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1 hour ago · While most discussion of hockey history focuses on the 1980s until present day, women have been playing hockey since the 1800s, and from 1915 to 1940, there were many notable stars of the game ...
5 days ago · Researcher Bob Eagle has identified Scott as being born January 1, 1911 in Louisiana and who died in Los Angeles on January 8 ,1948, aged 37. When he registered for the draft at Lake Charles on 16 October 1940, Beverly Scott gave his birth date as January 1, 1911 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.
1 day ago · Performers include: Ernie Ford, Kitty Wells, Georgie Auld, Nat King Cole, Carol Bruce, Billy Vaughn and Liberace. Some of the hits from 100 years ago. Songs include: Dardanella, You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet, Till We Meet Again, Take Me to the Land of Jazz, A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody and I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles.
5 days ago · Swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music, in which some virtuoso soloists became as famous as the band leaders. Key figures in developing the "big" jazz band included bandleaders and arrangers Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller, and Artie Shaw.
1 day ago · Recognisable by his plaintive, crying, singing style and “broken” voice, SLEEPY JOHN ESTES was one of the great Country Blues pioneers. Estes recorded a memorable body of work, much of it during the 1930s, which earned him a mighty reputation, always retaining a traditional, down-home sound despite recording variously in Memphis, Chicago and New York.
5 days ago · When the Blues were Black. Alan Earls Editor. Above, Mississippi Fred McDowell, a farmer by day for most of his life and a talented blues musician on weekends. He lived into the 1970s, long enough to be 'discovered' and lionized by white audiences in the US and Europe. Long before white musicians or rock acts like the Rolling Stones, blues ...
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5 days ago · Bring me my boots and shoes. You can hang back or fight your best on the front line. Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues. It is a song of a man at the end who is saying that no matter what you do, there is nothing you can achieve. You are what you are; the world is simply what it is. Sometimes nobody wants what you got.
