.1869 ~ Sir Henry Joseph Wood was an English conductor and the creator of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, currently called the “BBC Proms”. He was a student at the Royal Academy of Music conservatoire and the oldest degree-granting music school in Britain. The Proms are an eight-week ...
Bing Crosby sang such hit songs as the ever-popular holiday classic "White Christmas." The beloved crooner was also a star of radio, movies and television.
WhenDer Binglemade his first recording (I’ve Got the Girlin 1926), what might have been termed popular music was a kaleidoscope of styles. It could be either opera (Enrico Caruso), stage and minstrel (Al Jolson), blues (Bessie Smith), jazz (Louis Armstrong), country (Vernon Dalhart),...
In mid-1931 Crosby left Arnheim to follow a solo career, which quickly took off with 16 recordings in the charts, three of which were number one. His first feature film appearance was in The Big Broadcast of 1932 and he starred in 20 more features during the 1930s. In the 1940s he ...
Irving Berlin, the author of "White Christmas," was so scandalized by Elvis's 1957 version of the song that he tried to get it banned from radio. Sorry, Irv. Instead,Elvis' Christmas Albumtopped theBillboardcharts for a month and went on to sell nearly 20 million copies in various editi...