For July, The Year of Tony Bennett honors one of America’s greatest Broadway songwriters, Richard Rodgers. Rodgers career as a Broadway composer spanned six decades, starting in 1919 and ending in 1979, with scores for 43 musicals. He is also one of the rare artists to achieve the EGOT:...
i don’t have favorite holiday albums, but i love holiday songs by frank sinatra and i also love the song “this christmas.” i almost covered it for my holiday song release. but when you look it up, it feels like everyone has done it. i wanted to do something different, so i...
Payne's path to success began when he was just 14 years old, when he first auditioned for the UK version of"The X Factor." Though his snap-filled rendition ofFrank Sinatra's "Fly Me To the Moon"moved him past the audition round, Payne was ultimately told by judge Simon Cowell to co...
Mike Pinera, the singer and guitarist who wrote the 1970 hit “Ride Captain Ride” for his band Blues Image, died in November at the age of 76. Blues Image opened for a variety of rock acts, including Cream, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin,...
goes into the Harry Owens Leper Colony Trust, to be spent for the good of all the colony. Owens, owner of Royal Music, is an advisor of the trust, along with his brother Frank and Miss Helen, head nurse at the leper colony. Owens flew to the island on January 8th to study the nee...
WHEN stars such as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Otis Redding, Mel Torm, Rod Stewart and Frankie Laine - to name but a few - are covering your songs, you know you're getting it right.But not many people would guess that the songwriter we're talking about came from Jesmond, in ...
composer with over 35 years’ experience in the music business. He began his career as a jazz pianist and toured with many groups, including big band legendLes BrownandThe Hues Corporation(Rock The Boat). During that time he accompanied such artists asFrank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., andMel...
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Frank Tewkesbury, Evening Standard, Hulton Archive, Getty Images Steve Harley Steve Harley, best known as the vocalist for the British glam rock group Cockney Rebel, died in March at the age of 73. Among the band's hits was "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)," "Judy Teen," "Mr....
Tom Fowler, the bassist best known for playing with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention as well as Ray Charles, died in July at the age of 73. Fowler made his recording debut with Zappa on 1973'sOver-Nite Sensationand appeared on several more of his albums throughout the '70s, up...