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Vocalion Records
Vocalion Records was a record label active for many years in the United States and in the United Kingdom.
Vocalion was founded in 1916 by the Aeolian Piano Company of New York City, which introduced a retail line of phonographs at the same time. The fledgling label first issued single-sided....
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Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell (May 5, 1898 (sometimes reported as 1901 or 1903) – August 19, 1959) was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a twelve-string finger picking Piedmont blues guitarist, and recorded 149 songs...
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- May 5, 1901
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1959 (age 58 years)
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Benny Goodman
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman".
In the mid-1930s, Goodman led...
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- May 30, 1909
Date of death:
- Jun 13, 1986 (age 77 years)
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Nick LaRocca
Dominic James "Nick" La Rocca (April 11, 1889 in New Orleans, Louisiana – February 22, 1961 in New Orleans) was an early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. According to La Rocca himself, he was "The...
Date of birth:
- Apr 11, 1889
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 1961 (age 71 years)
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Memphis Minnie
Memphis Minnie (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973) was an American blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She was the only female blues artist who matched her male contemporaries as both a singer and an instrumentalist.
Born Lizzie Douglas in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 3, 1897
Date of death:
- Aug 6, 1973 (age 76 years)
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Big Bill Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy (26 June 1898 – 14 August 1958) was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played Country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully...
Date of birth:
- Jun 26, 1898
Date of death:
- Aug 14, 1958 (age 60 years)
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Benny Carter
Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 - July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other...
Date of birth:
- Aug 8, 1907
Date of death:
- Jul 12, 2003 (age 95 years)
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Albert Ammons
Albert Ammons (September 23, 1907 — December 2, 1949) was an American pianist. Ammons was a player of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style that swept the United States from the late 1930s into the mid 1940s.
Born Albert C. Ammons in Chicago, Illinois,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1907
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1949 (age 42 years)
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Pinetop Smith
Clarence Smith, better known as Pinetop Smith or Pine Top Smith (11 June 1904 - 15 March 1929) was an influential American boogie-woogie style blues pianist. He is a 1991 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Smith was born in Troy, Alabama and...
Date of birth:
- Jun 11, 1904
Date of death:
- Mar 15, 1929 (age 24 years)
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Sons of the Pioneers
The Sons of the Pioneers is an American cowboy singing group founded in 1933 by Leonard Slye (better known by his later screen name, Roy Rogers), with Tim Spencer and Bob Nolan. They were joined by Hugh Farr (fiddle/bass vocals) in 1934, Karl Farr ...
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- 1933
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Charlie Patton
Charlie Patton, better known as Charley Patton (May 1, 1891 – April 28, 1934) is best known as an American Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the "Father of Delta Blues" and therefore one of the oldest known figures of American...
Date of birth:
- May 1, 1891
Date of death:
- Apr 28, 1934 (age 43 years)
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Big Walter Horton
Walter Horton, better known as Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton, (April 6, 1917 – December 8, 1981) was an American blues harmonica player. A quiet, unassuming and essentially shy man, Horton is remembered as one of the most influential...
Date of birth:
- Apr 6, 1918
Date of death:
- Dec 8, 1981 (age 63 years)
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Victoria Spivey
Victoria Spivey (October 15, 1906 - October 3, 1976) was an American blues singer and songwriter.
She was born Victoria Regina Spivey in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Grant and Addie (Smith) Spivey. Her father was a part-time musician and a...
Date of birth:
- Oct 15, 1906
Date of death:
- Oct 3, 1976 (age 70 years)
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Bumble Bee Slim
Amos Easton (May 7, 1905 — June 8, 1968), better known by the stage name Bumble Bee Slim, was a best-selling blues artist in the 1930s.
Easton was born in Brunswick, Georgia. Around 1920 he left home to join the Ringling Brothers' circus before...
Date of birth:
- May 7, 1905
Date of death:
- Jun 8, 1968 (age 63 years)
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Scrapper Blackwell
Scrapper Blackwell (February 21, 1903 – October 7, 1962) was an American blues guitarist and singer; best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was an acoustic single-note picker in the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 21, 1903
Date of death:
- Oct 7, 1962 (age 59 years)
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Cripple Clarence Lofton
Cripple Clarence Lofton (March 28, 1887 - January 9, 1957), born Albert Clemens in Kingsport, Tennessee, was a noted boogie-woogie pianist and singer.
Though Lofton was born with a limp (from which he derived his stage name), he actually started his...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1887
Date of death:
- Jan 9, 1957 (age 69 years)
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Dennis McGee
Dennis (Denus) McGee (born January 26, 1893, Eunice, Louisiana – October 3, 1989) was one of the earliest recorded Cajun Musicians.
A fiddle player, he recorded and performed with black Creole accordionist and vocalist Amédé Ardoin, with...
Date of birth:
- Jan 26, 1893
Date of death:
- Oct 3, 1989 (age 96 years)
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Bob Wills
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing and called the King of Western...
Date of birth:
- Mar 6, 1905
Date of death:
- May 13, 1975 (age 70 years)
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Big Joe Turner
Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr., May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." Although he came...
Date of birth:
- May 18, 1911
Date of death:
- Nov 24, 1985 (age 74 years)
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Blind John Davis
Blind John Davis (December 7, 1913 — October 12, 1985) was an African American, blues, jazz and boogie woogie pianist and singer.
He was born John Henry Davis in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the son of John Wesley Davis, a sawmill worker and mother,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1913
Date of death:
- Oct 12, 1985 (age 71 years)
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Otto Gray and his Oklahoma Cowboys
Otto Gray and his Oklahoma Cowboys were the first nationally famous cowboy band, and the first cowboy band to appear on the cover of Billboard (June 6, 1931).
Formed in Ripley, Oklahoma in the early 1920s, the band was first known as McGinty's...
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Johnny Long
Johnny Long (September 12, 1914 (disputed) – October 31, 1972) was an American violinist and bandleader, known as "The Man Who's Long on Music". He was raised on a farm in Newell, North Carolina, currently a subdivision of Charlotte. He started...
Date of birth:
- 1914
Date of death:
- 1972 (age 58 years)
