by Bman | Mar 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Big Tyme Presents The Swingers Ball 16 - The Masquerade Ball At The Famed Willowbrook Ballroom - Saturday, March 30 (Willow Springs, Illinois) - Big Tyme presents The Swingers Ball 16 - The Masquerade Ball, featuring live swing...
by Bman | Mar 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Larry "Big Twist" Nolan heartily epitomized the image "300 pounds of heavenly joy." Based in Chicago, the huge singer and his trusty R&B band, the Mellow Fellows, were one of the hottest draws on the Midwestern college circuit during the 1980s with a slickly...
by Bman | Mar 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
George T. "Sonny" Cohn (March 14, 1925 β November 7, 2006) was an American jazz trumpeter. After working for fifteen years with Red Saunders (1945β1960), he went on to spend another 24 years in Count Basie's trumpet section (1960β1984). Cohn started playing in small...
by Bman | Mar 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Georgia White (March 9, 1903 β c.1980) was an African American blues singer, most prolific in the 1930s and 1940s. Little is known of her early life. By the late 1920s she was singing in clubs in Chicago, and she made her first recording, "When You're Smiling, the...
by Bman | Mar 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Laura Lee (born Laura Lee Newton, 9 March 1945, Chicago, Illinois) is an American soul and gospel singer and songwriter, most successful in the 1960s and 1970s and influential for her records which discussed and celebrated womenβs experience. Lee was born in Chicago,...
