BIRTHDAYS
1914
"Cousin Jody" (né James Clell Summey)
C&W Vocals/Dobro/Steel Guitar/Comedy
(Near) Sevierville, TN, USA, d. 1976.
né: James Summey. C&W star Roy Acuff, in his book 'Roy Acuff's Nashville', described 'Cousin Jody' as being "one mean Dobro Guitar player."
1890
Carlos Gardel
vocals (Tango)
b. Toulouse, France
d. June 24, 1935, Medellin, Colombia.
(airplane accident)
nee: Charles Romuald Gardel.
Carlos was (is) perhaps the most revered Argentine singer of Tangos and Milongas, His fans called him "El Zorzal Criollo, the songbird of Buenos Aires," He invented the "tango song", thus making the previously considered vulgar Tango music and dance not only acceptable, but desirable. He has become a legendary hero of the Tango. When he died in a tragic aeroplane take-off accident, millions around the U.S.A. and Latin America mourned his passing. (One woman in Havana, Cuba, even committed suicide.) Today, there is a famous Argentine saying: "He sings better every day." Sixty five years after his demise, a fiercly devoted following keeps his legend alive by playing his music every day.
WIKI BIO:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Gardel
The story of Carlos Gardel and Tango song:
www.gardelweb.com/index-english.htm
YouTube - carlos gardel:
www.youtube.com/watch
1915
Dollie Good, C&W vocals
b. Mount Carmel, IL, USA.
née: Dorothy Goad.
Member: "Girls of the Golden West"
1920
Eddie Johnson, tenor sax
b. Napoleonville, LA, USA
hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/johnson.html
1923
Irving "Marky" Marowitz, Trumpet
b. Washington, DC, USA
d. Nov. 11, 1986.
Played with 1942-'43 Chas. Spivak; '43-'44 w/ Jimmy Dorsey; '44-'45 w/Boyd Raeburn; '46, and in '48-'49 w/Woody Herman; '46-'47 w/Buddy Rich. Then Freelanced in New York and in Washington, DC, USA.
MORE:
www.answers.com/topic/irwi...y-markowitz
1921
Rita Moreno
actress/dancer/vocals
b. Humacao, Puerto Rico.
née: Rosita Dolores Alverio.
Rita has the unique distinction of being listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the first performer to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, and a Grammy. She married Lenny Gordon in June 18, 1965, and they stayed married. After her films, Rita continued her career vocalizing in New York club and hotels - most notably the Hotel Algonquin.
1893
Bat Mosly, Drums
b. Algiers, LA, USA.
d. 1965
1916
Perez Prado
Piano/Composer
b. Matanzas, Cuba
d. Sept. 14, 1989.
né: Damaso Perez Prado.
Biggest hit record: "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White".
Wiiki Bio:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dámaso_Pérez_Prado
Perez Prado and Mambomania:
www.laventure.net/tourist/prez_bio.htm
Perez Prado on Space Age Pop:
www.spaceagepop.com/prado.htm
Perez Prado on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
1906
Jack Purvis, Trumpet
b. Kokomo, IN, USA.
d. March 30, 1962
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Purvis
Jack Purvis (December 11, 1906 – March 30, 1962) was an American jazz musician.
Purvis was best known as a trumpet player and the composer of Dismal Dan and Down Georgia Way. He was one of the earliest trumpeters to incorporate the innovations pioneered by Louis Armstrong in the late 1920s. He also played trombone and on occasion a number of other instruments professionally (including harp).
Early years
John "Jack" Purvis was born in Kokomo, Indiana on December 11, 1906 to Sanford B. Purvis, a real estate agent and his wife Nettie (Jackson) Purvis. (He has a living brother J.Richard Lowry who is 96 years old and lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina. He has played the trumpet and the bass fiddle in many bands. He is still playing the bass fiddle for function around Hendersonville. The song Poor Richard was written for him. He also had a daughter who was a disc jockey.) He learned trumpet and trombone as a boy and by the time he attended high school he was playing in the school band. As early as 1921 he was playing locally in dance bands.
After high school he worked in his home state for a time then went to Lexington, Kentucky where he played with the Original Kentucky Night Hawks. Around this time he learned to fly planes. In 1926 he was with Bud Rice and toured New England. He then worked the remainder of 1926 and the beginning of 1927 with Whitey Kaufman's Original Pennsylvanians. For a short time he played trombone with Hal Kemp and by July 1928 he traveled to France with George Carhart's band. It is reported that he had an early brush with the law when he cheated a tourist out of his travelers checks and was forced to leave the band and flee France.
When returning in the United States in 1929 he again joined Hal Kemp's band this time playing trumpet. From 1929 to 1930 Purvis recored with Kemp, Smith Ballew, Ted Wallace, Rube Bloom, the California Ramblers, Roy Wilson's Georgia Crackers, and the Carolina Club Orchestra. On December 17, 1929 Purvis led his own recording groups using Hal Kemp's rhythm section to produce Copyin' Louis, and Mental Strain at Dawn.
The 1930s
In 1930, Purvis led a couple of racially mixed recording sessions including the likes of J.C. Higginbotham, and Adrian Rollini. One of these sessions was organized by Adrian Rollini and OKeh A & R man, Bob Stephens. After leaving Hal Kemps' employ for good Purvis found work with the California Ramblers. He also worked with the Dorsey Brothers and played fourth trumpet with Fletcher Henderson.
From 1931 to 1932 he played with a few radio orchestras and work with Fred Waring. In 1933 he toured the South with Charlie Barnet. He even talked his way into a job with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra playing The Carnival of Venice. During this time he also worked in Texas as a pilot perhaps smuggling illegal goods out of Mexico.
He moved to California and was successful with radio broadcasting work.[ In Los Angeles, Purvis worked for the George Stall Orchestra as a writer and even worked for Warner Bros. Records arranging. He composed Legends of Haiti for a one hundred and ten piece orchestra. Afterwards he found work in San Francisco as a chef. At the end of 1935 he joined Frank Froeba's Swing Band in New York.These 1935 recordings with Froeba were the end of Purvis' recording career. He played a couple of weeks with Joe Haymes' orchestra and then disappears from history for a couple of years. It is speculated that he worked as a ships cook on a freighter at the time.
He was arrested in Texas in June 1937, while working as a cook, for his involvement in a robbery in El Paso, Texas. He was tried and convicted and sentenced to jail time in Huntsville Prison. While in prison he directed the Rhythmic Swingsters, the prison band and also played piano with them. The band regularly broadcast on radio station WBAP in 1938.
Later life
In August of 1940, Purvis was conditionally pardoned from prison, but he quickly broke his parole and was sent back to prison for six more years. Some sources claim he did this deliberately because he missed the prison band.
On September 30, 1946 Purvis was released from prison one last time. He had a wild reputation and is said to have set hotel rooms on fire. He seldom stuck with one band for very long and was known to hit the streets as a busker. From this time onward he worked at non-musical careers which included working as a chef, an aviator in Florida, a carpenter, an radio repair-man in San Francisco. At sometime in his checkered life he was also a mercenary in South America.
Purvis is supposed to have killed himself in San Francisco, California on March 30, 1962, however stories persist that a man who looked like Jack Purvis showed up at a band date by cornetist Jack Goodwin and the two men had a long talk about his life on two occasions in 1968.
1903
Anker Skjoldborg
Tenor Sax/Leader
b. Copenhagen, Denmark
d. April 3, 1986
1909
Arthur Q. Smith
C&W songwriter
b. Griffin, GA, USA.
né: "James Arthur Pickett"
1926
Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton
Blues vocals
b. Montgomery, AL, USA.
Notable Events occuring
on this date include:
1949.
"Fiddlin'" John Carson, fiddle
died in Atlanta, GA, USA.
Age: 81
1963.
Luis Russell, piano/leader
died in New York, NY, USA.
Age: 61
1964.
Sam Cooke, guitar/songwriter/producer
died in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Age: 33
1984.
Charles Buchanan, manager
(NY Savoy Ballroom)
Age: 86
1992.
Andy Kirk, leader
died in New York (Harlem), NY, USA.
Age: 94
Songs Recorded/Released
on this date include:
1954 Hearts Of Stone, - Fontane Sisters
1954 Melody Of Love, - Billy Vaughn
1914
"Cousin Jody" (né James Clell Summey)
C&W Vocals/Dobro/Steel Guitar/Comedy
(Near) Sevierville, TN, USA, d. 1976.
né: James Summey. C&W star Roy Acuff, in his book 'Roy Acuff's Nashville', described 'Cousin Jody' as being "one mean Dobro Guitar player."
1890
Carlos Gardel
vocals (Tango)
b. Toulouse, France
d. June 24, 1935, Medellin, Colombia.
(airplane accident)
nee: Charles Romuald Gardel.
Carlos was (is) perhaps the most revered Argentine singer of Tangos and Milongas, His fans called him "El Zorzal Criollo, the songbird of Buenos Aires," He invented the "tango song", thus making the previously considered vulgar Tango music and dance not only acceptable, but desirable. He has become a legendary hero of the Tango. When he died in a tragic aeroplane take-off accident, millions around the U.S.A. and Latin America mourned his passing. (One woman in Havana, Cuba, even committed suicide.) Today, there is a famous Argentine saying: "He sings better every day." Sixty five years after his demise, a fiercly devoted following keeps his legend alive by playing his music every day.
WIKI BIO:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Gardel
The story of Carlos Gardel and Tango song:
www.gardelweb.com/index-english.htm
YouTube - carlos gardel:
www.youtube.com/watch
1915
Dollie Good, C&W vocals
b. Mount Carmel, IL, USA.
née: Dorothy Goad.
Member: "Girls of the Golden West"
1920
Eddie Johnson, tenor sax
b. Napoleonville, LA, USA
hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/johnson.html
1923
Irving "Marky" Marowitz, Trumpet
b. Washington, DC, USA
d. Nov. 11, 1986.
Played with 1942-'43 Chas. Spivak; '43-'44 w/ Jimmy Dorsey; '44-'45 w/Boyd Raeburn; '46, and in '48-'49 w/Woody Herman; '46-'47 w/Buddy Rich. Then Freelanced in New York and in Washington, DC, USA.
MORE:
www.answers.com/topic/irwi...y-markowitz
1921
Rita Moreno
actress/dancer/vocals
b. Humacao, Puerto Rico.
née: Rosita Dolores Alverio.
Rita has the unique distinction of being listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the first performer to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, and a Grammy. She married Lenny Gordon in June 18, 1965, and they stayed married. After her films, Rita continued her career vocalizing in New York club and hotels - most notably the Hotel Algonquin.
1893
Bat Mosly, Drums
b. Algiers, LA, USA.
d. 1965
1916
Perez Prado
Piano/Composer
b. Matanzas, Cuba
d. Sept. 14, 1989.
né: Damaso Perez Prado.
Biggest hit record: "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White".
Wiiki Bio:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dámaso_Pérez_Prado
Perez Prado and Mambomania:
www.laventure.net/tourist/prez_bio.htm
Perez Prado on Space Age Pop:
www.spaceagepop.com/prado.htm
Perez Prado on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
1906
Jack Purvis, Trumpet
b. Kokomo, IN, USA.
d. March 30, 1962
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Purvis
Jack Purvis (December 11, 1906 – March 30, 1962) was an American jazz musician.
Purvis was best known as a trumpet player and the composer of Dismal Dan and Down Georgia Way. He was one of the earliest trumpeters to incorporate the innovations pioneered by Louis Armstrong in the late 1920s. He also played trombone and on occasion a number of other instruments professionally (including harp).
Early years
John "Jack" Purvis was born in Kokomo, Indiana on December 11, 1906 to Sanford B. Purvis, a real estate agent and his wife Nettie (Jackson) Purvis. (He has a living brother J.Richard Lowry who is 96 years old and lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina. He has played the trumpet and the bass fiddle in many bands. He is still playing the bass fiddle for function around Hendersonville. The song Poor Richard was written for him. He also had a daughter who was a disc jockey.) He learned trumpet and trombone as a boy and by the time he attended high school he was playing in the school band. As early as 1921 he was playing locally in dance bands.
After high school he worked in his home state for a time then went to Lexington, Kentucky where he played with the Original Kentucky Night Hawks. Around this time he learned to fly planes. In 1926 he was with Bud Rice and toured New England. He then worked the remainder of 1926 and the beginning of 1927 with Whitey Kaufman's Original Pennsylvanians. For a short time he played trombone with Hal Kemp and by July 1928 he traveled to France with George Carhart's band. It is reported that he had an early brush with the law when he cheated a tourist out of his travelers checks and was forced to leave the band and flee France.
When returning in the United States in 1929 he again joined Hal Kemp's band this time playing trumpet. From 1929 to 1930 Purvis recored with Kemp, Smith Ballew, Ted Wallace, Rube Bloom, the California Ramblers, Roy Wilson's Georgia Crackers, and the Carolina Club Orchestra. On December 17, 1929 Purvis led his own recording groups using Hal Kemp's rhythm section to produce Copyin' Louis, and Mental Strain at Dawn.
The 1930s
In 1930, Purvis led a couple of racially mixed recording sessions including the likes of J.C. Higginbotham, and Adrian Rollini. One of these sessions was organized by Adrian Rollini and OKeh A & R man, Bob Stephens. After leaving Hal Kemps' employ for good Purvis found work with the California Ramblers. He also worked with the Dorsey Brothers and played fourth trumpet with Fletcher Henderson.
From 1931 to 1932 he played with a few radio orchestras and work with Fred Waring. In 1933 he toured the South with Charlie Barnet. He even talked his way into a job with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra playing The Carnival of Venice. During this time he also worked in Texas as a pilot perhaps smuggling illegal goods out of Mexico.
He moved to California and was successful with radio broadcasting work.[ In Los Angeles, Purvis worked for the George Stall Orchestra as a writer and even worked for Warner Bros. Records arranging. He composed Legends of Haiti for a one hundred and ten piece orchestra. Afterwards he found work in San Francisco as a chef. At the end of 1935 he joined Frank Froeba's Swing Band in New York.These 1935 recordings with Froeba were the end of Purvis' recording career. He played a couple of weeks with Joe Haymes' orchestra and then disappears from history for a couple of years. It is speculated that he worked as a ships cook on a freighter at the time.
He was arrested in Texas in June 1937, while working as a cook, for his involvement in a robbery in El Paso, Texas. He was tried and convicted and sentenced to jail time in Huntsville Prison. While in prison he directed the Rhythmic Swingsters, the prison band and also played piano with them. The band regularly broadcast on radio station WBAP in 1938.
Later life
In August of 1940, Purvis was conditionally pardoned from prison, but he quickly broke his parole and was sent back to prison for six more years. Some sources claim he did this deliberately because he missed the prison band.
On September 30, 1946 Purvis was released from prison one last time. He had a wild reputation and is said to have set hotel rooms on fire. He seldom stuck with one band for very long and was known to hit the streets as a busker. From this time onward he worked at non-musical careers which included working as a chef, an aviator in Florida, a carpenter, an radio repair-man in San Francisco. At sometime in his checkered life he was also a mercenary in South America.
Purvis is supposed to have killed himself in San Francisco, California on March 30, 1962, however stories persist that a man who looked like Jack Purvis showed up at a band date by cornetist Jack Goodwin and the two men had a long talk about his life on two occasions in 1968.
1903
Anker Skjoldborg
Tenor Sax/Leader
b. Copenhagen, Denmark
d. April 3, 1986
1909
Arthur Q. Smith
C&W songwriter
b. Griffin, GA, USA.
né: "James Arthur Pickett"
1926
Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton
Blues vocals
b. Montgomery, AL, USA.
Notable Events occuring
on this date include:
1949.
"Fiddlin'" John Carson, fiddle
died in Atlanta, GA, USA.
Age: 81
1963.
Luis Russell, piano/leader
died in New York, NY, USA.
Age: 61
1964.
Sam Cooke, guitar/songwriter/producer
died in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Age: 33
1984.
Charles Buchanan, manager
(NY Savoy Ballroom)
Age: 86
1992.
Andy Kirk, leader
died in New York (Harlem), NY, USA.
Age: 94
Songs Recorded/Released
on this date include:
1954 Hearts Of Stone, - Fontane Sisters
1954 Melody Of Love, - Billy Vaughn
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