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Gus Elen
633 listeners
Ernest Augustus Elen (22 July 1862 – 17 February 1940) was an English music hall singer and comedian. He achieved success from 1891, performing…
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The Poni-Tails
81,397 listeners
The Poni-Tails
The wispy innocence of the Poni-Tails' harmony has been heard on oldies radio for over thirty years thanks to one timely hit "Born…
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Luis Mariano
26,523 listeners
Luis Mariano was born in 1914 in Irun, Spain. His family ran away from the Spanish civil war and settled in Bordeaux, France for a while. He started…
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Berthe Sylva
17,037 listeners
Billed as the greatest of the Depression-era chanteuses, Sylva certainly had a strong, authoritative air about her -- not strident or overstated,…
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Στράτος Διονυσίου
5,883 listeners
Dionysiou was born in Nigrita, Serres prefecture, to Asia Minor refugees Angelos and Stasa Dionysiou. At age 13, he lost his father. These early…
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Danai
7,893 listeners
Danai Stratigopoulou (Δανάη Στρατηγοπούλου) (8 February 1913 - 18 January 2009) was a Greek singer, writer, and university academic. She acquired…
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Tolis Voskopoulos
5,565 listeners
Tolis Voskopoulos (Greek: Τόλης Βοσκόπουλος) (born 26 July 1940 Kokkinia, Piraeus) is one of the legends of modern Greek music. He starred in…
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Ted Lewis
10,253 listeners
Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis (June 6, 1890 – August 25, 1971), was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and…
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Diahann Carroll
9,118 listeners
Diahann Carroll (Carol Diahann Johnson, The Bronx, New York, USA, July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer and model. She…
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Manolis Aggelopoulos
3,391 listeners
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Manolis Angelopoulos
Greek Laïkó singer of Romani origin.
Born 8 April 1939 in Kavala, Greece. Died 2 April 1989 in… -
Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
7,039 listeners
One of the finest musicians to emerge from the sleepy locale of Denton, TX (later the home of the eclectic polka band Brave Combo as well as the…
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Jessie Matthews
2,607 listeners
Jessie Matthews, OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1930s, whose career continued into the…
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Doc Pomus
3,760 listeners
Born Jerome Solon Felder in Brooklyn, New York of Jewish heritage, he became a fan of the blues after hearing Big Joe Turner on record. He had…
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John Henry Barbee
3,504 listeners
John Henry Barbee (November 14, 1905 – November 3, 1964) was an American blues singer and guitarist.
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Harry Champion
2,143 listeners
William Crump (April 17, 1865 – January 14, 1942), better known by the stage name Harry Champion, was a famous British music hall composer and star.…
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Georges Thill
3,372 listeners
Georges Thill (14 December 1897 – 17 October 1984) was a French opera singer, often considered to be his country's greatest lyric-dramatic tenor.…
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Buddy Boy Hawkins
1,892 listeners
Information about Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins remains quite fragmentary, but there does seem to be a consensus that he was probably born in…