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George Barnes (musician)

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George Warren Barnes (July 17, 1921 – September 5, 1977) was an American swing jazz guitarist who played the first electric guitar in 1931. [1]

69 relations: A Face in the Crowd (film), Bebop, Big Bill Broonzy, Bimbo's 365 Club, Blind John Davis, Blues, Bob Dunn (musician), Bucky Pizzarelli, Bud Freeman, Call and response, Carl Kress, Chiaroscuro Records, Concord Jazz, Concord, California, Connie Francis, Curtis Jones (pianist), David Grisman, Decca Records, Dick Hyman, Dorothy Collins, Eddie Durham, Hank Jones, Hindsight Record Company, I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, Jackie Wilson, Jazz, Jazz Gillum, Jim Ferguson, Jim Hall (musician), Joe Pass, Joe Venuti, Lap steel guitar, Lester Melrose, Lipstick on Your Collar (song), Lonely Teardrops, Luci Baines Johnson, Mercury Records, Merline Johnson, Milt Gabler, Milton Brown, Music Minus One, Night Time Is the Right Time, Okeh Records, Patsy Cline, Peermusic, Pickup (music technology), Pop music, Prentice Hall, Ralph Sutton, ..., Raymond Scott, RCA Records, Rhythm and blues, Rock music, Ruby Braff, Session musician, Shake 'Em On Down, South Chicago Heights, Illinois, Stash Records, Swing music, The Clay Cole Show, The Coasters, The Drifters, This Magic Moment, Tony Bennett, United Artists Records, Washboard Sam, Watusi (dance), Your Hit Parade. Expand index (19 more) »

A Face in the Crowd (film)

A Face in the Crowd is a 1957 American drama film starring Andy Griffith (in his film debut), Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau, directed by Elia Kazan.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley, June 26, 1903 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Bimbo's 365 Club

Bimbo's 365 Club, also known as Bimbo's 365, is an entertainment club located at 1025 Columbus Avenue in San Francisco.

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Blind John Davis

Blind John Davis (December 7, 1913 – October 12, 1985) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bob Dunn (musician)

Robert Lee "Bob" Dunn (February 5, 1908 – May 27, 1971) was an American jazz trombonist and a pioneer Western swing steel guitarist.

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Bucky Pizzarelli

John Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli (born January 9, 1926) is an American jazz guitarist.

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Bud Freeman

Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (April 13, 1906 – March 15, 1991) was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet.

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Call and response

Call and response is a form of interaction between a speaker and an audience in which the speaker's statements ("calls") are punctuated by responses from the listeners.

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Carl Kress

Carl Kress (October 20, 1907 – June 10, 1965) was an American jazz guitarist.

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Chiaroscuro Records

Chiaroscuro Records is a jazz record company and label founded by Hank O'Neal in 1970.

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Concord Jazz

Concord Jazz is a record company and label created in 1973 by Carl Jefferson, the founder of Concord Records and former owner of Jefferson Motors Lincoln Mercury dealership in Concord, CA.

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Concord, California

Concord is the largest city in Contra Costa County, California.

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Connie Francis

Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, December 12, 1937) is an American pop singer and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Curtis Jones (pianist)

Curtis Jones (August 18, 1906 – September 11, 1971) was an American blues pianist.

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David Grisman

David Grisman (born March 23, 1945) is an American mandolinist.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Dick Hyman

Richard Hyman (born March 8, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Dorothy Collins

Dorothy Collins (born Marjorie Chandler, November 18, 1926 – July 21, 1994) was a Canadian/American singer, actress, and recording artist.

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Eddie Durham

Eddie Durham (19 August 1906 – 6 March 1987) was an American musician who pioneered the use of the electric guitar in jazz.

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Hank Jones

Henry "Hank" Jones Jr. (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer.

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Hindsight Record Company

Hindsight Records is an American record company founded by Wally Heider.

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I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me

"I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" is a 1926 popular song composed by Jimmy McHugh, with lyrics by Clarence Gaskill.

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I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" is a popular American song which debuted in 1918 and was first published in 1919.

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Jackie Wilson

Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American soul singer and performer.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz Gillum

William McKinley "Jazz" Gillum (September 11, 1902 or 1904 – March 29, 1966) was an American blues harmonica player.

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Jim Ferguson

James Edwin Ferguson (born December 23, 1948) is an American guitarist, composer, journalist, and educator.

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Jim Hall (musician)

James Stanley Hall (December 4, 1930 – December 10, 2013) was an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger.

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Joe Pass

Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua; January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist of Sicilian descent.

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Joe Venuti

Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti (possibly September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist.

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Lap steel guitar

The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar which is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position on the performer’s lap or otherwise supported.

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Lester Melrose

Lester Melrose (December 14, 1891 – April 12, 1968) was one of the first American producers of blues records.

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Lipstick on Your Collar (song)

"Lipstick on Your Collar" is a song written by Edna Lewis (lyrics) and George Goehring (music) which was a 1959 hit single for Connie Francis.

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Lonely Teardrops

"Lonely Teardrops" is a song recorded and released as a single in 1958 by R&B, Soul, and Rock n Roll singer Jackie Wilson on the Brunswick label.

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Luci Baines Johnson

Luci Baines Johnson Turpin (born July 2, 1947) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Merline Johnson

Merline Johnson (born c. 1912 or 1918, date of death unknown) was an African-American blues singer in the 1930s and 1940s, billed as "The Yas Yas Girl".

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Milt Gabler

Milton "Milt" Gabler (May 20, 1911 – July 20, 2001) was an American record producer, responsible for many innovations in the recording industry of the 20th century.

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Milton Brown

Milton Brown (September 7, 1903 – April 18, 1936) was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing.

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Music Minus One

Music Minus One (commonly abbreviated as MMO) is a music production and recording company in Westchester, New York.

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Night Time Is the Right Time

"Night Time Is the Right Time" or "The Right Time" is a rhythm and blues song recorded by American musician Nappy Brown in 1957.

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Okeh Records

Okeh Records is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918.

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Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley; September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American country music singer and part of the Nashville sound during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Peermusic

Peermusic is a United States-based independent music publisher.

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Pickup (music technology)

A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall is a major educational publisher owned by Pearson plc.

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Ralph Sutton

Ralph Earl Sutton (November 4, 1922 – December 30, 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Hamburg, Missouri.

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Raymond Scott

Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow, September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994) was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Ruby Braff

Reuben "Ruby" Braff (March 16, 1927 – February 9, 2003) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Shake 'Em On Down

"Shake 'Em On Down" is a Delta blues song by American musician Bukka White.

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South Chicago Heights, Illinois

South Chicago Heights is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Stash Records

Stash Records was an American independent jazz record label based in New York City that flourished from 1975 through the late 1990s.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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The Clay Cole Show

The Clay Cole Show (1959–1968) was a rock music television show based in New York City, hosted by Clay Cole.

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The Coasters

The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group who had a string of hits in the late 1950s.

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The Drifters

The Drifters are a long-lasting American doo-wop and R&B/soul vocal group.

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This Magic Moment

"This Magic Moment" is a song composed by lyricist Doc Pomus and pianist Mort Shuman, and is one of their best-known songs.

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Tony Bennett

Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz.

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United Artists Records

United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 to issue movie soundtracks.

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Washboard Sam

Robert Clifford Brown (July 15, 1910 – November 6, 1966), known professionally as Washboard Sam, was an American blues musician and singer.

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Watusi (dance)

The Watusi is a solo dance that enjoyed brief popularity during the early 1960s.

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Your Hit Parade

Your Hit Parade is an American radio and television music program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1953 on radio, and seen from 1950 to 1959 on television.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Barnes_(musician)

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