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The Boswell Sisters

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The Boswell Sisters were a close harmony singing group, consisting of sisters Martha Boswell Lloyd (June 9, 1905 – July 2, 1958), Connee Boswell (original name Connie, December 3, 1907 – October 11, 1976), and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell (May 20, 1911 – November 12, 1988), noted for intricate harmonies and rhythmic experimentation. [1]

82 relations: Al Gallodoro, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Amy Pietz, Arthur Schutt, Benny Goodman, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (song), Billboard Hot 100, Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby Entertains, Birmingham, Alabama, Boardwalk Empire, Brunswick Records, Bunny Berigan, Cab Calloway, Carl Kress, CBS, Cheek to Cheek, Chink Martin, Clarence Williams (musician), Close and open harmony, Connee Boswell, Crazy Blues, Darktown Strutters' Ball, Decca Records, Dick McDonough, Dinah (song), Dixieland, Don Redman, Eddie Lang, Ella Fitzgerald, Forever Plaid, Fulton McGrath, Glenn Miller, I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store), I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter, Jane Pickens Langley, Joe Tarto, Joe Venuti, Joel Whitburn, Kansas City, Missouri, Leon Prima, Leon Roppolo, Louis Prima, Louisiana, Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, Mamie Smith, Manny Klein, Martha Boswell, Monk Hazel, Nappy Lamare, ..., New Orleans, New York City, Okeh Records, Pakistani Semi-classical music, Radio, Ragtime, Ray Bauduc, Raymond Burke (clarinetist), Red Nichols, Saint Louis Blues (song), San Diego, Santo Pecora, Sorelle Marinetti, The Andrews Sisters, The Big Broadcast, The Boswell Sisters, The Ditty Bops, The Dorsey Brothers, The Puppini Sisters, The Stolen Sweets, Three X Sisters, Tony Parenti, Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, Tulane University, United Service Organizations, Uptown New Orleans, Victor Talking Machine Company, Victor Young, Vocal Group Hall of Fame, Vocal jazz, Wingy Manone, You Oughta Be in Pictures. Expand index (32 more) »

Al Gallodoro

Alfred J. Gallodoro, (June 20, 1913 – October 4, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, who performed from the 1920s up until his death.

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Alexander's Ragtime Band

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a song by Irving Berlin.

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Amy Pietz

Amy Pietz (born March 6, 1969) is an American actress, known for her roles on television.

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Arthur Schutt

Arthur Schutt (Born Reading, Pennsylvania - November 21, 1902. Died San Francisco, California - January 28, 1965) was an American jazz pianist and arranger.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (song)

"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" is an American popular song published in 1932, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, and first recorded by Cab Calloway in 1931.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)Giddins 2001, pp.

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Bing Crosby Entertains

A weekly show which ran for two seasons during 1933-1935, it was to cement Bing Crosby’s reputation as a radio star.

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Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the seat of Jefferson County.

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Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter and broadcast on premium cable channel HBO.

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Brunswick Records

Brunswick Records is an American record label founded in 1916.

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Bunny Berigan

Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (November 2, 1908 – June 2, 1942) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader who rose to fame during the swing era, but whose career and influence were shortened by a losing battle with alcoholism that ended with his early death at age 33 from cirrhosis.

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Cab Calloway

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.

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Carl Kress

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

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Cheek to Cheek

"Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1935, for the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat (1935).

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Chink Martin

Martin Abraham, better known as Chink Martin (June 10, 1886, New Orleans - January 7, 1981, New Orleans) was an American jazz tubist.

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Clarence Williams (musician)

Clarence Williams (October 6, 1898 or October 8, 1893 – November 6, 1965) was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher.

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Close and open harmony

Close harmony is an arrangement of the notes of chords within a narrow range, usually notes that are no more than an octave apart.

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Connee Boswell

Constance Foore "Connee" Boswell (December 3, 1907 – October 11, 1976) was an American female vocalist born in Kansas City but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Crazy Blues

"Crazy Blues" is a song written by Perry Bradford.

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Darktown Strutters' Ball

Darktown Strutters' Ball is a popular song by Shelton Brooks, published in 1917.

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Decca Records

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

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Dick McDonough

Dick McDonough (July 30, 1904 – May 25, 1938) was an American jazz guitarist and banjoist.

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Dinah (song)

"Dinah" is a popular song published in 1925 and introduced by Ethel Waters at the Plantation Club on Broadway.

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Dixieland

Dixieland, sometimes referred to as hot jazz or traditional jazz, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century.

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Don Redman

Donald Matthew Redman (July 29, 1900 – November 30, 1964) was an American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader, and composer.

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Eddie Lang

Eddie Lang (October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) is known as the father of jazz guitar.

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.

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Forever Plaid

Forever Plaid is an Off-Broadway musical revue written by Stuart Ross, and first performed in New York in 1989 and now performed internationally.

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Fulton McGrath

Fulton "Fidgy" McGrath (December 6, 1907 – January 1, 1958) was an American jazz pianist and songwriter.

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Glenn Miller

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) The website for Arlington National Cemetery refers to Glenn Miller as "missing in action since Dec.

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I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)

"I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)" is a popular song.

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I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter

"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" is a 1935 popular song with music by Fred E. Ahlert and lyrics by Joe Young.

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Jane Pickens Langley

Jane Pickens Hoving (10 August 1908 – 21 February 1992)DeLong, Thomas A. (1996).

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Joe Tarto

Joe Tarto (February 22, 1902 - August 24, 1986) was an American jazz tubist and bassist.

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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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Joel Whitburn

Joel Carver Whitburn (born November 29, 1939) is an American author and music historian.

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Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Leon Prima

Leon Prima (July 28, 1907, New Orleans – 1985) was an American jazz trumpeter and the older brother of singer Louis Prima.

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Leon Roppolo

Leon Joseph Roppolo (March 16, 1902 – October 5, 1943) was a prominent early jazz clarinetist, best known for his playing with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.

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Louis Prima

Louis Leo Prima (December 7, 1910 – August 24, 1978) was an Italian American singer, actor, songwriter, bandleader, and trumpeter.

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Louisiana

Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Louisiana Music Hall of Fame

The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame (LMHOF) is an IRS certified 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization based in the state's capital of Baton Rouge, that seeks to honor and preserve Louisiana's rich music culture and heritage and to further educate its citizens and people worldwide about the state's unique role in contributing to American indigenous and popular music in the 20th century.

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Mamie Smith

Mamie Smith (née Robinson; May 26, c. 1883 – September 16, 1946) was an American vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actress.

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Manny Klein

Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (February 4, 1908 – May 31, 1994) was an American jazz trumpeter most associated with swing.

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Martha Boswell

Martha Boswell Lloyd (July 9, 1905 in Kansas City, Missouri – July 2, 1958 in Peekskill, New York) was the eldest of the vocal group the Boswell Sisters.

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Monk Hazel

Arthur Hazel (August 15, 1903, Harvey, Louisiana - March 5, 1968, New Orleans, Louisiana), better known as Monk Hazel, was a jazz drummer.

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Nappy Lamare

Joseph Hilton "Nappy" Lamare (June 14, 1905 – May 8, 1988) was an American jazz banjoist, guitarist, and vocalist.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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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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Pakistani Semi-classical music

In Pakistan, semi-classical music (or in Urdu: نیم کلاسیکی موسیقی; neem klaseeki moseeqi) was derived from classical music combined with Pakistani film music and was specifically created for TV viewers.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.

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Ragtime

Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918.

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Ray Bauduc

Ray Bauduc (June 18, 1906 – January 8, 1988) was a jazz drummer best known for his work with the Bob Crosby Orchestra and their band-within-a-band, the Bobcats, between 1935 and 1942.

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Raymond Burke (clarinetist)

Raymond Burke (6 June 1904 – 21 March 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist.

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Red Nichols

Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (May 8, 1905 – June 28, 1965) was an American jazz cornettist, composer, and jazz bandleader.

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Saint Louis Blues (song)

"Saint Louis Blues" is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914.

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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Santo Pecora

Santo Pecora (born Santo Pecoraro, March 21, 1902, New Orleans – May 29, 1984, New Orleans) was an American jazz trombonist known for his longtime association with the New Orleans jazz scene.

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Sorelle Marinetti

Sorelle Marinetti (the Marinetti sisters) is the name of an Italian swing singer trio starring three males singers in travesti fashion.

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The Andrews Sisters

The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras.

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The Big Broadcast

The Big Broadcast is a 1932 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bing Crosby, Stuart Erwin, and Leila Hyams.

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The Boswell Sisters

The Boswell Sisters were a close harmony singing group, consisting of sisters Martha Boswell Lloyd (June 9, 1905 – July 2, 1958), Connee Boswell (original name Connie, December 3, 1907 – October 11, 1976), and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell (May 20, 1911 – November 12, 1988), noted for intricate harmonies and rhythmic experimentation.

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The Ditty Bops

The Ditty Bops is an American band from Los Angeles, California.

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The Dorsey Brothers

The Dorsey Brothers were a studio group fronted by musicians Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.

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The Puppini Sisters

The Puppini Sisters are an English close harmony vocal trio composed of Italian-born singer Marcella Puppini and English singers Kate Mullins and Emma Smith. Although the three are not related, the name was chosen in tribute to The Andrews Sisters. Puppini first studied fashion design at Saint Martins School of Art, and later music at Trinity College of Music in London where she met Mullins and original member Rosanna Schura, who was later replaced by Stephanie O'Brien. After eight years with the group, O'Brien was replaced by Emma Smith. The trio are backed by a three-piece band featuring Martin Kolarides on guitar, Henrik Jensen on double bass and Peter Ibbetson on drums. Critic Arion Berger described them as part of "Retro's futuristic vanguard" and characterised their sound as "swing-punk". The group is associated with a burlesque revival.

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The Stolen Sweets

The Stolen Sweets are an American Jazz group from Portland, Oregon.

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Three X Sisters

The Three X Sisters were an American all-girl harmony singing trio, initially known as The Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce.

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Tony Parenti

Tony Parenti (6 August 1900 – 17 April 1972) was an American jazz clarinettist and saxophonist born in New Orleans, perhaps best known for his decades of work in New York City.

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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round is a 1934 American drama film with musical and comedic elements, directed by Benjamin Stoloff.

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Tulane University

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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United Service Organizations

The United Service Organizations Inc. (USO) is a nonprofit organization that provides live entertainment, such as comedians and musicians, and other programs to members of the United States Armed Forces and their families.

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Uptown New Orleans

Uptown is a section of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, on the east bank of the Mississippi River, encompassing a number of neighborhoods between the French Quarter and the Jefferson Parish line.

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Victor Talking Machine Company

The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American record company and phonograph manufacturer headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.

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Victor Young

Victor Young (August 8, 1900 – November 10, 1956)"Victor Young, Composer, Dies of Heart Attack", Oakland Tribune, November 12, 1956.

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Vocal Group Hall of Fame

The Vocal Group Hall of Fame (VGHF) was organized by Tony Butala, also the founder (and now only surviving original member) of the Lettermen, to honor outstanding vocal groups throughout the world.

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Vocal jazz

Vocal jazz or jazz singing is an instrumental approach to the voice, where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics, improvised or otherwise, or through scat singing; that is, the use of non-morphemic syllables to imitate the sound of instruments.

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Wingy Manone

Joseph Matthews "Wingy" Manone (February 13, 1900 – July 9, 1982) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, singer, and bandleader.

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You Oughta Be in Pictures

"You Oughta Be in Pictures" is a 1934 song composed by the American songwriting team Dana Suesse and Edward Heyman.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boswell_Sisters

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