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Russ Columbo

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Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (January 14, 1908 – September 2, 1934), known as Russ Columbo, was an American baritone, songwriter, violinist and actor. [1]

62 relations: Al Rinker, Art Tatum, Baritone, Betty Compton, Billboard Hot 100, Billy Eckstine, Bing Crosby, Broadway Through a Keyhole, California, Camden, New Jersey, Carole Lombard, Con Conrad, Crooner, Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee, Dorothy Dell, Fats Waller, Feral House, Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Frank Sinatra, Gary Cooper, Glendale, California, Good Samaritan Hospital (Los Angeles), Greta Garbo, Gus Arnheim, Harry Barris, James Brown, Jazz, Jerry Vale, Jo Stafford, Lansing Brown Jr., Lena Horne, Looney Tunes, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner, Lupe Vélez, Mildred Bailey, NBC, Neil Diamond, New York City, Nightclub, Okeh Records, Perry Como, Pola Negri, Popular music, Prisoner of Love (Russ Columbo song), RCA Records, Romance (love), Rudolph Valentino, Rudy Vallée, T.A.M.I. Show, ..., Tab Hunter, Teddy Wilson, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Ink Spots, The Texan (film), Tiny Tim (musician), Violin, Virginia Brissac, Vitaphone, Wake Up and Dream (1934 film), Wolf Song, Ziegfeld Follies. Expand index (12 more) »

Al Rinker

Al Rinker (December 20, 1907 – June 11, 1982) was an American musician who began his career as a teen performing with Bing Crosby in the early 1920s in Spokane, Washington in various musical groups.

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Art Tatum

Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice types.

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Betty Compton

Betty Compton (May 13, 1904 – July 12, 1944), born Violet Halling Compton.

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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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Billy Eckstine

William Clarence Eckstine (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993) was an American jazz and pop singer, and a bandleader of the swing era.

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Bing Crosby

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

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Broadway Through a Keyhole

Broadway Through a Keyhole, also billed as Broadway Thru a Keyhole, is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film produced by Twentieth Century Pictures and released by United Artists.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Camden, New Jersey

Camden is a city in Camden County, New Jersey.

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Carole Lombard

Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters, October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American film actress.

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Con Conrad

Con Conrad (born Conrad K. Dober, June 18, 1891 – September 28, 1938) was an American songwriter and producer.

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Crooner

Crooner is an American epithet given primarily to male singers of jazz standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, backed by either a full orchestra, a big band or a piano.

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Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee

Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee is a 1932 Merrie Melodies cartoon short directed by Rudolf Ising.

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Dorothy Dell

Dorothy Dell (January 30, 1915 – June 8, 1934) was an American film actress.

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Fats Waller

Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

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Feral House

Feral House is a book publisher owned and operated by Adam Parfrey.

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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California, US.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style and screen performances.

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Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Good Samaritan Hospital (Los Angeles)

Good Samaritan Hospital is a hospital in Los Angeles, California.

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Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish film actress during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Gus Arnheim

Gus Arnheim (September 4, 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – January 19, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) was a pianist and an early popular band leader.

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Harry Barris

Harry Barris (November 24, 1905 – December 13, 1962) was an American popular singer and songwriter, and is one of the earliest singers to use "scat singing" in recordings.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.

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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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Jerry Vale

Jerry Vale (born Genaro Louis Vitaliano; July 8, 1930 – May 18, 2014) was an American singer and actor.

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Jo Stafford

Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s.

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Lansing Brown Jr.

Lansing "Lansa" Vanwoert Brown Jr. (August 24, 1900 – February 16, 1962) was an American photographer.

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is an American animated series of comedy short films produced by Warner Bros. from 1930 to 1969 during the golden age of American animation, alongside its sister series Merrie Melodies.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner

The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner (formerly the Department of Coroner) was created in its present form in Boyle Heights on December 7, 1990 by an ordinance approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, although it has existed in some form since the late 19th century.

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Lupe Vélez

María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez, known professionally as Lupe Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 14, 1944), was a Mexican-born stage and screen actress, comedian, singer, dancer, and vedette.

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Mildred Bailey

Mildred Bailey (born Mildred Rinker; February 27, 1903 – December 12, 1951) was a popular and influential Native American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as "The Queen of Swing", "The Rockin' Chair Lady" and "Mrs.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Neil Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor.

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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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Nightclub

A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.

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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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Perry Como

Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1913 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality.

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Pola Negri

Pola Negri (born Barbara Apolonia Chałupec; 3 January 18971 August 1987) was a Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Prisoner of Love (Russ Columbo song)

"Prisoner of Love" is a 1931 popular song with music by Russ Columbo and Clarence Gaskill and lyrics by Leo Robin.

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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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Romance (love)

Romance is the expressive and generally pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person.

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Rudolph Valentino

Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), professionally known as Rudolph Valentino, was an Italian actor in America who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik. He was an early pop icon, a sex symbol of the 1920s, who was known as the "Latin lover" or simply as "Valentino".

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Rudy Vallée

Hubert Prior "Rudy" Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, bandleader and radio host.

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T.A.M.I. Show

T.A.M.I. Show is a 1964 concert film released by American International Pictures.

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Tab Hunter

Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm; July 11, 1931) is an American actor, pop singer, film producer, and author.

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Teddy Wilson

Theodore Shaw Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.

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The Ink Spots

The Ink Spots were an American pop vocal group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s.

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The Texan (film)

The Texan is a 1930 American Western film directed by John Cromwell and starring Gary Cooper and Fay Wray.

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Tiny Tim (musician)

Herbert Buckingham Khaury (April 12, 1932 – November 30, 1996), known professionally as Tiny Tim, was an American singer, most of the time ukulele player, and musical archivist.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Virginia Brissac

Virginia Alice Brissac (June 11, 1883 – July 26, 1979) was an American actress who came out of retirement in her early 50s to begin what would turn out to be a twenty-year career as a performer in cinema and television productions.

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Vitaphone

Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931.

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Wake Up and Dream (1934 film)

Wake Up and Dream is a 1934 American musical film directed by Kurt Neumann and written by John Meehan Jr..

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Wolf Song

Wolf Song is a 1929 American silent Western romance drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Gary Cooper and Lupe Vélez.

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Ziegfeld Follies

The Ziegfeld Follies was a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934 and 1936.

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References

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

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