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The Tin Pan Alley publishers hired her to arrange the chords and her name is on hundreds of examples of music from the 1920s on. [6] Her name appears as a music arranger on more pieces than any other individual. [7] Her earliest known credit for a ukulele arrangement was in 1917, [8] but her arrangements began to appear in large numbers in 1923.
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Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician and actor.He enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes.
"Famous in a Small Town" has a moderately fast tempo in the key of B major. The main chord pattern is B sus 2-E sus 2/B-F ♯ /B. [2] The narrator describes the simplicities of living in a small town, where everyone knows each other and no one needs to have their face in a magazine to be famous. Thus, everybody dies "famous in a small town."
He is recognized by many as the world's most diversified Ukulele player. He has recorded music that is categorized as Pop Music, Romantic Music, Jazz, Traditional Hawaiian music and with orchestras. He was inducted into the Ukulele Hall of Fame in 2006. [5] [6] The first collaboration for Herb Ohta and Andre Popp was released in the US by A&M ...
In 1928 Songs of Praise to Jehovah was released, [20] which included 337 songs. [21] Following the adoption of the name “Jehovah's witnesses” in 1931, the Kingdom Service Song Book was released in 1944 (and revised in 1948), which included 62 songs. This was followed by the release of Songs to Jehovah's Praise in 1950, with 91
He became the president of the Ukulele Society of Great Britain and he was performing in old-time music hall until the mid-1990s. [1] He was a guest of the George Formby Society, which he was a longstanding member of, in November 1999 at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, where he was made an Honorary Member. He spent an hour answering questions ...
Benson has been married to Johnnie Lee since 1965 and has seven children. Benson describes his music as focusing more on love and romance, due to his commitment to his family and religious practices, with Benson being a Jehovah's Witness. [36] Benson has been a resident of Englewood, New Jersey. [37]