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George Warren McCrae Jr. (born October 19, 1944) [1] is an American soul and disco singer who is most famous for his 1974 hit "Rock Your Baby". Biography and career [ edit ]
Gwen was the youngest of five children, [1] [3] She began performing in local clubs as a teenager, and singing with local groups like the Lafayettes and the Independents. In 1963, she met a young sailor named George McCrae, whom she married within a week.
On the radio in 1945, his talents were showcased on the Gordon MacRae Show on the CBS network in collaboration with the conductor Archie Bleyer. [6] In 1946, his fifteen minute variety show Skyline Roof also featured emerging musical talent, including the accordionist John Serry Sr. [7] [8] [9] MacRae was also the host and lead actor on The Railroad Hour, a half-hour anthology series made up ...
His son Hugh McCrae, also a poet, produced a volume of memoirs (My Father and My Father's Friends) about George and his association with such literary figures as Henry Kendall, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Richard Henry Horne and Marcus Clarke. George McCrae wrote novels, stories, poetry, and travel sketches, and illustrated books. After his retirement ...
McCrae was born in Melbourne, the son of the Australian author George Gordon McCrae and grandson of the painter and diarist Georgiana McCrae. Originally he trained as an architect, but later took up drawing, writing and acting, [1] settling eventually in Sydney and later in the New South Wales town of Camden. His works are notable for a sense ...
King George IV. Born: August 17, 1762. Died: June 26, 1830. Prince George Augustus Frederick was the first of fifteen children born to Queen Charlotte and King George.
The youngest of George and Amal Clooney's children, Ella, weighed 4 pounds, 8 ounces at birth. The twins were born at St. Mary’s Hospital in London, which is the same hospital where Prince ...
Gwen McCrae, George McCrae's wife, recorded an answer song to "Rock Your Baby" with George on backing vocals, released less than a year later. " Rockin' Chair " reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart and number nine on the Hot 100 in mid-1975.