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Jack Anglin (May 13, 1916 – March 8, 1963) was an American country music singer best known as a member of the Anglin Brothers, and later Johnnie & Jack with Johnnie Wright. [ 1 ] Younger Years
Johnnie & Jack were an American country music duo, composed of Johnnie Wright (1914–2011) and Jack Anglin (1916–1963). [1] The duo became members of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1940s. [ 2 ]
Johnnie Robert Wright Jr. (May 13, 1914 [1] – September 27, 2011) [2] was an American country music singer-songwriter, who spent much of his career working with Jack Anglin as the popular duo Johnnie & Jack, and was also the husband of country music star Kitty Wells.
Johnnie Louise Richardson (June 29, 1935, Montgomery, Alabama - October 25, 1988, New York City) [1] and Joe Rivers (March 20, 1937, Charleston, South Carolina) [2] began singing together in 1957 and released several singles on Chess Records, [3] which were leased from J & S Records, to whom the duo were under contract.
The New York Racing Association (NYRA) annually honors the jazz legend, a native of Rochester, N.Y., with a stakes races restricted to NY-bred three-year-olds, as part of their New York Stallion Series. First run in 2003, The Calloway has since undergone various distance and surface changes. The race is currently run at Saratoga Racecourse ...
Her debut in vaudeville was in Scranton, Pennsylvania at the age of 15 and she debuted in big-time vaudeville at Hammerstein's Theatre in New York in 1911. As a singer and actress, she established her name in vaudeville as "The Ragtime Singer." Baker is one of the Palace headliners who performed there numerous times. Her Palace debut was in ...
Benny Edward Martin (May 8, 1928 [1] – March 13, 2001), [2] was an American bluegrass fiddler who invented the eight-string fiddle. Throughout his musical career he performed with artists such as the Bluegrass Boys, Don Reno, the Smoky Mountain Boys and Flatt and Scruggs, and later performed and recorded with the Stanley Brothers, Hylo Brown, Jimmy Martin, Johnnie and Jack, and the Stonemans ...
Roger Miller was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the third son of Jean and Laudene (Holt) Miller.Jean Miller died from spinal meningitis when Miller was a year old. Unable to support the family during the Great Depression, [1] Laudene sent her three sons to live with three of Jean's brothers.