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"Barnum and Bailey's Favorite" by Karl King (1892–1971) is a famous circus music piece. [11] Unlike Fučík, King grew up performing circus music joining Robinson's Famous Circus at the age of 19 as a baritone player. During that time circus music needed its own style because modern music did not fit with most of the acts that the circus ...
Screamers were mostly composed in a 60-year period (1895–1955). Circuses were in need of music that would stir the audience into a frenzy, as four-footed animals galloped across the ring. Because march music was a prominent part of American music at that time, and because it carried such a quick tempo, it was this that ringmasters demanded.
King's earliest known compositions date from 1909 with this, his most famous work, being composed in only his fifth year of composing. [1] King played Baritone horn in many circus bands including Barnum and Bailey's, for more than a decade. [1] As is common in his compositions, Karl King made the baritone part a major voice in the march. [2]
Clyde Raymond Beatty (June 10, 1903 – July 19, 1965) was a famed animal trainer, zoo owner, and circus mogul. He joined Howe's Great London Circus in 1921 as a cage boy and spent the next four decades rising to fame as one of the most famous circus performers and animal trainers in the world.
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She was a famous circus performer doing tightrope and comical pratfall acts. Jumberto (voiced by Jonathan Potts) is a jackrabbit magician whose tricks rarely work. Jig, Jag, and Jug (all voiced by Sunday Muse) are the three mischievous nephews of Jumberto. Terrific (voiced by Ed Saheley) is a famous tiger tamer in Circus Town. He has a tiger ...
The poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal from 1843 that inspired the Beatles' song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!. William Kite (c. 1825 – after 1845) was a 19th-century circus performer, best known as being the "Mr. Kite" from the Beatles 1967 song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" [1]
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. These women quickly drew large crowds of circus lovers ...