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James Frederick Rodgers (September 18, 1933 – January 18, 2021) was an American pop singer. Rodgers had a run of hits and mainstream popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. His string of crossover singles ranked highly on the Billboard Pop Singles, Hot Country and Western Sides, and Hot Rhythm and Blues Sides charts; in the 1960s, Rodgers had more modest successes with adult contemporary mu
James Charles Rodgers (() September 8, 1897 – () May 26, 1933) was an American singer-songwriter and musician who rose to popularity in the late 1920s. Widely regarded as the " Father of Country Music ", he is best known for his distinctive yodeling .
Jimmie Rodgers, a sweet-voiced singer who scaled the music charts in the 1950s and ’60s before his career was disrupted by a head injury, died Monday in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 87. Rodgers ...
Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924 – December 19, 1997) [1] was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters's band in the early 1950s. [2]
Jimmy Roberts (April 6, 1923 – February 6, 1999) was an American tenor singer. He was a featured performer on the TV variety program The Lawrence Welk Show during its entire broadcast run from 1955 to 1982.
Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer) (1933–2021), American pop singer who sang "Honeycomb" James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857–1940), American organist, composer, teacher, music critic, and publisher James Gamble Rogers IV (1937–1991), American folk musician
The blue yodel songs are a series of thirteen songs written and recorded by Jimmie Rodgers during the period from 1927 to his death in May 1933. The songs were based on the 12-bar blues format and featured Rodgers’ trademark yodel refrains. The lyrics often had a risqué quality with "a macho, slightly dangerous undertone."
"Chemirocha" is a series of three field recordings made in 1950 by ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey during his visit to the Kipsigis people of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya.The tribe had previously heard the recordings of American country singer Jimmie Rodgers, which they integrated to their musical culture.