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This helped their second Happy Tiger album, Movin' Toward Happiness, chart on the Billboard 200. Wanted was nominated for Best Album Cover for the 1971 Grammy Awards, and was mistakenly listed under the title Mason Proffit. [4] In 1972, the band signed to Warner Bros. Records and continued touring, performing up to 300 concerts each year.
Happy Tiger Records was an independent American record label that was owned by the Flying Tiger Line air freight company. [1] [2] Happy Tiger operated from 1969 to 1971.During this time the label produced more than two dozen albums by Count Basie, Mason Proffit, Red Rhodes, Priscilla Paris, Paul Kelly, and the Anita Kerr Singers.
Kerr was born in Memphis, Tennessee.In 1947, she married Al Kerr, and they moved to Nashville the following year so that he could take a job as a dee-jay on WKDA.The performances of a vocal quintet she organized attracted the attention of a WSM radio program director, who then hired her to lead and arrange an octet choir on the radio station's "Sunday Down South" broadcasts.
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He was featured (on bass) on O'Day's quartet version of "No Soap, No Hope Blues". Frigo is credited as playing fiddle for the track "A Rectangle Picture" on the Mason Proffit album Wanted released in 1969 on the Happy Tiger label. [citation needed] In the mid-1980s Frigo largely abandoned playing bass to concentrate on violin.
No Count Sarah is a studio album by the American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan released in August 1959. [2] [3]The title refers to the fact that Vaughan was accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra, but without Count Basie.
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe.
Thomas Baker Knight Jr. (July 4, 1933 – October 12, 2005) [1] was an American songwriter and musician.His best known compositions were "Lonesome Town", "The Wonder of You", and "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time".