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Pearl Lavinia Carr (2 November 1921 – 16 February 2020) [1] and Edward Victor "Teddy" Johnson (4 September 1919 [2] – 6 June 2018) were English husband-and-wife entertainers who were best-known during the 1950s and early 1960s. [3] They were the UK's Eurovision entrants at the 1959 contest with "Sing, Little Birdie", which came second.
Paul had hosted a 15-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC in 1950, featuring his trio (himself, Ford, and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humour between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which ...
Mary Ford (born Iris Colleen Summers; July 7, 1924 – September 30, 1977) was an American guitarist and vocalist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford. Between 1950 and 1954, the couple had 16 top-ten hits, including " How High the Moon " and " Vaya con Dios ", which were number one hits on the Billboard ...
You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, […] Black singers from the 1950s: Influence, legacy, and cultural ...
Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso [a] (21 October 1925 – 16 July 2003), known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, earning the nickname "La Guarachera de Cuba".
Edie Adams (born Edith Elizabeth Enke; [2] April 16, 1927 – October 15, 2008) [3] was an American comedian, actress, singer and businesswoman. She earned a Tony Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award.
O'Connell also was the featured singer on The Russ Morgan Show on CBS TV in 1956. [9] In 1957, she had her own 15-minute program, The Helen O'Connell Show, twice a week on NBC. [2] O'Connell was one of the first "girls" on NBC's The Today Show, commenting at the time: "I wasn't hired as a singer, I was hired as a talker, a pleasant switch."
Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) was an American singer, who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. [1]Along with the Supremes, the Miracles, the Temptations, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and the Four Tops, Wells was said to have been part of the charge in black music onto radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America, "bridging the ...