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"Great Big Friendly Town Chicago" – Dora Hall "Greater Chicago March" – composer: Jacob Valentine Havener; lyricist: Agner Clark Winkler "Green Mill Garden Blues", 1920 – composer: unknown (88 key piano roll) "Greetings. Chicago's Official Song. 1833–Chicago–1933" – composer & lyricist: George D. Gaw; transcriber & arranger: Frank ...
Name Image Birth Death Known for Association Reference Patricia Barber: Nov 8, 1955: Jazz singer, songwriter, and pianist Born in Chicago William Beckett: Feb 11, 1985: Musician, associated with The Academy Is... Lived in Chicago Joe Becker (musician) Jun 23, 1976: Guitarist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Born in Chicago Taylor Bennett ...
Robert William Lamm (born October 13, 1944) is an American musician and a founding member of the rock band Chicago.He is best known for his songwriting, vocals, and keyboard melodies, most significantly on the band's debut studio album, Chicago Transit Authority (1969).
The label was founded in Gary, Indiana in 1953 by Vivian Carter and James C. Bracken (shortly after moving to Chicago), a husband-and-wife team who used their initials for the label's name. [19] Vee-Jay hold historical significance being one of the first African American and female owned record companies.
Chicago's music has long been a staple of marching bands in the U.S. "25 or 6 to 4" was named as the number one marching band song by Kevin Coffey of the Omaha World-Herald, [250] and as performed by the Jackson State University marching band, ranked number seven of the "Top 20 Cover Songs of 2018 by HBCU Bands". [251]
After just two albums, Dacus was dismissed from Chicago in February 1980. [6] He was replaced by Chris Pinnick, who was initially credited as an additional contributor but later upgraded to a full band member. [1] After the release of Chicago XIV, the band was complemented on tour by Marty Grebb on saxophone, guitar and keyboards. [7]
The song made a minor appearance on the U.S. pop charts, reaching #84 in the fall of 1957. [1] It was the first of two charting songs about Chicago recorded by Sinatra. The other was " My Kind of Town " from 1964, which reached U.S. #110.
100 gecs – The name came from a spray-painted phrase seen by the duo in Chicago. [6] 1349 – Named after the year the Bubonic plague reached Norway. [7] The 1975 – Lead singer Matthew Healy said in an interview that he came up with the name after discovering an old art journal from a beatnik, with one of the dates listed as "June 1st, the ...