Don Robertson
- 30% match to Billy Grammer
Donald Irwin Robertson, 5 December 1922, Peking, China. Robertson’s father was head of the Department of Medicine at Peking Union Medical College, his mother was a pianist and poet. She encouraged his interest in music and he played piano from the age of four, and composed from seven. In Chicago, he played piano in dance bands from around 1936 and was a pre-medical stud
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Al Morgan
- 24% match to Billy Grammer
Albert Morgan, 19 August 1908, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, d. 14 April 1974, Los Angeles, California, USA. The youngest of four Morgan brothers who all became professional musicians, he first played clarinet and drums before settling on the bass. Among his early engagements was one with his band leading brother Isaiah (b. 7 April 1897, d. 11 May 1966), but he never worked w
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Al Trace
- 22% match to Billy Grammer
USA. Formerly a drummer and vocalist in several smaller groups playing the Midwest, Trace formed his own dance band in 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. As well as Trace the vocalists included Toni Arden and Bob Vincent. Their first engagement was a prestigious one, at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1933. Long runs at the Blackhawk Restaurant and Sherman Hotel (for three
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Norma Tanega
- 22% match to Billy Grammer
30 January 1939, Vallejo, California, USA. Her Filipino parents actively encouraged their daughter’s interest in music and art, both of which she studied. Although classically trained, Tanega quickly showed a preference for guitar. She moved to New York to work as a graphic artist, but quickly became immersed in the city’s folk enclave. She drew encouragement from
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Richard Maltby
- 19% match to Billy Grammer
26 June 1914, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 19 August 1991, Santa Monica, California, USA. Maltby started playing cornet in his school band, going on to Northwest University Music School, before his first professional experience with ‘Little’ Jack Little and his band. He was musical director for CBS radio in Chicago (1940-45), and during this period wrote ‘Six Fl
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Larry Hall
- 18% match to Billy Grammer
30 June 1941, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Larry Hall was responsible for one Top 20 hit, 1960’s ‘Sandy’. He first recorded the Terry Fell composition in 1959 for the tiny Hot 1 label. The rocking number went nowhere until the New York-based Strand label picked it up for distribution and the single went to number 15 in the US. Hall recorded another single, ‘A G
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The Four Coins
- 18% match to Billy Grammer
Formed in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1952, the vocal harmony group the Four Coins consisted of George Mantalis, James Gregorakis and brothers George and Michael Mahramas. Originally the quartet were horn players in an orchestra with Bobby Vinton, who was an unknown at the time. At the end of 1952 the foursome began harmonizing together, and in January 1953 appeared on an
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