Steve & Eydie
- 100% match to Mitch Miller
Stephen Leibowitz, 8 July 1935, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. The son of a cantor in a Brooklyn synagogue, Lawrence was in the Glee club at Thomas Jefferson High School, where he began studying piano, saxophone, composition and arranging. He made his recording debut for King Records at the age of 16. The record, Mine And Mine Alone, based on Softl
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Robert Goulet
- 72% match to Mitch Miller
26 November 1933, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA, d. 30 October 2007, Los Angeles, California, USA. Born to Canadian parents, actor and singer, Goulet made his first professional appearance in 1951 with the Edmonton Summer Pops. He also played in Thunder Rock and Visit To A Small Planet. After appearing in Canadian productions of South Pacific, Finians Rainbow, and Gent
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Percy Faith
- 49% match to Mitch Miller
7 April 1908, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, d. 9 February 1976, Ericino, California, USA. During the 30s Faith worked extensively on radio in Canada, and moved to the USA in 1940 to take up a post with NBC. During the 50s he was musical director for Columbia Records, for whom he made a number of popular albums, mostly of mood music. He worked with Tony Bennett, with whom he had
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Ray Conniff
- 41% match to Mitch Miller
6 November 1916, Attelboro, Massachusetts, USA, d. 12 October 2002, Escondido, California, USA. Taught to play the trombone by his father, Conniff studied arranging with the aid of a mail-order course while still at college. In 1934, after graduation, he worked with small bands in Boston before joining Bunny Berigan as trombonist/arranger in 1937. After a spell with Bob Cros
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This family group from Malden, Massachusetts, USA, was consistently popular from the late 40s through the 50s. Brothers Joe Urick (3 May 1924), Gene Urick (b. 13 February 1925), Vic Urick (b. 20 May 1926, d. 23 January 1978, Nashville, Tennessee, USA) and Ed Urick (b. 9 July 1927, Malden, Massachusetts, USA) started singing together in high school and won several amateur con
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Lawrence Welk
- 36% match to Mitch Miller
11 March 1903, Strasburg, North Dakota, USA, d. 17 May 1992, Santa Monica, California, USA. After achieving a measure of competence on the piano-accordion, Welk formed a dance band in the mid-20s, and soon became immensely popular, with engagements at leading hotels and endless one-night stands on the countrys dancehall circuit. The band was widely criticized in the mu
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Patti Page
- 33% match to Mitch Miller
Clara Ann Fowler, 8 November 1927, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. A popular singer who is said to have sold more records during the 50s than any other female artist, Pages total sales (singles and albums) are claimed to be in excess of 60 million. One of eight girls in a family of 11, Clara Fowler started her career singing country songs on radio station KTUL in Tulsa, and play
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9 May 1914, Battle, Sussex, England, d. 9 June 1995. After early training on the piano and organ, Chacksfield led small groups in the late 30s before becoming arranger for the Stars In Battledress entertainment unit in World War II. His first radio broadcast was Original Songs At The Piano from Glasgow, and during the late 40s he worked with comedian Charlie Chesters S
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Eddie Fisher
- 30% match to Mitch Miller
Edwin Jack Fisher, 10 August 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Fisher was a bobby sox idol, one of the most popular US singers of the 50s, with a strong, melodic voice. He sang with the bands of Buddy Morrow and Charlie Ventura at the age of 18, and his nickname was Sonny Boy because of his affection for Al Jolson songs. In 1949 he gained nationw
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Johnny Mathis
- 28% match to Mitch Miller
John Royce Mathis, 30 September 1935, San Francisco, California, USA. In 1956, the 19-year-old Mathis was signed to Columbia Records where he began his career with a jazz-tinged album. A US Top 20 hit with Wonderful! Wonderful! saw him move adroitly towards the balladeer market, and before long he was a major concert attraction, with regular appearances on highly
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Guy Lombardo
- 27% match to Mitch Miller
19 June 1902, London, Ontario, Canada, d. 5 November 1977, Houston, Texas, USA. A celebrated band leader and impresario, early in the 20s, Lombardo formed a dance band in collaboration with his brothers Carmen (b. 16 July 1903, d. 17 April 1971) and Lebert (b. 11 February 1905, d, 16 June 1993) and a fourth brother, Victor (b. 10 April 1911, d. 22 January 1994), joined later
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Morton Gould
- 27% match to Mitch Miller
10 December 1913, Richmond Hill, New York, USA, d. 21 February 1996, Orlando, Florida, USA. Gould was one of the most important figures in American music of the twentieth century. His composition Pavane (from his American Symphonette No. 2) has become a light-music standard. By the age of 21 he was conducting and arranging a weekly series of orchestra
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Vaughn Monroe
- 26% match to Mitch Miller
7 October 1911, Akron, Ohio, USA, d. 21 May 1973, Stuart, Florida, USA. Monroe was a Wisconsin State Trumpet Champion in 1926 with an ambition to become an opera singer. This eventually led him to join Austin Wylie And His Golden Pheasant Orchestra and Larry Funk And His Band Of A Thousand Melodies. He studied voice at the New England Conservatory Of Music, and in 1939 sang
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