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Johnny Green (10 October 1908 – 15 May 1989) was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conductor. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger. His most famous song was one of his earliest, "Body and Soul". Green was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
John Waldo Green was born in New York City, the son of musical parents. He attended Horace Mann School and the New York Military Academy, and was accepted by Harvard at the age of 15, entering the University in 1924. His musical tutors were Herman Wasserman, Ignace Hilsberg and Walter Spalding. Between semesters, Bandleader Guy Lombardo heard his Harvard Gold Coast Orchestra and hired him to create dance arrangements for his nationally famous orchestra. His first song hit, Coquette (1928), was written for Lombardo (with Carmen Lombardo, Guy's brother, and lyricist Gus Kahn). Green was educated in music, history, economics, and government. His instruments were the piano and the trombone, although he abandoned the latter after college.
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artistes of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation.
A multimedia star, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses. His early career coincided with technical recording innovations; this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como,Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine recognized Crosby as the person who had done the most for American G.I. morale during World War II and, during his peak years, around 1948, polls declared him the "most admired man alive," ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. Also in 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.
John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music icon, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice; for the "boom-chicka-boom" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band; for his rebelliousness, coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor; for providing free concerts inside prison walls; and for his dark performance clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally started his concerts by saying, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." and usually following it up with his standard "Folsom Prison Blues".
Actors: Sam McMurray (actor), Donal Logue (director), Danny Trejo (actor), Donal Logue (producer), Henry Thomas (actor), Donal Logue (writer), Paul Rudd (actor), J.P. Manoux (actor), Stephen Dorff (actor), Jason Isaacs (actor), Donal Logue (actor), D.W. Moffett (actor), Katherine Randolph (actress), Nina Kaczorowski (actress), Maeve Quinlan (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Sport,Actors: Ray Bennett (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Henry Hall (actor), Tom Keene (actor), John Merton (actor), Artie Ortego (actor), David Sharpe (actor), Marin Sais (actress), E.B. Derr (producer), John T. Neville (writer), Ray Taylor (director), Robert Fiske (actor), Carlos De Valdez (actor), Chief Many Treaties (actor), Frank Melford (producer),
Plot: Captain Jerry Crawford ('Tom Keene (I)' (qv)) who, with his Mississippi Vollunteers, is stationed at Fort Escambria in 1817, is summoned to the aid of a frontier family which has suffered an attack at the hands of the warring Seminole Indians. While driving off the raiders, Jerry and his side-kick "Kentuck" ('Budd Buster' (qv)), come across a gun used by an Indian. It is of such quality that the soldiers suspect white renegades of supplying the weapons to the Seminoles. Bill Crawford ('David Sharpe (I)' (qv)), Jerry's younger brother, while carrying a boatload of supplies and munitions to Fort Escambria, is stopped by Bill Holston ('Robert Fiske (I)' (qv)), Provost Marshal for Don Salvador Dominguez (Carlos De Valdez'), in Florida, and his henchman Jenkins ('Ray Bennett (I)' (qv)). Bill is tricked into crossing into Spanish territory while his cargo is seized. Bill is returned to Florida and sentenced to be shot at dawn.
Keywords: 1860s, american, andrew-jackson, army-captain, army-officer, b-movie, brother, chaperone, damsel-in-distress, daughterActors: William Russell (actor), Robert Cain (actor), Johnny Hines (actor), Colin Chase (actor), Emmett J. Flynn (director), Charles A. Stevenson (actor), Lucille Lee Stewart (actress), William MacLeod Raine (writer), Thomas Delmar (actor), Roy Somerville (writer), Dorothy Dickson (actress), Mary Hay (actress), Carl Hyson (actor),
Genres: Drama,