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  Amelita Galli-Curci
  Amelita Galli-Curci (18 November 1882 – 26 November 1963) was an Italian operatic coloratura soprano. She was one of the best regarded singers of the early 20th century.
  http://wn.com/Amelita_Galli-Curci
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  Andrés Segovia
  Andrés Torres Segovia, 1st Marquess of Salobreña (February 21, 1893 – June 2, 1987), known as Andrés Segovia, was a Spanish classical guitarist from Linares, Jaén, Andalucia, Spain. He is widely considered to be one of the finest classical guitarists of the 20th century - and one of the founders of what we now consider "Classical Guitar"
  http://wn.com/Andrés_Segovia
• Arnold Volpe
  Arnold Volpe (July 9, 1869- February 2, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born American composer and conductor who came to the United States in 1898. He composed mainly chamber music, including a string quartet, as well as a mazurka for violin and orchestra. He founded both the Lewisohn Stadium Concerts in New York City and the symphony orchestra at the University of Miami, and he conducted five productions for the Washington National Opera, a semi-professional company founded in 1919 and not associated with its current namesake, beginning late in its first season. He was related to the composer Stefan Wolpe.
  http://wn.com/Arnold_Volpe
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  Artie Shaw
  Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He is also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings.
  http://wn.com/Artie_Shaw
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  Austria
  Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
  http://wn.com/Austria
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  Beniamino Gigli
  Beniamino Gigli, (March 20, 1890 - November 30, 1957) was an Italian opera singer. The most famous tenor of his generation, he was renowned internationally for the great beauty of his voice and the soundness of his vocal technique. Music critics sometimes took him to task, however, for what was perceived to be the over-emotionalism of his interpretations. Nevertheless, such was Gigli's talent, he is considered to be one of the very finest tenors in the recorded history of music.
  http://wn.com/Beniamino_Gigli
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  Benny Goodman
  In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."
  http://wn.com/Benny_Goodman
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  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. His career stretched more than half a century from 1926 until his death in 1977. Crosby's unique bass-baritone voice made him the best-selling recording artist until well into the rock era, with over half a billion records in circulation.
  http://wn.com/Bing_Crosby
• Edwin Franko Goldman
  Edwin Franko Goldman (January 1, 1878 - February 21, 1956) is one of America's prominent band composers of the early 20th century. He composed over 150 works, more notably his marches. He is known for founding the renowned Goldman Band of New York City and the American Bandmasters Association. Goldman's works are known for their pleasant and catchy tunes, as well as their fine trios and solos. He also encouraged audiences to whistle/hum along to his marches. This has become a tradition with his most famous march "On the Mall".
  http://wn.com/Edwin_Franko_Goldman
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  Elisabeth Rethberg
  The German soprano Elisabeth Rethberg (22 September 1894 – 6 June 1976) was an opera singer of international repute active from the period of the First World War through to the early 1940s. Some hailed her as the greatest soprano of her day. (Her chief contemporary rival at the New York Metropolitan Opera was the Italian-American soprano Rosa Ponselle, who possessed a bigger and darker-hued voice.)
  http://wn.com/Elisabeth_Rethberg
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  Emilio de Gogorza
  Emilio de Gogorza (1872-1949) was a Spanish-American baritone.
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  Enrico Caruso
  Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italian tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and North and South America. Caruso also made approximately 290 commercial recordings of his voice, beginning as early as 1902 in Italy and continuing from 1904 until 1920 in the United States. All of his known surviving recordings are available today on remastered CDs.
  http://wn.com/Enrico_Caruso
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  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
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  George Gershwin
  George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known.
  http://wn.com/George_Gershwin
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  Giovanni Martinelli
  Giovanni Martinelli (22 October 1885 – 2 February 1969) was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor. He was particularly associated with the Italian lyric-dramatic repertory, although he performed French operatic roles to great acclaim as well. Martinelli was one of the most famous tenors of the 20th century, enjoying a long career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and appearing at other major international theatres.
  http://wn.com/Giovanni_Martinelli
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  Gladys Swarthout
  Gladys Swarthout (b. December 25, 1900, Deepwater, Missouri - d. July 7, 1969, Florence, Italy) was an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.
  http://wn.com/Gladys_Swarthout
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  Glenn Miller
  Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing December 15, 1944) was an American jazz musician (trombone), arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big bands". Miller's signature recordings include In the Mood, American Patrol, Chattanooga Choo Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000. While traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. His body has never been found.
  http://wn.com/Glenn_Miller
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  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler (; 1860 – 1911) was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer, he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.
  http://wn.com/Gustav_Mahler
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  Guy Lombardo
  Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo (June 19, 1902 – November 5, 1977) was a Canadian, then American bandleader and violinist.
  http://wn.com/Guy_Lombardo
• Helen Jepson
  Helen Jepson (November 28, 1904 - September 16, 1997) was an American lyric soprano noted for being a "stunning blond beauty" as well as for her voice.
  http://wn.com/Helen_Jepson
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  Hugo Montenegro
  Hugo Montenegro (September 2, 1925 - February 6, 1981) was an American orchestra leader and composer of film soundtracks. His best known work is derived from interpretations of the music from Spaghetti Westerns, especially his cover version of the main theme from the 1966 film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He composed the musical score for the 1969 Western Charro! which starred Elvis Presley.
  http://wn.com/Hugo_Montenegro
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  James Melton
  James Melton (January 2, 1904 – April 21, 1961), was a popular singer in the 1920s and early 1930s who later began a career as an operatic singer when tenor voices went out of style in popular music around 1932-1935. His singing talent was similar to that of Richard Crooks, John Charles Thomas or Nelson Eddy.
  http://wn.com/James_Melton
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  Jan Peerce
  Jan Peerce (June 3, 1904 – December 15, 1984) was an American operatic tenor. He is the father of film director Larry Peerce.
  http://wn.com/Jan_Peerce
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  Jascha Heifetz
  Jascha Heifetz () was a violin virtuoso born in Vilnius (then Russian Empire, now Lithuania) ( – December 10, 1987). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.
  http://wn.com/Jascha_Heifetz
• Jim Pugh
  Jim Pugh (born February 5, 1964 in Burbank, California) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won three Grand Slam men's doubles titles (two Australian Open, one Wimbledon) and five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles (three Australian Open, one Wimbledon, one US Open). Pugh reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1989.
  http://wn.com/Jim_Pugh
• Jimmy Dorsey
  James "Jimmy" Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD". He composed the standards "I'm Glad There is You (In This World of Ordinary People)" and "It's the Dreamer in Me".
  http://wn.com/Jimmy_Dorsey
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  John Charles Thomas
  John Charles Thomas (September 6, 1891December 13, 1960) was a popular American opera, operetta and concert baritone known for his exuberant singing style and virile, well trained voice.
  http://wn.com/John_Charles_Thomas
• Jules Bledsoe
  Jules Bledsoe (1898 – 1943) was a once renowned, but now semi-forgotten baritone, and the first African American artist to gain regular employment on Broadway, subsequent to Bert Williams,William Grant Still, Ford Dabney and others.
  http://wn.com/Jules_Bledsoe
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  Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular comedy teams of the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. Composed of thin, English-born Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy (1892–1957) they became well known during the late 1920s to the mid-1940s for their work in motion pictures; the team also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe.
  http://wn.com/Laurel_and_Hardy
• Lawrence Tibbett
  Lawrence Mervil Tibbett (November 16, 1896 - July 15, 1960) was a great American opera singer and recording artist who also performed as a film actor and radio personality. A baritone, he sang with the New York Metropolitan Opera company more than 600 times from 1923 to 1950. He performed diverse musical theatre roles, ranging from Iago in Met productions of Otello to Captain Hook in Peter Pan in a touring show.
  http://wn.com/Lawrence_Tibbett
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  Lawrence Welk
  Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans (and critics) as "champagne music."
  http://wn.com/Lawrence_Welk
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  Lily Pons
  Lily Pons (April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976) was a French-American coloratura soprano.
  http://wn.com/Lily_Pons
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  Lionel Hampton
  Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
  http://wn.com/Lionel_Hampton
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  Louis Armstrong
  Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
  http://wn.com/Louis_Armstrong
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  Lucrezia Bori
  Lucrezia Bori (24 December 1887 – 14 May 1960) was a celebrated Spanish operatic singer, a lyric soprano.
  http://wn.com/Lucrezia_Bori
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  Maria Jeritza
  Maria Jeritza (October 6, 1887, Brno – July 10, 1982, Orange, New Jersey), born Marie Jedličková, was a celebrated Moravian soprano singer, long associated with the Vienna State Opera (1912–1935) and the Metropolitan Opera (1921-1932 and 1951). Her sensational rise to fame and spectacular beauty and personality earned her the nickname The Moravian Thunderbolt.
  http://wn.com/Maria_Jeritza
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  Mary Garden
  Mary Garden (20 February 1874 - 3 January 1967), was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She spent the latter part of her childhood and youth in the United States and eventually became an American citizen, although she lived in France for many years and eventually retired to Scotland, where she died.
  http://wn.com/Mary_Garden
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  Maxwell Anderson
  James Maxwell Anderson (15 December 1888 – 28 February 1959) was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist. He was a founding member of The Playwrights Company.
  http://wn.com/Maxwell_Anderson
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  Miguel Fleta
  Miguel Burró Fleta (1 December or 28 December 1897, Albalate de Cinca, Huesca Province, Spain - 28 May or 30 May 1938, A Coruña) was a Spanish operatic tenor.
  http://wn.com/Miguel_Fleta
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  Mike Mosiello
  Mike Mosiello (full name Michele Alphonso Mosiello) (December 2, 1896-June 3, 1953) was an Italian-born American trumpet player.
  http://wn.com/Mike_Mosiello
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  Mischa Elman
  Mikhail (Mischa) Saulovich Elman (; January 20, 1891, Talnoye, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire – April 5, 1967, New York, United States) was a Jewish, Ukrainian-born, violinist, famed for his passionate style and beautiful tone.
  http://wn.com/Mischa_Elman
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  Mitch Miller
  Mitchell William "Mitch" Miller (July 4, 1911 – July 31, 2010) was an American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, A&R; man and record company executive. Miller was one of the most influential figures in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of Artists and Repertoire at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist with an NBC television series, Sing Along with Mitch. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in the early 1930s, Miller began his musical career as an accomplished player of the oboe and English horn, and recorded several highly regarded classical albums featuring his instrumental work, but he is best remembered as a conductor, choral director, television performer and recording executive.
  http://wn.com/Mitch_Miller
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  Paul Robeson
  Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert singer and film actor, who became noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism. A forerunner of the civil rights movement, Robeson was also an All-American athlete, lawyer, writer, trade unionist, peace activist, Phi Beta Kappa Society laureate, and a recipient of the Spingarn Medal and Stalin Peace Prize. Robeson achieved international notoriety for both his artistic accomplishments and his outspoken radical beliefs, which largely clashed with the Jim Crow climate of the pre-civil rights United States. As a result, he became a prime target of the political right during the McCarthyist era. Despite being one of the most internationally famous cultural figures of the 20th century, persecution by the US government and media virtually erased Robeson from mainstream US culture and subsequent interpretations of US history; including civil rights and black history.
  http://wn.com/Paul_Robeson
• Richard Crooks
  Richard Alexander Crooks (June 26, 1900, Trenton, New JerseySeptember 29, 1972, Portola Valley, California) was an American tenor and a leading singer at the New York Metropolitan Opera. He had a sweet-toned voice and many critics consider him to be the best lyric tenor ever produced by the United States.
  http://wn.com/Richard_Crooks
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  Rosa Ponselle
  Rosa Ponselle (January 22, 1897 – May 25, 1981), was an American operatic soprano with a large, opulent voice. She sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and is generally considered by music critics to have been one of the greatest sopranos of the past 100 years.
  http://wn.com/Rosa_Ponselle
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  Rose Bampton
  Rose Bampton (November 28, 1907 – August 21, 2007) was a celebrated American opera singer who had an active international career during the 1930s and 1940s. She began her professional career performing mostly minor roles from the mezzo-soprano repertoire in 1929 but later switched to singing primarily leading soprano roles in 1937 until her retirement from the opera stage in 1963. She notably had a lengthy and fruitful partnership with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, singing there for eighteen consecutive seasons between 1932 and 1950. Her greatest successes were from the dramatic soprano repertoire, particularly in operas by Richard Wagner. Not a stranger to the concert repertoire, Bampton was particularly known for her performances of works by Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, and her friend Samuel Barber, notably having performed their compositions with the composers accompanying her in concert.
  http://wn.com/Rose_Bampton
• Skitch Henderson
  Lyle Russell Cedric “Skitch” Henderson (January 27, 1918November 1, 2005) was a pianist, conductor, and composer. His nickname ("Skitch") reportedly derived from his ability to quickly "re-sketch" a song in a different key.
  http://wn.com/Skitch_Henderson
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  Stepin Fetchit
  Stepin Fetchit (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985) was the stage name of American comedian and film actor Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry. Perry parlayed the Fetchit persona into a successful film career, eventually becoming a millionaire, the first black actor in history to do so. He was also the first black actor to receive a screen credit.
  http://wn.com/Stepin_Fetchit
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  Tito Schipa
  Tito Schipa (27 December 1888 – 16 December 1965) was an Italian tenor. He is considered one of the finest tenore di grazia in operatic history. He was endowed with a natural, sensuous voice which he deployed with great intelligence and taste.
  http://wn.com/Tito_Schipa
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  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I. He was also prominent among the tin pan alley composers and was later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). A prolific composer, Herbert produced two operas, a cantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 plays, 31 compositions for orchestra, nine band compositions, nine cello compositions, five violin compositions with piano or orchestra, 22 piano compositions and numerous songs, choral compositions and orchestrations of works by other composers, among other music.
  http://wn.com/Victor_Herbert
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  Walter Damrosch
  Walter Johannes Damrosch (January 30, 1862 – December 22, 1950) was a German-born American conductor and composer. He is best remembered today as long-time director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and for conducting the world premiere performances of George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F (1925), and An American in Paris (1928).
  http://wn.com/Walter_Damrosch

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  Austria
  Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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• USA
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• Amelita Galli-Curci
• An American in Paris
• Andrés Segovia
• Arnold Volpe
• Arthur Pryor
• Artie Shaw
• Austria
• Beniamino Gigli
• Benny Goodman
• Bing Crosby
• Clarinet
• Composer
• Conducting
• Del Staigers
• Edwin Franko Goldman
• Elisabeth Rethberg
• Emilio de Gogorza
• Enrico Caruso
• Feodor Chaliapin
• Frank Sinatra
• Gene Austin
• George Gershwin
• Giovanni Martinelli
• Gladys Rice
• Gladys Swarthout
• Glenn Miller
• Grace Moore
• Grammy Awards
• Gustav Mahler
• Guy Lombardo
• Helen Jepson
• Hires Root Beer
• Hugo Montenegro
• Isadora Duncan
• James Melton
• Jan Peerce
• Jascha Heifetz
• Jim Pugh
• Jimmy Dorsey
• John Charles Thomas
• Jon Crain
• Jules Bledsoe
• Laurel and Hardy
• Lawrence Tibbett
• Lawrence Welk
• Leopold Stokowski
• Lily Pons
• Lionel Hampton
• Louis Armstrong
• Lucrezia Bori
• Maria Jeritza
• Mary Garden
• Maxwell Anderson
• MGM
• Miguel Fleta
• Mike Mosiello
• Mischa Elman
• Mitch Miller
• musician
• Nathaniel Finston
• NBC
• New York City
• Nino Martini
• Paul Robeson
• piano
• RCA Victor
• Richard Crooks
• RKO
• Rosa Ponselle
• Rose Bampton
• Salada tea
• Skitch Henderson
• Sousa
• Stepin Fetchit
• The Divine Lady
• The Eveready Hour
• The Lonesome Road
• The Platters
• Tito Schipa
• Tommy Dorsey
• United States
• USA
• Vassily Safonoff
• Victor Herbert
• Walter Damrosch

Shilkret, Nathaniel Filmography

• Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley (1999)
• Screenliner: Lake Texoma (1951)
• Flying Padre: An RKO-Pathe Screenliner (1951)
• Airline Glamour Girls (1949)
• This Is America No. 3: Berlin Powderkeg (1949)