Benny Goodman was born on May 30, 1909, in Chicago Illinois. He was known as “The King of Swing” to many people during his lifetime. Benny Goodman had to start somewhere though. Benny grew up in a poor Jewish family during his childhood. Benny was ten years old and he was already good at the clarinet. Benny Goodman got his education from the Hull house and started his career. By the age of thirteen, people thought he was good enough that they paid him money to perform jazz music. Later on, he went to join Ben Pollack’s band, and stayed with them for several years. Goodman’s first album, A Jazz Holiday, was released in 1928. This was right before he left the band and moved to New York City the next year. There, he played on the radio,
It's a good chance that you'll quickly recall the name and talents of singer, actor Frankie Avalon, no matter your age. Frankie's stellar career embraced three generations of music, television and motion pictures and was an intrinsic fiber of American entertainment history. Frankie Avalon was born September 18, 1940 in "The City of Brotherly Love", Philadelphia, PA. He could light the flame and turn up the heat on nearly every love struck teen girl or adult woman in America!
Huey Percy Newton, better known as the co-founder of the Black Panthers. Was born on February 17, 1942 in Monroe, Louisiana. To Amelia Johnson Newton and Walter Newton, a sharecropper and Baptist preacher. The Newton’s respected Louisiana's former governor Huey P. Long so much that they named their seventh and youngest son after him. Long who was perhaps the most controversial governor that Louisiana’s has ever had, and was killed seven years after being elected governor. Walter was known for working several jobs to support his enormous family. He was very against Amelia working outside of the home. The family migrated to California during the 1940s, in search of professions in the war industries.
Previously working in the automotive industry, Berry Gordy explored the idea of creating a music record company that would incorporate the automobile assembly line process that would later open the doors of opportunity for african-americans everywhere even to these contemporary times. This company was called Motown Records; obtaining this goal proved to have some obstacles due to the encounter of racial tensions that affected every man, woman, and child. Fortunately, a determined will, aquired from his boxing days, pushed Gordy to continue striving to exchange his love music with anyone that would listen. “A Foundation was Built”
Wayne Shorter was born on August 25, 1933 in Newark New Jersey. His father Joseph, welded for the Singer Sewing Machine Company and his mother Louise sewed for a furrier. At age 15 Wayne Shorter had a life change which involved music. Wayne and a few friends snuck into a Lester Young concert they heard Jazz music from Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. At age 16 Wayne then wanted to play the clarinet he said he played the Clarinet because “it looked like a little spaceship”. Wayne saw great performances and heard great music from Count Basie and Duke Ellington.After two years of studying the saxophone at age 17 Wayne started playing bebop with a local YMCA band for $1.50 a night. He later replaces the clarinet with the tenor saxophone. In high
Ferdinand Joseph “Jelly Roll Morton” LaMenthe was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 20, 1890. As a child he began to learn how to play the piano at age 10 years old. He was taught by Tony Jackson; compose of songs like “Pretty Boy” and other hits. Tony Jackson is among the few musicians whom Morton admired and respected. Jackson was also known to him as the greatest single-handed entertainers in the world. After his mother’s passing, Morton began playing in gigs in the bordellos of the Storyville district of New Orleans. In New Orleans he became active as a gambler, pool shark, and many more things that made him get kicked out by his grandmother. With him doing all of this gambling she didn’t want his sisters to see that life that he was going down.
My famous Parisian, AKA Hank Williams Jr, was born on May 26, 1949. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. His late father died 3 year later, leaving Hank and his mother
Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Caigo, Georgia. Growing up he was a very different and bright character, anyone could tell you that one. People always said he would have a smile on his face and when he wanted to do something he was determined until he did it. He had had gone to John Muir High School where he was an excellent athlete and his grades were also very good.
Benjamin David Goodman was born in Chicago on May 30, 1909, the ninth of twelve children born to David and Dora Goodman, who both emigrated from Russia but met in America.
Edward Kenny Ellington was born on April 29, 1899 to James Edward Ellington and daisy Ellington in Washington dc. Edward was born in to a family of musician both of his parents played the piano. At the sage of seven he began taking piano lessons, by his teenage years he was already writing his own music.
Andrew Goodman was born on November 23, 1943 in New York City. He was one of three sons in a liberal Jewish household. Andy became involved in social and political activism at an early age. He attended a private high school in New York, the Walden School, and then went on to attend Queens College.
Hank Williams should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because he changed the face of country music at a young age, he is one of the most iconic country artists in history, and has many songs that are timeless; a lot of which are about relationship problems that he had. Hiram “Hank” Williams was born in September 17th, 1923 in Mount Olive, Alabama with a spinal problem called spina bifida; causing him to start drinking alcohol and taking drugs to relieve the pain when he’s older. Hank Williams’ parents are Lon and Lillie Williams. His father was a logger and entered the Veterans Administration hospital when Hank was six, he didn’t see his father much over
Frank Sinatra is an American icon who is still touching the hearts and souls through his music and movies. Frank Sinatra, an American popular singer and actor, was one of the top entertainers of the 20th century. Over a 50-year span, staring in 1,500 songs and started in almost 60 different movies made him recognized. “In 1935, Sinatra quit his newspaper job to pursue a career as a singer after attending a Bing Crosby concert.” (Monica Garving, pg. 1 of 4) Frank joined a group called the Hoboken Four, who won first place, as a quartet group on a radio station, but Frank grow homesick and departed the group to head back to Hoboken, NJ. He landed jobs around his town on local radio stations, sang with local dance bands and received a job
One night in 1937, a teenage musician named Charlie Parker joined a jam session onstage at Kansas City's Reno Club. It was a special because a big-time drummer, Jo Jones, was there. He was the drummer for Count
Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David in 1909, one of twelve children, grew up in a Chicago ghetto with his family, who fled Russian anti-Semitism. Encouraged by his father, an immigrant tailor, to learn a musical instrument, Goodman took up the clarinet at a young
Abstract—Traditional environmental parameter monitoring system are either wired or those which are wireless and has less power consumption are for short range, and if they have long range capability then they consume a lot of power and are expensive. This paper has investigated in building a long range, low power and cheap wireless parameter monitoring system with functionality to send alert to the operator on increase of any parameter beyond a predefined limit.