Rock And Roll Singer Del Shannon's Fame

touring her song hit number one on the radio. From their she was famous and

He was apart of one of the most known concerts ever, the Woodstock concert. Ny times says that Jerry and his group performed at the woodstock concert. The Woodstock concert was such an amazing thing in history. 400,000 people attended it. They say his voice was gentle and gleaming, as his guitar chimed. He was amazing at what he did. He did a great job and a big reason why is because he did what he loved and pushed him self. This made him so much better because when you love something

Ray Charles was born on Sept. 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia, and grew up in Greenville, Florida. At the young age of five, he began losing his sight, and became completely blind by the time he was seven. However, this did not hinder Ray Charles at all, as he continued to persevere in developing his musical talents. One of the most unique aspects of Ray Charles was his unparalleled ability to crossover different genres of music. He mixed together genres such as blues, jazz, gospel, R&B, pop, and even country. With this integration, he created smash hits such as “I Got a Woman,” “Hit the Road Jack,” and “I Can’t Stop Loving You.” When a listener listens close enough to one of Charles’ songs, aspects of the various styles he incorporated can be heard not only through the way the lyrics are

So great was the change, some of the boys in the band had trouble recognizing him. After that, Elvis didn't work for five months.

During this time Coltrane's heroin addiction increased. Once, while on tour with Gillespie's band, Coltrane passed out and had to be revived by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by another band member (18). He pawned items for money to buy drugs, and he would many times show up late for gigs. At a show in Canada, Coltrane didn't even show up (19). He finally left the band in May 1950 (Wild).

"He lived and he loved the songs that he wrote and the songs that he sang. He’s a man of great courage. He’s kind. He’s gentle and he has God-given talents. He chose a career he was hoping he could make a difference in. That career made a difference in

He had more than two thousand songs that where a hit at that time. He

In the nineteen-sixties and early seventies, a wide number of popular musicians and ordinary people died from drug overdose. Carlton was more or less expected to die this was as well, as he regularly experiments with drugs and alcohol. However, Cunningham

Boone was singing Gospel materials in 70’s. Her daughter also rose in the charts for her singing. Boone hosted some radio shows too. Some of his other hit songs are Let Me Live, Smoke on the Water and Stairway to Heaven.

Other singles which he scored with included “School Days” and “Sweet Little Sixteen”. He appeared in two rock and roll movies Rock, Rock, Rock in 1956 and as himself in Go, Johnny Go! in 1959. He performed “Sweet Little Sixteen” at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 and his performance was captured in the movie Jazz on a Summer’s Day. Trouble brewed in January of 1962 when Berry was sentenced to prison under the Mann Act for transporting a 14 year old girl across state lines.

He joined a contest hosted by Jim Reeves, (who was then an unknown vocalist). During 1951, Horton put on his first show in Pasadena. That is when he earned the nickname, “the singing fisherman”. By the end of 1951, Horton relocated to Shreveport, Louisiana. When Horton moved to Louisiana, he was called the, “Louisiana Hayride”.

Although Williams 's recordings earned him numerous country hits throughout the 1960s and early 1970s with his role as a "Hank Williams impersonator", he became disillusioned and severed ties with his mother.

     Billie Holiday spent 1934 moving up the rungs of the competitive New York bar scene. By early 1935, she made her debut at the Apollo Theater and appeared in a one-reeler film with Duke Ellington She made her first record with Benny Goodman. In 1935, she got her big breakthrough when she recorded four sides, which featured What a Little Moonlight Can Do, and Miss Brown to You. She made the songs classics because of her singing ability. Her voice-quality wasn't outstanding and her vocal range was limited, but she had an uncanny ability to breathe life into a song, using things like pauses and slurs -- which made the song become a story or an experience, rather than just a group of notes sang with a voice.

I know you’ve probably got a confused look on your face and you’re wondering who this guy is. Well you might not know his name right off but perhaps you know the song which he made popular “Sailing”. Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter whose hit ballad rose to number one on the Billboard charts on August 30, 1980. Cross came out with his self-titled debut album in January of 1980 and it included great singles such as “Ride Like the Wind” and “Sailing”. The following year 1981 “Sailing” won two Grammys one for Best Record and one for Best Song and Cross won for Best Album and Best New Artist. Cross had another number one hit with “Arthur’s Theme (The Best That You Can Do)” from the lovable comedy movie “Arthur”. The song was co-written

There are a variety of performers of the song “Dream a Little Dream of Me”. However, the bestselling and one that brought the song to popularity in the 1960’s was Cass Elliott of the well- known group called The Mamas and The Papa’s. The band sang manly a mixture of folk and pop genre in the 1960s. The voice of the group that stands out and was used for many solos was Cass Elliott otherwise known as Mama Cass. The group consisted of John Phillips, who was the leader of the band and his wife Michelle who sang soprano, Denny Doherty who sang tenor and Cass Elliot who