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Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (shortened to Dr. Hook in 1975) is an American rock band formed in Union City, New Jersey.The band had commercial success in the 1970s with hit singles "Sylvia's Mother" (1972), "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" (1973), "Only Sixteen" (1976), "A Little Bit More" (1976), "Sharing the Night Together" (1978), "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" (1979), and ...
John Wooton marched in the snare line [1] of the Phantom Regiment from 1981 to 1984. [2] During his time in the corps he won the Drum Corps Midwest Individual Snare Drum title and the Percussive Arts Society Snare Drum Individual title [3] in 1983. [4] He attended the University of Louisiana Lafayette and earned a Bachelor of Music in 1985. [5]
Former home of Professor Longhair, in 2015. Byrd was born on December 19, 1918, in Bogalusa, Louisiana, [2] the son of Ella Mae (née Rhodes) and James Byrd. His distinctive style of piano playing was influenced by learning to play on an instrument that was missing some keys.
"Big Chief" is a song composed by Earl King in the early 1960s. It became a hit in New Orleans for Professor Longhair in 1964, [1] featuring a whistled first chorus in a rollicking blues piano style and subsequent lyrics written in mock-American-Indian pidgin (whistled and sung by King, uncredited).
John M. Chowning (/ ˈ tʃ aʊ n ɪ ŋ /; born August 22, 1934, in Salem, New Jersey) is an American composer, musician, discoverer, and professor best known for his work at Stanford University, the founding of CCRMA – Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in 1975 and his development of the digital implementation of FM synthesis and the digital sound spatialization while there.
In a Sentimental Mood is the twelfth album by New Orleans singer and pianist Dr. John. It spent eleven weeks on the Billboard 200 charts, peaking at No. 142 on July 8, 1989. It spent eleven weeks on the Billboard 200 charts, peaking at No. 142 on July 8, 1989.
John Bull in c. 1589, portrait kept at the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments. John Bull (1562/63 – 12/13 March 1628) was an English composer, organist, virginalist and organ builder. [1]
John Romulus Brinkley (later John Richard Brinkley; July 8, 1885 – May 26, 1942) was an American quack. He had no accredited education as a physician and bought his medical degree from a diploma mill .