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Richard Huey Biography, Photos, Pictures

If performers could obtain the status of commandments, Richard Huey would probably merit inclusion in the top ten, making essential contributions to the development of sacred gospel music such as writing or co-writing classics including “Hurry Sundown” and “Rock My Soul (In the Bosom of Abraham)” as well as partnering in groundbreaking early vocal groups Richard Huey’s Jubileers and Richard Huey and His Sundown Singers

Richard Jones Biography, Photos, Pictures

The Broadway producer Richard Jones helmed some of the most famous shows in the history of musical theater, including The Music Man in 1957, The Unsinkable Molly Brown in 1960, and Funny Girl in 1964

”Richard Jones is a wild man,” said theater composer Stephen Sondheim in a discussion of different stage directors He continued: “…The set was a room with seven doors and the woods on the wallpaper

It may be a single credit for engineering in an overcrowded mob of performers with the same name, but Richard Jones can be proud of it: the album of Christmas music he created with Billy McLaughlin in 1994 has subsequently undergone five additional pressings at the bequest of a total of three different record labels

Richard M. Sherman Biography, Photos, Pictures

One of Walt Disney’s most successful songwriting teams was that of brothers Richard M and Robert B Sherman who created the music heard in Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, and many more Oscar-nominated scores for children’s films

Richard Maltby, Jr. Biography, Photos, Pictures

Richard Maltby Jr was the son of bandleader, songwriter, and arranger Richard Maltby; he also turned to music, but as a lyricist and director for stage musicals While attending Yale in the mid-’50s, he met composer David Shire, a fellow student who also was the son of a bandleader, and they formed a partnership to write songs for musicals

Richard Pierson Biography, Photos, Pictures

I was born May 24th, 1950 in Lake City, Iowa and raised on a farm in western Wisconsin, just across the St Croix River from Minnesota and the twin cities of Minneapolis and St

Richard Rodgers Biography, Photos, Pictures

Richard Rodgers was the most successful composer of popular music for the theater in the 20th century Over the course of a 60-year career, he wrote the song scores for 42 musicals staged on Broadway or in the West End, as well as 11 movie musicals and two television musicals (not counting numerous film and TV adaptations of his stage productions), along with a few instrumental works

Richard Rodney Bennett Biography, Photos, Pictures

Bennett showed early promise as an exceptional musical talent and was encouraged by his mother, a student of Holst and a skilled pianist and composer At the age of 16 he was writing 12-tone compositions, even though this technique was barely recognized in the British musical community

Rick A. Bueche Biography, Photos, Pictures

Rick Bueche is a music expert and researcher of Motown Records who has collected Motown recordings since the 60s and interviewed numerous Motown artists He writes freelance for several Louisiana publications

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