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William Jones Biography, Photos, Pictures

The name may seem common to the point of tedium, but the Internet Broadway Data Base only lists two Broadway shows in history involving performers named William Jones One took place between 1943 and 1945, when a child actor of this name played a dual role as a tough kid and another kid who wasn’t particularly tough in the show Carmen Jones

William Tilland Biography, Photos, Pictures

Somewhere around 1985, I experienced a musical revelation Prior to that date, I had been feeding my musical passions in an apparently random fashion, obsessing over street-corner vocal groups and R&B in the late 50’s, folk blues and old-time country in the early 60’s, psychedelic rock in the late 60’s, and avant garde jazz in the 70’s — until I wasn’t even sure WHAT I liked

Willie Barnes Biography, Photos, Pictures

Alabama native Wiley Barner (he was also known as Willie Barnes) was born April 28, 1900 (some sources list the birth year as 1899) He recorded two songs (“My Gal Treats Me Mean” and “If You Want a Good Woman - Get One Long and Tall”) in Birmingham, AL, on August 15, 1927, for Gennett Records

My entire life has been built on three pillars: music, english skills and technology I have studied English because I wanted to understand the lyrics John Lennon sang in “Imagine” and Robert Plant in “Stairway to Heaven”

Wilson Phillips Biography, Photos, Pictures

A female vocal trio consisting of Carnie and Wendy Wilson (daughters of Beach Boy Brian Wilson) and Chynna Phillips (daughter of John and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas)

Windy City Gay Chorus Biography, Photos, Pictures

This chorus is a stunning example of the revival of male choral singing in North America The Windy City Gay Chorus’ precision, flexibility of style, warmth of color, well-balanced tone, firm diction, and meticulous attention to detail add up to what some have termed the finest male chorus in the country

Wojciech Kilar Biography, Photos, Pictures

The recipient of numerous international awards, including the Lili Boulanger Memoria Fund Award of Boston (1960), and two awards from the Polish Minister of Culture in 1967 and 1976, Wojciech Kilar is one of Poland’s most famous and highly respected composers

Before he emerged as one of the foremost American filmmakers of the 20th century, Woody Allen was a stand-up comic Although his tenure as a performing comedian was relatively short-lived, its importance to the development of his later work was pivotal; on stage and on record, Allen honed to perfection the uniquely neurotic and uniquely New York sensibility which became the hallmarks of his career as an actor, writer and director, firmly establishing the self-deprecating, awkward persona which long defined him in the eyes of the moviegoing public

Worm
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Worm is a one-of-a-kind vocal/songwriting duo of twins: a gay brother and a lesbian sister On their debut release, they tap an analog synth production sound that hearkens back to Yaz and early Eurythmics

Walter Jurmann Biography, Photos, Pictures

Vienna-born Walter Jurmann’s career as a composer and songwriter took him from Berlin, where he made his name in the 1920s and early ’30s writing hits for Richard Tauber and others, to exile and still greater success in Paris, and finally to America by way of Hollywood beginning in early 1935

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