Biography: Walter Scharf, Weird Al Yankovic, Westlife, Wham!, Wild Orchid, Wilfred Josephs, Will H. Schaefer, Will McMillan, William Clark, William Daniels,

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Walter Scharf Biography, Photos, Pictures

Film and television composer Walter Scharf was born August 1, 1910, in New York City; his mother, Bessie Zwerling, was among the most popular comediennes starring in the New York Yiddish Theater

Weird Al Yankovic Biography, Photos, Pictures

The foremost song parodist of the MTV era, “Weird Al” Yankovic carried the torch of musical humor more proudly and more successfully than any performer since Allan Sherman

In the tradition of British and Irish boy bands like Take That and Boyzone comes Dublin’s Westlife, a quintet consisting of Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne, Bryan McFadden, Mark Feehily, and Kian Egan

Wham!
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Genre:Pop

Wham! sparked something of a pop revival in the mid-’80s and could arguably be held responsible for sparking off the boy band trend of the ’90s They were unashamedly pop, to the point of padding the front of their trousers for television appearances

Wild Orchid is a teen-oriented dance-pop group that gained a small following in the mid-’90s The three members of Wild Orchid — Stacy Ferguson (born March 27, 1975, Whittier, CA), Stefanie Ridel (born May 17, 1973), and Renee Sandstrom (born February 15, 1974, Worchester, MA) — met as children, and decided to form a group after they acted together in the Nickelodeon show Kids Incorporated and sang backup for Martika

Wilfred Josephs Biography, Photos, Pictures

Wilfred Josephs was a composer whose career carried him from the concert hall to the movie and television soundstage Born in Newcastle in 1927, he prepared for a career as a dentist but never abandoned an early and abiding interest in music

Will H. Schaefer Biography, Photos, Pictures

Composer and arranger Will Schaefer wrote for hundreds of films, television series, and commercials, highlighted by stints with animation icons Hanna-Barbera and Walt Disney

Will McMillan Biography, Photos, Pictures

This Sondheim tribute is actually a soundtrack itself, taken from McMillan’s one-man show in which he begins as a tuxedoed man and gradually transforms himself into a woman and then back into a man

William Clark Biography, Photos, Pictures

The name William Clark appears in the music business with the frequency of criminals at a bail bondsman’s office Thankfully for discographers, confusing one Bill Clarke with another William Clark is not an offense punishable with jail time, even if the mistake is way out on a limb — mixing up, for example, the reggae artist William “Bunny” Clarke of “Bush Weed Contrash” fame with the famous American explorer William Clark

William Daniels Biography, Photos, Pictures

On recordings, the American actor William Daniels can be heard on original soundtracks such as the historical 1776 and the visionary On a Clear Day You Can See Forever He has little chance of being confused with singer Billy Daniels, he of “That Old Black Magic,” but the two Daniels come from similar dens of courage in terms of hardworking show business traditions

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