McKenna Musical Jubilee

Monday, September 17, 2018,  Audio, Photo, 1920  No comments

Life And Times Of Peggy Lee Part Five

Life And Times Of Peggy Lee Part Five

Theirs not mush else to type about, except for her albums, films TV shows, which is long enough for a full blog, of over 300 hundred words, not many can I think of can do that on my website(wait, and see who else can do that). This is the conclusion of Peggy Lee, I hope you like her, like I like her(my girlfriend would kill me if I say love). This blog’s name is Life And Times Of Peggy Lee Part Five,( I hope it the blog’s name, for I was never introduce to it)...

Monday, September 17, 2018,  1912, 1910, Audio, Photo  No comments

Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Six

Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Six

Theirs so much about Perry Como that five blogs  couldn’t hold, so in this blog entitled Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Six, I’m going to type to you about his radio days and how well he was doing it, then let’s hear his album afterwards. I hope you like what you hear, because I have another one I’m doing, but it’s in the draft mold, so I’ll have it done very soon.

RCA Victor and radio

Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Six

Arriving in Chicago for performances in 1947, Como is

met by his young fans, who get a trim along with a song.

The Comos’ first child, Ronnie, was born in 1940 while the Weems band was working in Chicago...

Sunday, September 16, 2018,  Audio, Photo, 1920  No comments

Life And Times Of Peggy Lee Part Four

Life And Times Of Peggy Part four

I know I did a blog of her just yesterday, but I just bought a new album, and I want you to listen to it. It’s easy to listen to her that I thought you would feel the same, so let’s get started and start on Life And Times Of Peggy Lee Part Four, and I’ll do the conclusion of her life tomorrow. Cheer up, that only means the second dice will also be there, and it isn’t an Christmas album.

Personal life

Peggy Lee was married four times; each marriage ended in divorce:

* Guitarist and composer Dave Barbour (1943–1951); daughter Nicki Lee Foster (1943–2014)

* Actor Brad Dexter (1953)

* Actor Dewey Martin (1956–1958)

* Bandleader and percussionist Jack Del Rio (1964–1965)

Retirement and death

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Sunday, September 16, 2018,  1912, 1910, Audio, Photo  No comments

Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Five

Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Five

Como in 1939, when he was with

The Ted Weems Orchestra.

I really like Perry Como, for I have six albums, which is two more than Peggy Lee(actually, I had  three albums of Peggy Lee, until this morning, now it’s three and the fourth is a double album, Perry Como has). So let’s get started with Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Five, so I can upload an album(which I uploaded this week for this blog which I’ll be uploading today).

Three years after joining the Carlone band, Como moved to Ted Weems’s Orchestra and his first recording dates. Como and Weems met in 1936 while the Carlone orchestra was playing in Warren, Ohio. Perry initially did not take the offer to join Weems’s orchestra...

Saturday, September 15, 2018,  Audio, Photo, 1920  No comments

Life And Times Of Peggy Lee Part Three

Life And Times Of Peggy Lee Part Three

I know it’s been awhile, but I haven’t been on my website for that long, so that makes it even. In my new blog Life And Times Of Peggy Lee, I’m going to type about her song writing, afterwards you can hear her Christmas album, which I wanted to upload last Christmas, but at less the thought was there and now you can play her album for this year and every Christmas to come (pretend you read this blog last year, so I can pretend that I diid, and the of us can be happy[please]).

Songwriting

Lee was a successful songwriter, with songs from the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp, for which she also supplied the singing and speaking voices of four characters...

Saturday, September 15, 2018,  1912, 1910, Audio, Photo  No comments

Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Four

PERRY COMO, 1954

In this blog Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Four, I’m going to get personal in his life, so please read my blog and listen to an album I uploaded from iTunes which means those who have Androids, can finally get to hear music, instead of the whistle that is on the bottom of your toy phone, but I’m not biased on either phone, just because I have an iPhone, doesn’t have anything to do with my unbiased views of either one. So take out your thumb from your mouth and drop your blanket, for you can hear actual music from iTunes.

Personal life

One of the many factors in his success was Como’s insistence on his principles of good taste; if he considered something to be in bad or questionable taste, it was not in the show or broadcast...

Saturday, September 15, 2018,  Audio, Film, Photo, 1925, 1927  No comments

Musical Films Of 1927

Musical Films Of 1927

The Jazz Singer released October 6, starring Al Jolson.

Musical Films Of 1927 has only one musical movie and that is The Jazz Singer, in fact it’s the very first talkie and since I’m typing you about it, it’s also the first musical move. In 1927, only one film was a musical, and that’s The Jazz Singer. From the beginning of the movie industry, 1927 was the first year that had music in it which is still talked about today. It’s still a silent movie, so I’m sure you might not want to read the subtitles, but then I watch foreign movies so silent movies is just the same. The story is dated and it moves slow, but I still had to buy the album, because this website will have an album on each blog I do...

Saturday, September 15, 2018,  Audio, Photo, 1930, 1932  No comments

The Talented Life Of John Williams Part Three

The Talented Life Of John Williams Part Three

Williams at the Boston Symphony Hall after

conducting the Boston Pops, May 2006

I Know that I should have done more of John Williams before,  but I’ve been away and now I’m catching up with all my favorites, who were born from 1920 to 1945, so let me get started on The Talented Life Of John Williams Part Three, and let’s see what I have in my next blog. I hope you like it, and I do have the third disc of his album, with Steven Spielberg.

While skilled in a variety of 20th century compositional idioms, Williams’s most familiar style may be described as a form of neoromanticism, inspired by the late 19th century’s large-scale orchestral music—in the style of Tchaikovsky or Richard Wagner‘s composit...

Wednesday, September 12, 2018,  Audio, Photo  No comments

Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Three

I’m ready to do Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Three, and I’m preparing for Part Four as I typing this one. I know that I haven’t done one for awhile, but I’m hoping to do more real soon.I have a lot of albums of Perry Como, six to be exact, and I’m hoping to put them all on my website. Now that is straight, let’s get started with Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Three.

Life And Times Of Perry Como Part Three

Marriage and family

The Comos at home c. 1955. On the sofa are his

older son Ronnie and wife Roselle. In the chair

with her doll is his daughter, Terri, and reading

on the floor are son David and his Dad.

In 1929, the 17-year-old Como met Roselle Belline at a picnic on Chartiers Creek that attracted many young people from the Canonsburg ar...

Wednesday, September 12, 2018,  Audio, Photo, 1930, 1931  No comments

The Talented Della Reese Part Two

The Talented Della Reese Part Two

I have to tell you that, Della Reese is one of many reasons why I got this website, it’s meanly because I can find more information about my favorite performer, singers, and later my favorite bands In this blog, I’ll be typing you, The Talented Della Reese Part Two, and it’s the Two that you should know will follow Three, which will be soon this week, or two. I’m trying to space them out so it be more verity.I have some new albums, so I’ll be typing more blogs. So we shall start The Talented Della Reese Part Two, now.

Della Reese was discovered by the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, and her big break came when she won a contest, which gave her a week to sing at Detroit’s well-known Flame Show Bar...