Tingly Bubble Shooter Game - 1. Marv Goldberg's R& B Notebooks - The Red Caps. By Marv Goldberg. Based on interviews with Romaine Brown,Jay Price, Vance Wilson, and Gerald Smith (by Marv Goldberg)Jimmy Springs and Steve Gibson (by Ray Funk). The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly (generally on Saturday nights) on ABC from January 4, 1964, to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood. Complete episodes of 'Hollywood Palace' in the order in which they originally aired. Marv Goldberg. The Red Caps were one of the most prolific and long- lived groups of the 1. While they were primarily a group that fans flocked to see in person, they had releases on many labels, using many names. There was a basic core of five singers, but members came and went at a bewildering pace. In the music world of the late 3. Mills Brothers and Ink Spots. However, other influences were also apparent in their styles. Swing and big band jazz had a tremendous impact in the 3. In parallel with this trend were the vocal groups that evolved from these combos in the 3. GAC NIGHTS- CHRISTMAS 2009 (Sugarland, Rascal Flatts, Faith Hill, Jason Aldean) GAC NIGHTS COUNTRY ULTIMATE 2010 COLLECTION (9 DVD'S) (Gretchen Wilson, Brooks & Dunn, Big & Rich, Kenny Chesney, John Hiatt. Tingly Bubble Shooter is a fun and colorful arcade bubble shooter game by Tingly. Aim the bubbles and pop matching groups of three or more. Can you reach a top score? The Red Caps By Marv Goldberg Based on interviews with Romaine Brown, Jay Price, Vance Wilson, and Gerald Smith (by Marv Goldberg) Jimmy Springs and Steve Gibson (by Ray Funk) © 2001, 2009 by Marv Goldberg The Red Caps were. Jango is about making online music social, fun and simple. Free personal radio that learns from your taste and connects you to others who like what you like. In them, all members played instruments besides vocalizing - a combination that all but disappeared from R& B by the middle 5. It was in this atmosphere that the group later known as the 5 Red Caps was born. While there were vocal groups in all cities with large black populations, in the 1. Los Angeles area because, in addition to niteclubs, theaters, and radio, there were also opportunities to work in films and cartoon soundtracks. Three of these groups had a hand in the formation of the Red Caps: the original Basin Street Boys, the 4 Blackbirds, and the 5 Jones Boys. In 1. 93. 8, they would coalesce into the 4 Toppers, the predecessor to the Red Caps. THE BASIN STREET BOYS. Steve Gibson, George Thompson, Perry Anderson and Sam Hutcherson started as the 4 Dots in Lynchburg, Virginia, in the early thirties. In the summer of 1. Jean Calloway's very successful tour. She probably met them in June, when she was appearing in West Virginia. Jean clamed to be Cab Calloway's sister or cousin, but Cab was annoyed enough at his siblings Elmer and Blanche for capitalizing on his name; he singled out Jean, who was also doing it and who, he said, wasn't even related to him.) She renamed them the Basin Street Rhythm Boys, although they had never been anywhere near New Orleans (it was just a more salable name). They were mentioned in a September 2. Calloway. Strangely, the article said, "Their name is associated with the motion picture production 'Murder At The Vanities,' in which they were featured in a novelty 'spot'." However, this movie was released in May 1. Basin Street Boys weren't within 2. Hollywood, and they aren't listed in the cast (nor is there even a routine in the film that they might have appeared in under any name). Leaving her after three months (when the tour was in the southwest), they first went to Phoenix, and then to Los Angeles, where they became somewhat famous (under their truncated name: "Basin Street Boys"), since there were reports of them in the Pittsburgh Courier. For example, it was reported in June 1. Samuel Hutchinson [sic] went back to Lynchburg to see his sick mother. In 1. 93. 7, they appeared on the Mutual Broadcasting System on Wednesdays and Fridays. November of that year found them at the Ten O One Club in Los Angeles and they were at the Tivoli Theater in February 1. The Pittsburgh Courier reported, on December 1. Basin Street Boys had been signed by Million Dollar Productions to be in a musical starring Ralph Cooper. This would turn out to be "The Duke Is Tops" (re- released years later as "Bronze Venus"). It also had Lena Horne and the Cats & The Fiddle. And, if you've never seen it, "Duke" has nothing to do with Duke Ellington.)In April 1. Swing- Hi Club in Los Angeles due to non- payment of $1. Since it wasn't the first complaint against the club, the labor commission closed it down. I'm not sure what happened to them after this (Steve Gibson had joined the 4 Toppers by late 1. Old Absinthe House at the New York World's Fair in August 1. They were not the Basin Street Boys who recorded "I Sold My Heart To The Junkman," but we'll touch on that group a bit later. There is a single known (and extremely raunchy) recording by this group, which also did radio shows (over KPMC in Bakersfield, California), voices for cartoons, and some films: Films: Swing, Monkey, Swing - 1. Columbia cartoon - general scatting and instrument imitating; also part of the "St. Louis Blues" number. Shall We Dance - 1. RKO - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - part of the ensemble (along with the Plantation Boys) singing "Slap That Bass"with Fred Astaire (however, the only one I can pick out is Steve Gibson; the main singer is Dudley Dickerson)The Duke Is Tops - 1. Million Dollar Productions (re- released as Bronze Venus) - with Lena Horne - "Thursday Evening Swing"(still being shown in black theaters in 1. The Isle Of Pingo Pongo - 1. Warner Brothers cartoon - "Sweet Georgia Brown"Recordings: RACYHS- 4. Come John Come/ (same title on the flip) - 1. THE 4 BLACKBIRDS. The members of the 4 Blackbirds were Geraldine Harris, first tenor; David Patillo, second tenor; Leroy Hurte baritone and guitar; and Richard Davis, bass. Supposedly they all attended Los Angeles' Jefferson High (from which many great 5. R& B groups would emerge), but it couldn't have been at the same time, since Richard was around six years older than the others. Note that Leroy Hurte would go on to purchase the Bronze label in Los Angeles in 1. By that same year, Richard Davis had married Geraldine Harris. From the fall of 1. Blackbirds were extremely popular on Los Angeles radio. They appeared on KFI and, later, on KECA. They were part of Irvin S. Cobb's "Paducah Plantation" radio show and were selected to appear on Bing Crosby's very first outing on the "Kraft Music Hall" (on January 2, 1. On March 3, 1. 93. Los Angeles Urban League. A newspaper article claimed that they'd be in Start Cheering, a Jimmy Durante comedy/musical, but they don't show up in the credits. The Internet Movie Database says that dancer Jeni Le. Gon and the 4 Blackbirds are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie.) Another article says that the 4 Blackbirds would be part of Harlem On The Prairie, a black western with Herb Jeffries and the 4 Tones. Unfortunately, there were two groups in Los Angeles called the 4 Blackbirds, and the one in that movie consisted of James Davis, Edward Brandon, Reginald Anderson, and Jack Williams. The 4 Blackbirds made several films and several records. Films: Memories And Melodies - 1. M- G- M short featuring Stephen Foster tunes; no cast listed The Music Goes 'Round - 1. Columbia - not in credits. Clean Pastures - 1. Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies cartoon take- off on Green Pastures - they do "Half Of Me Wants To Be Good"and "Swing For Sale", as well as general background singing and imitations of Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and Louis Armstrong. Have You Got Any Castles - 1. Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies cartoon - "Swing For Sale" was taken from Clean Pastures. Mother Goose Goes Hollywood - 1. Walt Disney Silly Symphonies cartoon - general singing in the "Little Boy Blue" number Recordings: VOCALION (subsidiary of Columbia)2. Miss Otis Regrets/Dixie Rhythm - 3/3. Moonglow/Black Eyed Susan Brown - 5/3. Louisville Lady/Basin Street Blues - 7/3. MELOTONE (subsidiary of Columbia - - Cliff Edwards & 4 Blackbirds)1. It's An Old Southern Custom/Hunkadola - 4/3. I Got Shoes - You Got Shoesies/I Was Born Too Late - 6/3. Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards was the voice of Jiminy Cricket in "Pinoccio") THE 5 JONES BOYS. Originally the Dixie Cotton Pickers from Carbondale, Illinois, they came to L. A. in the mid 3. 0s. Lead tenor Jimmy Springs was joined by William Hartley, Herman Wood, Louis Wood, and Charles Hopkins. They hooked up with Gene Autry and were on his National Barn Dance radio show and some of his tours. In a January 1. 93. Mills Brothers." Later that year, they toured with Duke Ellington (as they did in 1. Los Angeles' Cotton Club). The 5 Jones Boys were occasionally part of a syndicated radio program called "The Laff Parade", hosted by Ken Niles. One reviewer of a 1. Mills Brothers. They made several appearances from 1. They were in several films (those from 1. Variety. In Ali Baba Comes To Town (an uncredited performance) they're part of a black cast that included the Plantation Boys, Richard Davis, David Patillo, guitarist Oscar Moore, Ormonde Wilson (a member of the Plantation Boys, whom we'll meet later on), and two future Delta Rhythm Boys: Clifford Holland, and Carl Jones. The chorus was directed by Leon René and Earl Dancer. Films: Can This Be Dixie - 1. Century- Fox - provide the "music" while Jane Withers dances - they sing "Uncle Tom's Cabin Is A Cabaret Now"Racing Blood - 1. Conn Pictures (as the Jones Quintette) - "You're So Appealing" and "Lucky Shoes"The Big Show - 1. Republic (as the Jones Boys) - with Gene Autry - "The Lady Known As Lulu"Hollywood Party - 1. M- G- M (as the Jones Boys) - "Chinatown, My Chinatown"Ali Baba Comes To Town - 1. Century- Fox - with Eddie Cantor - part of the "Swing Is Here To Sway" number, along with the. Plantation Boys, and dancer Jeni Le. Gon. Recordings: VARIETY5. Doin' The Suzi- Q/Mr. Ghost Goes To Town - 4/3. Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch/My Gal Mezzanine - 6/3. THE JONES BOYS SING BAND. Leon René, who would later own the Exclusive label (as well as write "When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano" and "Gloria"), put the 4 Blackbirds and 5 Jones Boys together to form a large chorus called the Jones Boys Sing Band. A "sing band" is a group that uses voices to imitate instruments.) The only one missing from this aggregation was Blackbird Geraldine Harris (who may have quit show business when she married Richard Davis), but added, at least in movies, Steve Gibson, of the Basin Street Boys. The guitarist was Oscar Moore (who would later join the King Cole Trio). They not only imitated instruments, but since there were so many voices, they had "sections" of various horns.
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