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Bill Beach (bowler)
William Beach may refer to: * Bill Beach (rower) (1850–1935), Australian sculler * Bill Beach (jazz musician) (born 1953), American jazz musician * Bill Beach (rockabilly musician) (born 1932), American musician * William Beach (British politician) (1783–1856) * William Beach (American politician) William Beach (c. 1815 Auburn, Cayuga County, New York – March 14, 1860 Albany, New York) was an American politician from New York. Life Beach was the son of Assemblyman John H. Beach (1783–1839), who came to Auburn from Connecticut in 1809 a ... ( 1815 – 1860) * William Beach (economist), commissioner of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics * William Dorrance Beach (1856–1932), American army officer * William Henry Beach (1871–1952), British Army officer See also * William Beech (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Beach, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Beach (rower)
William Beach (6 September 1850 – 28 January 1935) was a professional Australian sculler. He was unbeaten as World Sculling Championship (Professional), World Sculling Champion from 1884 to 1887. Beach was born in Chertsey, Surrey, England, to Alexander Beach, blacksmith, and his wife Mary, ''née'' Gibbons. Beach's family migrated to New South Wales while he was a small child and he lived at Dapto for most of his life, learning to row on Lake Illawarra. He began his sporting career in a wooden tub on the Macquarie Rivulet and ended it as champion sculler of the world. Beach trained as a blacksmith like his father and seems to have been a fisherman for a time. According to local legend, Beach won his first race as a teenager against a local publican, either for a bottle of brandy or 5Shilling (Australian), ''s''. Early rowing career Beach was said to have visited the sculler, Edward Trickett, but the date of his first race on Sydney Harbour is uncertain: the Illawarra Merc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Beach (jazz Musician)
Bill Beach (born 1953) is a jazz pianist, vocalist, and teacher. Biography In 2003, Beach began to study Brazilian music and the Portuguese language. He concentrated on the bossa nova introduced by Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, Vinicius De Moraes, Carlos Lyra and João Donato and the later MPB styles of Sergio Mendez Sergio may refer to: * Sergio (given name), for people with the given name Sergio * Sergio (carbonado), the largest rough diamond ever found * ''Sergio'' (album), a 1994 album by Sergio Blass * ''Sergio'' (2009 film), a documentary film * ''S ..., Edu Lobo, Milton Nascimento, and Ivan Lins. He released ''Letting Go'' in 2004 on his Axial Records label. This album was his debut as leader of a recording session and featured Beach singing Brazilian standards and playing original instrumentals in a piano trio setting. In 2008, Beach began writing lyrics in the Brazilian style, and his album ''Brasil Beat'' (2010) contained music and lyrics in Por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Beach (rockabilly Musician)
William "Bill" Robert Beach (aka Bill "Peg Pants" Beach, "Frog" Beach) is an American musician. Early years Beach was born on August 8, 1932 in Glencoe, Kentucky. He began his musical career as a teenager after borrowing a guitar from his cousin to learn a few chords. In 1948, he appeared several times as a guest on the country music radio show "Shorty and Sally Fincher Jamboree Show" out of Wheeling, West Virginia and traveled the region (including York, Pennsylvania, York, PA) with the WWVA Jamboree during the summer of 1948 with country music stars like Hank Williams Sr., Hank Snow and Little Jimmy Dickens. Later in 1948, he was finally able to buy his own Martin D-28 guitar. Touring with this regional country music radio station heightened his interest in music and after graduating from high school in 1951, Beach moved to Cincinnati, OH to live with his mother in hopes of pursuing a musical career. He began recording at the old Wurlitzer Music Studios in Cincinnati where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
