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The Chopsticks
The Chopsticks was a short-lived female duo in Hong Kong. They were the first all-female modern music singing group to be marketed and launched from Hong Kong. They started singing in the late 1960s with HK English pop songs and were contracted with the local Crown Records between 1969 and 1972, having a release total of four LP albums and not more than 10 SP/EPs. In 1973, the duo split and both Sandra Lang Sandra Lang (, born ) is a former Chinese Cantopop singer who was active in the 1970s and actress in Hong Kong. Lang is credited with over 25 films. Early life In 1953, Lang was born in the United States. Career During the late 1960s, Lang ... and Amina went solo. Discography References Hong Kong musical groups Chinese musical groups English-language singers from Hong Kong Hong Kong girl groups Hong Kong idols Female musical duos Musical groups disestablished in 1973 1973 disestablishments in Hong Kong {{HongKong-band-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Townsend
Edward Benjamin 'Ed' Townsend (April 16, 1929 – August 13, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, producer and attorney. He performed and composed "For Your Love", a rhythm and blues doo wop classic, and co-wrote "Let's Get It On" with Marvin Gaye. Biography Townsend was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, United States, and his family soon moved to Memphis where his father was pastor at an African Methodist Episcopal church. The year Townsend graduated from high school, he was elected to the International American Methodist Episcopal Youth Council (IAMEYC) and traveled worldwide before enrolling in college the next year at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (formerly Arkansas AM&N College). After graduating, he taught for a year. Although he never formally practiced law, he frequently used his law training to assist other entertainers in negotiating their recording and performance contracts. In 1951, Townsend joined the United States Marine Corps and served in Korea. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)
"Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)" is a popular rock novelty song written in late 1954 by the rhythm and blues partnership of Forest Gene Wilson and Eunice Levy,Malcolm Mcfarlane and Ken Crossland, ''Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record'' (McFarland, 2009):97. and also credited to Jake Porter. One of the earliest rock and roll songs,Larry Birnbaum, ''Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012):312. it was probably "the most extensively recorded rock 'n' roll song of that time".Charlie Gillett, ''The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll'', rev. ed. (Pantheon Books, 1984):53. Originally recorded by rhythm and blues duo Gene and Eunice (Wilson and Levy) in November 1954 on the Combo label and again in January 1955 on the Aladdin label, it was covered by at least 17 different musicians in the first few months of 1955 alone, including Perry Como, The Crew-Cuts, The Charms, Louis Armstrong and Gary Crosby, Goldie Hill & Red Sovine, Hawks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DuBose Hayward
DuBose or Dubose can refer to: Surname * Artist Dubose (born 1995), American rapper known professionally as A Boogie wit da Hoodie * Demetrius DuBose (1971–1999), American football player *Doug DuBose (born 1964), American football player *Eric DuBose (born 1976), American Baseball player * Grant DuBose (born 2001), American football player *Hampden Coit DuBose (1845–1910), Presbyterian missionary in China * Horace Mellard DuBose (1858–1941), American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church *Jimmy DuBose (born 1954), American football player *Judith DuBose (1698-1769), Colonial American heiress * Kristi DuBose (born 1964), American jurist and judge *Mike DuBose (born 1953), American football player * Samuel Vincent DuBose (c. 1972–2015), shooting victim, Cincinnati, Ohio *Thomas DuBose (1902-1992,) US Air Force officer * William DuBose (politician) (c. 1786–1855), American politician from South Carolina *William Porcher DuBose (1836–1918), American priest and theologia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gershwin
George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ''Rhapsody in Blue'' (1924) and ''An American in Paris'' (1928), the songs " Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the jazz standards "Embraceable You" (1928) and "I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera ''Porgy and Bess'' (1935), which included the hit " Summertime". Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody. He began his career as a song plugger but soon started composing Broadway theater works with his brother Ira Gershwin and with Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris, intending to study with Nadia Boulanger, but she refused him, afraid that rigorous classical study would ruin his jazz-influenced style; Maurice Ravel voiced similar objections when Gershwin inq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summertime (George Gershwin Song)
"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera ''Porgy and Bess''. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel '' Porgy'' on which the opera was based, and Ira Gershwin. The song soon became a popular and much-recorded jazz standard, described as "without doubt ... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote ... Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century". Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim characterized Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" and "My Man's Gone Now" as "the best lyrics in the musical theater". ''Porgy and Bess'' Gershwin began composing the song in December 1933, attempting to create his own spiritual in the style of the African American folk music of the period. Gershwin had completed setting DuBose Heyward's poem to music by February 1934, and spent the next 20 months completing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malagueña Salerosa
— also known as — is a well-known Son Huasteco or Huapango song from Mexico, which has been cover version, covered more than 200 times by recording artists. The song is that of a man telling a woman (from Málaga, Spain) how beautiful she is, and how he would love to be her man, but that he understands her rejecting him for being too poor. is attributed to Elpidio Ramírez and Pedro Galindo, Music publisher (popular music), published by Ralph Peer, Peer International in 1947 in music, 1947 (monitored by Broadcast Music Incorporated, BMI), although Mexican composer Nicandro Castillo questions the validity of that authorship. As he mentions: : The issue is controversial because ... [ composer] don Nicandro Castillo wrote that several tunes from la Huasteca which in decades past were known as , composed by Elpidio Ramírez, Roque Ramírez and Pedro Galindo, were actually anonymous songs, as was the case of and , which like or , were in the public domain, written "long befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Newman (composer)
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 45 times, contributing to the extended Newman family being the most Academy Award-nominated family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include ''Wuthering Heights'', ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', '' The Mark of Zorro'', ''How Green Was My Valley'', '' The Song of Bernadette'', ''Captain from Castile'', ''All About Eve'', '' Love is a Many Splendored Thing'', ''Anastasia'', ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', '' How The West Was Won'', ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'', and his final score, ''Airport'', all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yesterday (Beatles Song)
"Yesterday" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was first released on the album ''Help!'' in August 1965, except in the United States, where it was issued as a single in September. The song reached number one on the US charts. It subsequently appeared on the UK EP '' Yesterday'' in March 1966 and made its US album debut on '' Yesterday and Today'', in June 1966. McCartney's vocal and acoustic guitar, together with a string quartet, essentially made for the first solo performance of the band. It remains popular today and, with more than 2,200 cover versions, is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music. "Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. 1 pop song of all time by MTV and ''Rolling Stone'' magazine the following year. In 1997, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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