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Ruth Etting

                  Ruth Etting on the cover of Radio Mirror magazine, June 1932.   Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star of the 1930s, who had over sixty hit recor...

The Boswell Sisters

The Boswell Sisters were a close harmony singing group that attained national prominence in the USA in the 1930s. Sisters Martha Boswell (June 9, 1905 - July 2, 1958), Connee Boswell (December 3, 1907 - October 11, 1976), and Helvetia "Vet" Bos...

Annette Hanshaw

Birth name Annette Hanshaw Born October 18, 1901 Origin USA Died March 13, 1985 Genre(s)Jazz Occupation(s) Singer Instrument(s) Vocals Annette Hanshaw was one of the first great female jazz singers. In the late 1920s she ranked alongside Ethel...

Lee Morse

Birth name: Lena Corinne Taylor Born: November 30, 1897 (1897-11-30) Origin: Portland, Oregon Died: December 16, 1954 (aged 57) Genre(s): Jazz, Blues Occupation(s): Singer, Actress Instrument(s): vocals, guitar Years active: 1923-1953 Label(s): Pathe...

Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys

With her sleek bob haircut (usually with a flower or two placed just so), vintage dresses, strikingly beautiful looks, and artfully customized ukulele, Janet Klein might seem at first to be a simple novelty act, a Generation X hipster ironically recr...

Gene Austin

Gene Austin June 24, 1900-January 24, 1972 was an American singer and songwriter who is considered to have been the first "crooner". Background information Birth name: Gene Austin Born: June 24, 1900 Origin: Gainesville, Texas Died: January 24, 19...

Al Bowlly

Albert Allick 'Al' Bowlly (January 7, 1897/1899(?)–April 17, 1941) was a popular singer in the United Kingdom during the 1930s, making more than 1,000 recordings between 1927 and 1941. Bowlly was born in Mozambique to Greek and Lebanese paren...

Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Born on May 3, 1903, was an American popular singer and actor whose career lasted until his death on October 14, 1977. Background information Birth name: Harry Lillis Crosby Born: May 3, 1903(1903-05-03) Tacoma, WA, USA D...

Russ Columbo

Ruggero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (January 14, 1908–September 2, 1934), better known by the name Russ Columbo, was an American singer, violinist and actor, most famous for his signature tune, "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love,"...

Seger Ellis

Background information Born: c. 1940 Houston, Texas Died: 1995, Houston, Texas Genre(s): Jazz Instrument(s): Voice, Piano                               Seger Ellis was a jazz...

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Smith Ballew

Date of Birth: 21 January 1902, Palestine, Texas Date of Death: 2 May 1984, Longview, Texas One of the finest singers of the Crooner era, Smith Ballew was nicknamed theTexas Troubadour. Born in Palestine, Texas, Ballew made his way to New York City a...

Fats Waller

Background Information Birth name: Thomas Wright Waller Born: 21 May 1904 Origin: New York City Died: 15 December 1943 (aged 39) Genre: Jazz Occupation(s): Pianist, singer, organist

Louis Armstrong

 Birth Name  Louis Daniel Armstrong Also known as Satchmo, Pops Born August 4, 1901 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Died July 6, 1971 (aged 69) Corona, Queens, New York City, NY, USA Genre(s) Jazz Dixieland Swing music Traditional po...

The Talking Machine

victrola (plural victrolas) In common usage, any upright or console model phonograph from the early 1900s, usually with a wooden cabinet body and an interior horn for the projection of sound, that plays 78 rpm records using a steel needle.

The Jumping Flea

The ukulele (Hawaiian: ukulele, IPA pronunciation: ukulele, sometimes spelled ukelele (particularly in the UK) or uke, is a chordophone classified as a plucked lute; it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four strings or f...

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The Jazz Age

The Jazz Age describes the period from 1918-1929, the years between the end of World War I and the start of the Roaring Twenties; ending with the rise of the Great Depression, the traditional values of this age saw great decline while the American st...

Cigarette Cards

Cigarette cards are trade cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands. History Beginning in 1875, cards depicting actresses, baseball players, Indian chiefs, and boxers were issued by the Al...

Nancy Cunard

Nancy Clare Cunard (March 10, 1896 - March 17, 1965) was an English writer, editor and publisher, political activist, anarchist and poet. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family's values, devoting much of her life t...

Vintage Sheet Music

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SHEET MUSIC People have always loved music. It is said that almost anywhere one goes in the world, there will be somebody playing some kind of rhythm and tune, even if it is just hitting two sticks together! In the early 1900s, p...

Fatty Arbuckle

Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle Born: March 24, 1887-03-24 Smith Center, Kansas, U.S. Died: June 29, 1933 (age 46) New York, New York, U.S. Other name(s): Fatty Arbuckle Years active: 1909-1933 Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle, also known as Fatty Arbuckle (M...

The Pansy Craze

The Pansy Craze was a period in the late 1920s and early 1930s in which gay clubs and performers (known as pansy performers) experienced a surge in underground popularity in the United States. In this period, there were drag performers such as Ray B...

Bessie Love

Bessie Love c. 1916 Born Juanita Horton September 10, 1898 Midland, Texas Died April 26, 1986 (aged 87) London, England Spouse(s) William Hawks

Jack Johnson

Statistics: Real name Arthur John Johnson Nickname(s) Galveston Giant Rated at Heavyweight Height 6 ft 1.5 in (187 cm) Reach 74 in (190 cm) Nationality American Birth date March 31, 1878 Birth place Galveston, Texas Death date: June 10, 1946 (aged 6...

Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 - February 2, 1961) was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, televisio...

Marilyn Miller

Marilyn Miller (September 1, 1898 - April 7, 1936) was one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s. She was an accomplished tap dancer, singer and actress, but it was the combination of these talents that endeared her...

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Holly Woodlawn

Woodlawn (born Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl on October 26, 1946) is a transvestite and former Warhol superstar, who appeared in his movies Trash (1970) and Women in Revolt (1972). Her life was summarized by Lou Reed in his song Walk...

Little Joe

Birth name: Joseph Angelo (Joe) D'allesandro Born: December 31, 1948, Pensacola, Florida Joseph Angelo D'allesandro III Joe Dallesandro is an American actor. Although he never became a mainstream star, Dallesandro is generally considered to be the m...

andy warhol

Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987), better known as Andy Warhol, was an artist who became a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself. ~Andy War...

Viva

V I V A Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann was born on August 23, 1938 in Syracuse, New York. She is an actress, artist, writer, and a former Warhol superstar.

Jackie Curtis

Born: February 19, 1947 Died: May 15, 1985 John Holder Jr., better known as Jackie Curtis, was a famous transgendered film star, poet and playwright. Life Curtis was born in New York City to John Holder, Sr. and Italian-American Jenevive Uglialoro,...

Brigid Berlin

Brigid Berlin (also known as Brigid Polk born September 6, 1939) is an artist and former Warhol superstar.

Andrea "Whips" Feldman

Born April 1, 1948 Died August 8, 1972 (aged 24) New York City, New York, United States Other name(s) Andrea "Whips" Feldman Andrea Feldman was an actor and Warhol superstar. A native New Yorker, she starred in several of Warhol's underground movies...

Candy Darling

Candy Darling born James Lawrence Slattery on November 24, 1944-March 21, 1974) was an American Warhol superstar. A pre-operative transsexual, she starredin Andy Warhol's films Flesh (1968) and Women in Revolt (1971), and was a muse of the protopunk...

Ivy Nicholson

ACTOR. MODEL. SINGER. WARHOL SUPERSTAR. **I am currently looking for more information on Ivy Nicholson for this page. If you have any additional biographical information, photos, videos, sound files, stories etc., PLEASE CONTACT ME. IVY WAS -...

nico icon

Christa Paffgen (16 October 1938 - 18 July 1988) was a German musician, fashion model, actress, and Warhol Superstar who is best known by her stage name Nico. She is renowned for both her tenure in The Velvet Underground and for her work as a solo a...

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Robert Desnos

  Robert Desnos was a French poet who joined André Breton in the early Surrealist movement, soon becoming one of its most valuable members because of his ability to fall into a hypnotic trance, under which he could recite his dreams, wri...

Kent Taylor

Born November 8, 1940, New Castle, PA. Medical Research, Poet, Sprinter. Lives in San Francisco, CA.

E. E Cummings

"After a couple of brandies on top of the wine Cummings would deliver himself of geysers of talk. I've never heard anything that remotely approached it. It was comical ironical brilliantly colored damnably poetic and sometimes just naughty. It was a...

Andre Breton

Andre Breton (February 19, 1896 - September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pu...

d.a. levy

d.a. levy (October 29, 1942 - November 24, 1968), born Darryl Allan Levy, was an American artist, poet and alternative publisher active during the 1960s, based in Cleveland, Ohio. levy described himself as the Lake Erie "toilet lama". Biography lev...