Cybill Shepherd is an American actress and former model. Her film debut and breakthrough role came as Jacy Farrow in Peter Bogdanovich’s coming-of-age drama The Last Picture Show (1971) alongside Jeff Bridges. in 1974, Shepherd again teamed up with Peter Bogdanovich for the title role in Daisy Miller, based on the Henry James novella. That […]
5000 Volts
5000 Volts is the name of a British disco recording act that achieved success throughout Europe during the 1970s. The group consisted of vocalists Tina Charles and Martin Jay, with a changing group of session musicians. They released several singles in the mid-1970s, but did not achieve success until radio stations began playing the B-side […]
Amadeus Electric Quartet
The Amadeus Electric Quartet is a classical crossover quartet consisting of two violinists, a cellist and a pianist. The all female group is an internationally successful project especially among the fans of new classical music. Their constant and ingenious combining of classical and modern elements has certified this group as one of the most popular […]
Black and White Rag
The “Black and White Rag” is a 1908 ragtime composition by George Botsford. The song was recorded widely for both the phonograph and player piano, and was the third ragtime composition to sell over one million copies of sheet music. The song was first recorded in 1909, as performed by the Victor orchestra for a […]
Yoyomi
Park Yun-a better known as Yoyomi is a South Korean trot singer-songwriter and actress. Park was born in October 1994, in Cheongju, South Korea. She is a graduate of Cheongju Girls’ High School. As a child, she became interested in trot music (a genre of Korean popular music known for its use of repetitive rhythm […]
They Can’t Take That Away from Me
“They Can’t Take That Away from Me” is a 1937 popular song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film Shall We Dance and gained huge success. The song is performed by Astaire on the lonely foggy deck of a ferry from New […]
The Galop
The word Galop has the usual significance in the most rapid pace of a horse and the word Gallopade referring to a similar movement in dancing, Gallopade is really the correct term. The term Galop came from the Waltz-like turning of the dance, which also has a version called a “Galop-waltz” in 3/4 time. The […]
I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan
I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan” is a popular song published in 1929, with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz. It originally was a summer camp song titled “I Love to Lie Awake in Bed,” with Schwartz’s music set to lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Both young men worked at Brant […]
Sh-Boom
“Sh-Boom” (“Life Could Be a Dream“) is an early doo-wop song by the R&B vocal group The Chords. It was written by James Keyes, Claude Feaster, Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae, and William Edwards, members of The Chords, and published in 1954. It is sometimes considered the first doo-wop or rock ‘n’ roll record to […]
Willie King
Willie King was an American blues guitarist and singer, known for shunning fame and playing at a local bar in Mississippi. King was born in Prairie Point, a community in Noxubee County, Mississippi near the Alabama border. Prior to recording, he worked as a sharecropper, moonshine maker and travelling salesman; just a few of his […]