Dando Shaft is the name of a short-lived psychedelic/progressive folk and folk jazz band that was primarily active in the early 1970s. The band has attracted a measure of attention from recent compilation releases and Dando Shaft is today known primarily as one of the major influences on the progressive stream of the 1960s folk […]
Eartha Kitt
Eartha Mae Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith) was an American singer and actress known for her highly distinctive singing style. Her mother, Annie Mae Keith (later Annie Mae Riley), was of Cherokee and African descent. Though she had little knowledge of her father, it was reported that he was the son of the owner of […]
Stanley Unwin
Stanley Unwin was a British comedian who invented his own comic language, “Unwinese”, referred to in the film Carry On Regardless (1961) as “gobbledygook”. Unwinese was a corrupted form of English in which many of the words were altered in playful and humorous ways, as in its description of Elvis Presley and his contemporaries as […]