Performing Artist
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Performing artists, classic American songbook era
Galleries:
- galleries: performing artist and songwriter (primarily)
Band Leaders
Cab Calloway: selected early originals and covers, 1930 to 1939- Cab Calloway, part 2: selected additional recordings 1934-1940
- Duke Ellington
- Benny Goodman: selected standards index and gallery
- Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra (1942)
- Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1938)
- Louis Jordan: selected sides, Soundies, and short and feature film songs, 1941-1950
- Artie Shaw’s Class in Swing (1939)
- Red Nichols & his Five Pennies: early short films
- Clarence Williams: selected recordings, 1923-1929
African-American Musical Theater
Vocalists and vocal groups
- Andrews Sisters
- Fred Astaire
- Fred Astaire pages
- Fred and Adele Astaire
- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- Fred and Ginger photo gallery
- Cheek to Cheek – Top Hat (1935)
- Let’s Face the Music and Dance — Follow the Fleet (1936)
- The Way You Look Tonight – Swing Time (1936)
- A Fine Romance – Swing Time (1936)
- They Can’t Take That Away from Me — Shall We Dance (1937)
- Change Partners – Carefree (1938)
- Swing Time — 6th Astaire and Rogers RKO film: songs include Pick Yourself Up, The Way You Look Tonight, Waltz in Swing Time, A Fine Romance, Bojangles of Harlem, and Never Gonna Dance
- Irving Berlin: Some songs about dancing
- Selected film songs of George and Ira Gerswhin: six standards, composed 1936-37
- Boswell Sisters: profile + recordings 1925 & 1930
- Bing Crosby
- Greta Keller: selected recordings 1930-1938
- Mills Brothers selected recordings 1929-1939
- Frank Sinatra
- Mamie Smith, early recordings 1920-29
- Bessie Smith
- Ethel Waters
Instrumentalist:
Dancers:
- Aida Overton Walker slide show and gallery
- Fred and Adele Astaire
- Albertina Rasch Dancers
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: Cheek to Cheek – from Top Hat (1935), Swing Time – 6th Astaire and Rogers RKO film (1936), Fred and Ginger photo gallery
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Performing artists, 1955-1977
Elvis Presley
- Elvis Presley: early hit recordings 1954-1956 / selected live performances 1956-1957 (closed for repair)
- Elvis Presley sings classic American pop standards
See also:
1970s selected performers
Diana Ross
Cissy Houston
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Performer official and broad information sites (external links):
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- Andrews Sisters (vocalgroup.org/inductees)
- BettyCarter.org
- Billie Holiday Discography (billieholiday.be)
- Billie Holiday songs (discography and session data)
- Billy Murray (link fixed, 18 March 2021)
- Bing Crosby discography
- Bing Crosby Internet Museum
- Bix Beiderbecke: bixography.com
- Doris Day
- Ella Fitzgerald (redsugar.com)
- Florence Mills
- Florence Mills: music and shows
- Frank Sinatra (menziera.com)
- Frank Sinatra: Songs by Sinatra
- Ginger Rogers (gingerrogers.com)
- Jeri Southern
- Judy Garland links
- Lee Morse
- Louis Armstrong
- Marlene Dietrich
- Michael Feinstein
- Michael Feinstein: purefeinstein.com
- Modernaires, The
- Nora Bayes
- Ray Charles Video Museum
- Reri Grist
- Ricordando il Trio Lescano
- Rosemary Clooney
- Ruby Keeler fanzine (shadowwaltz.com)
- Ruth Etting
- Sophie Tucker
- Ted Lewis “The Jazz King”
- Trio Sorelle Lescano (ildiscobolo.net)
- Whispering Jack Smith
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