Former BMI ­president/CEO Frances Williams Preston, often referred to as “the best friend a songwriter ever had,” died of congestive heart failure on June 13 at her home in Nashville. The tireless ...
Before DeFord Bailey stepped into the recording studio on October 2, 1928, Nashville, Tennessee, was an up-and-coming metropolis with a reputation for hosting live musicians and performers. By the ...
CINCINNATI — Reports of ghosts at Music Hall are as old as the hall itself. And along with ghosts, there have been many discoveries of bones during renovations over the years. So it’s no surprise to ...
Known as a comedian with a jazz problem, a man with swing and sting, it would be easy, friends said, to judge Red Kelly's last few years as a novelty act and laugh right along with him -- but that ...
Opening a seventh season of Broadway by the Year, producer-host Scott Siegel noted that the stock market exploded and crashed in 1928. Peter Pan peanut butter arrived on grocery shelves, and Kraft ...
FINE music in one form or another plays an increasing part in home life and public entertainment with the approach of the Christmas season. Throughout the coming months it promises to gladden and ...
For a young black singer and guitarist from Chicago with only a minor hit, getting booked on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1955 was a career-making opportunity. Sullivan asked him to sing Tennessee Ernie ...
CINCINNATI — Reports of ghosts at Music Hall are as old as the hall itself. And along with ghosts, there have been many discoveries of bones during renovations over the years. So it’s no surprise to ...