Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Hits Collection Vol. 1 1927-37Guy Lombardo was a hugely successful bandleader, violinist and conductor whose orchestra played the "sweet" style of dance band and easy listening music which appealed to the broad spectrum of middle America during the 1930s through the '40s and into the early '50s

The big chart winner of the year was Brook Benton

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where he blended jazz and vaudeville to establish a niche that stood him in good stead as an entertainer across seven decades

set out to lend a new and fresh perspective to Bach's timeless masterpiece of raging choirs

and The Turks

For most of their career

He had absorbed the essence of New Orleans

he formed a five-piece group called Bill Black's Combo and signed to the Memphis label Hi Records

Known as The Prince of The Blues during his career

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