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Dick Gilroy has been a long-time well known musician, playing piano throughout Western New York State and Northern Pennsylvania. Dick Gilroy has a passion for the Standard Ballad Love Song. This is immediately evident to the listener of his playing. He has a passion for the American jazz standard ballad - love songs played with a feeling and intensity.

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24 JULY 1917 Birth of Canadian-English composer Robert FARNON in Toronto, Ontario. d-Guernsey, 23 APR 2005.
Farnon was commissioned as a captain in the Canadian Army and became the conductor/arranger of the Canadian Band of the Allied Expeditionary Force sent overseas during World War II, which was the Canadian equivalent of the American Band of the AEF led by Major Glenn Miller. At the end of the war, Farnon decided to make England his home, and he later moved to Guernsey in the Channel Islands with his wife and children. He was considered by his peers the finest arranger in the world, and his talents influenced many composer-arrangers including Quincy Jones, all of whom acknowledge his contributions to their work. Conductor Andre Previn called him "the greatest writer for strings in the world." Robert Farnon died at the age of eighty-seven at a hospice near his home of forty years in Guernsey. He was survived by five children.
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JAZZ singer Dame Cleo Laine and her husband Sir Johnny Dankworth have the delightful insouciance that comes with having lived a full and happy 80 years on this planet.

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Ed Ames (born Edmund Dantes Urick on July 9, 1927) is an American popular singer and actor.
He is best known for his Pop and Adult Contemporary hits of the 1960s like "When the Snow is on the Roses" and the perennial "My Cup Runneth Over." He also was originally part of a popular singing group of 1950s called The Ames Brothers.

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Ed Ames (born Edmund Dantes Urick on July 9, 1927) is an American popular singer and actor.
He is best known for his Pop and Adult Contemporary hits of the 1960s like "When the Snow is on the Roses" and the perennial "My Cup Runneth Over." He also was originally part of a popular singing group of 1950s called The Ames Brothers.

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Jo STAFFORD ...R.I.P. .....Nov. 12th 1917/July 16th 2008
Jo Stafford (born Jo Elizabeth Stafford born November 12, 1917, in Coalinga, California was an American pop singer whose career spanned the late 1930s through the early 1960s. Stafford is greatly admired for the purity of her voice and is considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era. She is also viewed as a pioneer of modern musical parody, having won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 1961 (with husband Paul Weston) for their album Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris.
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DIAHANN CARROLL born on 17 July 1935, Nee Carol Diahann Johnson. The singer/actress of stage (“No Strings”) and screen (“Carmen Jones”) has Recordings on RCA, United Artists, and Columbia. She is an American Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe and Tony Award-winning actress and singer.
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10 JULY 1894 Birthday of JIMMY McHUGH American pop standards composer - song credits incl. "Don't Blame Me", "I'm In The Mood For Love", "Where Are You", "On The Sunny Side Of The Street", "Let's Get Lost" – wrote music for Broadway shows “Blackbirds of 1928” and “Streets Of Paris”. He died 1969.
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Legendary singer Charles Aznavour, who has been described as the Frank Sinatra of France, is being named an honorary officer of the Order of Canada, a special designation reserved for non-Canadians. Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean will make the presentation at her official residence in Quebec City on Saturday, the day before Aznavour is to perform in the Quebec capital to mark its 400th birthday. MORE
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Mitchell William Miller (born July 4, 1911) is an American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, A&R man and record company executive. He was one of the most influential figures in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of Artists & Repertoire at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist. In the 1960s Miller became a household name with his television show Sing Along with Mitch, a community-sing program featuring him and a male chorale. Miller currently resides in New York City and continues to be a guest-conductor for many renowned orchestras. ON THE WEB | IMAGES | SHOP: MITCH MILLER