Bert Kaempfert

Bert Kaempfert

male, deceased (1980)
lived in the USA, a walk in the black-forest, Red roses for a blue lady, A Man Could Get Killed, Wonderland by Night, Danke Schoen…WhenTheSaintsGoMarchingIn, The Beatles with Tony Sheridan, Strangers in the Night, The Beatles
Bert Kaempfert was a German orchestra leader and songwriter. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records, and wrote the music for a number of...
James Milton Black

James Milton Black

male, 153 years old
gospel singer, American, Christian, I Remember Calvary, The Day of All Days, Come, Oh, Come to Me…A Home in My Heart for Jesus, Songs of the Soul, Number Two, WhenTheSaintsGoMarchingIn, When the Saints are Marching In, We Shall Reign with Him in Glory
James Milton Black (1856 - 1938) was a composer of hymns, choir leader and Sunday school teacher. Black was born in South Hill, New York, but...
Papa John Joseph

Papa John Joseph

male, deceased (1965)
jazz, barber, Musician of New Orleans, preservation hall, Jazz double-bassist, string bass…WhenTheSaintsGoMarchingIn
Papa John Joseph (27 November, 1877 - 22 January, 1965) was an early New Orleans jazz string bass player. Joseph was born in St. James Parish,...

Katharine Purvis

female, deceased (1909)
Methodist, Lyricist, Methodism, American, Methodist Episcopal Church, from Williamsport, Pennsylvania…When the Saints are Marching In, WhenTheSaintsGoMarchingIn
Katharine E. Nash Purvis (died 1909) is best known as the lyricist for "When the Saints Are Marching In". Purvis was the daughter of a Methodist...

John Twomey

male
manualism, Stars and Stripes Forever, manualist, The Stars and Stripes Forever, Colonel Bogey March, The Bridge over the River Kwai…WhenTheSaintsGoMarchingIn, The Mike Douglas Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Merv Griffin Show
John Twomey was a manualist who most famously appeared on NBC's The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson in 1974. He is credited with bringing...