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Top: Arts: Music: Styles: V: Vocal: Traditional_Pop: Bands_and_Artists
Performers of Traditional Pop music, including solo vocalists, vocal groups, instrumentalists, and band leaders. Many of these artists also appeared in film and on stage due to the popularity of musicals during the golden age of Traditional Pop, and that some are thought of more as actors than singers today.
Vocal quartet of Joe, Gene, Vic, and Eddie (nee Urick). Ed Ames left the group in 1961 and became popular as an actor and solo performer.
Formed in the early 1950s in Toronto, Canada, the original group was comprised of Bernie Toorish, James Arnold, Connie Codarini, and Frank Busseri. The close harmony group received their first Gold Record in 1953 and sold millions of albums and singles. The Four Lads continues today with new members lead by Busseri.
John Alvin Ray (1927-1990) was a pop singer from Oregon. Ray was deaf in one ear and wore a hearing aid. One of the transitional figures between the crooners and rock-and-roll, he performed in a highly emotional style to orchestral arrangements. He was given the nicknames "Prince of Wails" and "Nabob of Sob" because of his ability to cry at will during songs on stage. His first hit was the two sided single "Cry"/"Little White Cloud That Cried" from 1951. Ray appeared in one film, the musical "There's No Business Like Show Business" with Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, and Marylin Monroe.
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