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3.1 1920 (Season 2) 3.2 1921 ... ^75a This was the only time in its history the Muny presented a ... during her lifetime, featuring longtime St. Louis jazz singer ...
Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8, 1911, [4] to Julia Major Dodds (born October 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker, with whom she had ten children.
Its history of launching renowned acts such as Prince solidifies its importance in the current local scene and in Minnesota music history. [33] [34] The owners of First Avenue also operate the Palace Theatre in St. Paul. Mid-sized clubs also comprise a large part of the Twin Cities music scene.
An outsider artist before the term was in common use, Waits has been enamored, at various points in his career, with the cool of 1940s and 1950s jazz; the 1950s and 1960s word-jazz and poetry of such Beat and Beat-influenced writers as Jack Kerouac, Lord Buckley, and Charles Bukowski; the primal rock & roll crunch of the Rolling Stones; the ...
The latter included "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)", a non-single at just over ten minutes, that became the longest song in history to chart at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. [205] Her third re-recording, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) was released in 2023 to instant critical and commercial acclaim, becoming the most streamed country ...
Righteous Discontent: The Woman's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 (1993), highly influential study; Jackson, Joseph H. A Story of Christian Activism: The History of the National Baptist Convention, USA. Inc (Nashville: Townsend Press, 1980); official history; Johnson, Paul E., ed. African-American Christianity: Essays in ...
The 1920s saw gangsters, including Al Capone, Dion O'Banion, Bugs Moran and Tony Accardo battle law enforcement and each other on the streets of Chicago during the Prohibition era. [71] Chicago was the location of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929, when Al Capone sent men to gun down members of a rival gang, North Side, led by ...