40s, 50s, 60s: Unknown Maker

more...

Home
Art Glass
Art Pottery
China, Dinnerware
Glass Wholesale Lots
Glassware
40s, 50s, 60s
40s, 50s, 60s: Anchor...
40s, 50s, 60s: Federal
40s, 50s, 60s: Hazel-Atlas
40s, 50s, 60s: Indiana
40s, 50s, 60s: Jeannette
40s, 50s, 60s: L.E. Smith
40s, 50s, 60s: Libbey
40s, 50s, 60s: Other Makers
40s, 50s, 60s: U.S. Glass
40s, 50s, 60s: Unknown Maker
Amethyst
Carnival Glass
Childrens Glass
Cobalt
Contemporary Glass
Crackle Glass
Cut Glass
Depression
Early American Pattern Glass
Elegant
Kitchen Glassware
Opalescent
Opaque
Other Glassware
Pressed Glass
Pyrex
Ruby
Stretch Glass
Vaseline
Waterford
Other
Pottery Wholesale Lots

Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio (Chicago, March 30, 1913 – San Diego, February 6, 2007), was a successful American musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of \"That's My Desire in 2005. Often billed as America's Number One Song Stylist, his other nicknames include Mr. Rhythm, Old Leather Lungs, and Old Man Jazz. His hits included \"That's My Desire\", \"That Lucky Old Sun\", \"Mule Train\", \"Cry of the Wild Goose\", \"Jezebel\", \"High Noon\", \"I Believe\", \"Hey Joe!\", \"The Kid's Last Fight\", \"Cool Water\", \"Moonlight Gambler\", \"Love is a Golden Ring\", \"Rawhide\", and \"Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain\".

Style

A clarion-voiced singer with lots of style, able to fill halls without a microphone, and one of the biggest hit-makers of late 1940s/early 1950s, Laine had more than 70 charted records, 21 gold records, and worldwide sales of over 250 million disks. Originally a rhythm and blues influenced jazz singer, Laine excelled at virtually every music style, eventually expanding to such varied genres as popular standards, gospel, folk, country, western/Americana, rock 'n' roll, and the occasional novelty number. He was also known as Mr Rhythm for his driving jazzy style.

Laine was the first and biggest of a new breed of black-influenced singers who rose to prominence in the post-World War II era. This new, raw, emotionally charged style seemed at the time to signal the end of the previous era's singing styles; and was, indeed, a harbinger of the rock 'n' roll music that was to come. As music historian Jonny Whiteside wrote:

In the Hollywood clubs, a new breed of black-influenced white performers laid down a baffling hip array of new sounds ... Most important of all these, though, was Frankie Laine, a big white lad with 'steel tonsils' who belted out torch blues while stomping his size twelve foot in joints like Billy Berg's, Club Hangover and the Bandbox. ... Laine's intense vocal style owed nothing to Crosby, Sinatra or Dick Haymes. Instead he drew from Billy Eckstine, Joe Turner, Jimmy Rushing, and with it Laine had sown the seeds from which an entire new perception and audience would grow. ... Frank Sinatra represented perhaps the highest flowering of a quarter century tradition of crooning but suddenly found himself an anachronism. First Frankie Laine, then Tony Bennett, and now Johnnie (Ray), dubbed 'the Belters' and 'the Exciters,' came along with a brash vibrancy and vulgar beat that made the old bandstand routine which Frank meticulously perfected seem almost invalid.

Read more at Wikipedia.org