Which performer's signature tune was 'Mary From The Dairy'?
"Hoots Mon! (1940 film) Hoots Mon! is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Max Miller, Florence Desmond and Hal Walters. It follows an English comedian who attempts his luck on the Scottish stage, and develops a rivalry with a local performer. Miller sings ""The Charabanc Song"" and his signature tune ""Mary from the Dairy"". The film was produced at Teddington Studios by Warner Brothers' British subsidiary. To comply with the 1927 Films Act the company was obliged to distribute a number of British-made films each year, and during the 1930s the company produced a"
"Ric Marlow Eric ""Ric"" Marlow (born Sanford Phillip Schafler; December 21, 1925 – February 28, 2017) was an American songwriter and actor, best known for co-writing with Bobby Scott the song ""A Taste of Honey"" which won a Grammy in 1962. The song has been recorded by approximately 200 artists internationally, including The Beatles, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, and Johnny Mathis. He also had several acting roles, most notably on the television programs, ""Bonanza"", ""Hawaii Five-O"" and ""Magnum, P.I."". Marlow was born to Bernice (née Berney) and Arthur Schafler in the Bronx, New York."
"Clarice Mayne Clarice Mayne (6 February 1886 – 16 January 1966) was a music hall and variety theatre singer and performer. Mayne was born in London in 1886. She is best known for the song ""A Broken Doll"" written by her husband, the composer James W. Tate, and lyricist Frank Clifford Harris. Early in her career, Mayne often played the ""principal girl"" in pantomimes for Francis Laidler, among others. She also became a noted music hall performer. Later, she played the ""principal boy"" roles. Mayne sang in the variety theatre act called ""Clarice Mayne and That"". Mayne was ""This"", and"
"Lord Melody Lord Melody (1926 – 26 September 1988) was a popular Trinidadian calypsonian, best known for singles such as ""Boo Boo Man"", ""Creature From The Black Lagoon"", ""Shame & Scandal"", ""Jonah and the Bake"", ""Juanita"", and ""Rastaman Be Careful"". Melody's career spanned forty years, from the beginnings of popular calypso music to his embrace of the more dance oriented Soca style by the late 1970s. Melody was born Fitzroy Alexander at San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, raised at an orphanage in Port of Spain, and met Alwyn Roberts (soon to become better known as Lord Kitchener) after moving to"
"Marion Marlowe Marion Marlowe (born Marion Townsend; March 7, 1929 – March 24, 2012) was an American singer and actress. She is best known for her recordings of ""The Man in the Raincoat"" and ""Heartbeat"". Marlowe worked with Frank Parker (""Moonlight and Roses"") and was married to the television producer Larry Puck. Marlowe was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and her father died several years later. At that point Marlowe and her mother (a ballerina who had danced with the Metropolitan Opera) moved in with her grandparents. Her initial public performance came at age 5 when she sang ""Ave Maria"""
"produced. Louie's song, ""Junky Rhapsody"" was featured on Grammy nominee Stanley C. Adkins' 2001 album ""The Undesirables"" which was produced by Alex Chilton in New Orleans, LA. Also in 2001, Louie played herself as the lead singer of a bar band in one scene of the TV-Movie, A Passion. Maggie Louie Maggie Louie (November 10, 1970) is an American songwriter, guitarist and singer, best known for the pop single ""Always Be Your Girl"" featured on her solo album, ""Maggie Louie"", released in 1999 and as the lead singer of the underground cult band Buttermilk which recorded four albums including ""Star"
"Maggie Louie Maggie Louie (November 10, 1970) is an American songwriter, guitarist and singer, best known for the pop single ""Always Be Your Girl"" featured on her solo album, ""Maggie Louie"", released in 1999 and as the lead singer of the underground cult band Buttermilk which recorded four albums including ""Star Spangled Bubblegum"" (1993) and ""On Tap"" (1995). Louie's vocal talents have been described as providing a ""fiery emotive delivery"" for Buttermilk's ""blues rock, jazz, funk, folk and H.O.R.D.E.-style groovy jams."" In 1998, Louie's life story was optioned as a feature film titled ""Sincerely Maggie"" but the movie was never"
"next few years, more Kristofferson originals hit the charts, performed by Roy Drusky (""Jody and the Kid""); Billy Walker & the Tennessee Walkers (""From the Bottle to the Bottom""); Ray Stevens (""Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down""); Jerry Lee Lewis (""Once More with Feeling""); Faron Young (""Your Time's Comin'""); and Roger Miller (""Me and Bobby McGee"", ""Best of all Possible Worlds"", and ""Darby's Castle""). He achieved some success as a performer himself, following Johnny Cash's introduction of him at the Newport Folk Festival. Kristofferson signed to Monument Records as a recording artist. In addition to running that label, Fred Foster also served"
"Anatole Friedland Anatole Friedland, also spelled as Anatol Friedland and Anato Friedland, (March 21, 1881 – July 24, 1938) was a composer, songwriter, vaudeville performer, and Broadway producer during the 1900s. He is most-known for composing songs with lyricist L. Wolfe Gilbert. Their most popular songs include, ""My Sweet Adair"" (1915), ""Are You From Heaven?"" (1917), and ""My Own Iona"" (1916). Friedland was born on March 21, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Some sources claim his year of birth is 1881, while others list it as 1888. He used March 21, 1884 on his June 21, 1922 passport application. Friedland's early"
"Barry Blue Barry Blue (born Barry Ian Green, 4 December 1950) is an English singer, producer, and songwriter. As an artist he is best known for his hit songs ""Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)"" and ""Do You Wanna Dance"" (both 1973). Blue has also been a prolific songwriter and producer for many artists and has had over forty worldwide hits including Andrea Bocelli, Diana Ross, Celine Dion, The Saturdays, The Wanted, and Pixie Lott. In film and television, Blue has provided scores and/or themes for productions including ""The Eyes of Laura Mars"", ""Long Good Friday"", and ""Escape to Athena"". At"
"Mariah Carey Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970) is an American singer and songwriter. Referred to as the ""Songbird Supreme"" by the ""Guinness World Records"", she is noted for her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style, and signature use of the whistle register. She rose to fame in 1990 after signing to Columbia Records and releasing her eponymous debut album, which topped the US ""Billboard"" 200 for 11 consecutive weeks. Carey became the first and only artist to have their first five singles reach number one on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, from ""Vision of Love"" to"
"Marie Currie Marie Michelle Currie (born November 30, 1959) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and artist. Currie is best known for playing in a band with her identical twin Cherie Currie called Cherie & Marie Currie. Their song ""Since You Been Gone"" charted at number 95 on the US charts. Marie played Singing Maid Marie in ""The Rosebud Beach Hotel"" and is now a popular multi-media sculptress and artist. Currie was born to Don Currie and actress Marie Harmon. She was raised in Encino with three siblings. Her brother is Don Currie Jr. She has an elder sister, actress"
"Melanie (singer) Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (born February 3, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as Melanie (and sometimes as Melanie Safka). She is best known for her hits ""Brand New Key"", ""Ruby Tuesday"", ""What Have They Done to My Song Ma"", and her song about performing at the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival, ""Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"". Melanie was born and raised in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Her father, Frederick M. Safka (1924-2009), was of a Ukrainian ethnic background and her jazz singer mother, Pauline ""Polly"" Altomare (1926-2003), was of Italian heritage. Melanie made"
"Mel McDaniel Melvin Huston McDaniel (September 6, 1942 – March 31, 2011) was an American country music artist. His chart-making years were mainly the 1980s with his hits from that era including ""Louisiana Saturday Night"", ""Big Ole Brew"", ""Stand Up"", the Number One ""Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On"", ""I Call It Love"", ""Stand on It"", and a remake of Chuck Berry's ""Let It Roll (Let It Rock)"". McDaniel's type of country music has been referred to as ""the quintessential happy song"" in comparison to other country artists who discuss broken hearts and lost loves. When asked why most of"
"Ron Dante Ron Dante (born Carmine John Granito on August 22, 1945, on Staten Island, New York) is an American singer, songwriter, session vocalist, and record producer. Dante is best known as the lead singer of the fictional cartoon band The Archies; he was also the voice of The Cuff Links and co-produced Barry Manilow’s first nine albums. The Archies single “Sugar, Sugar,” written and composed by producer Jeff Barry with Andy Kim, was the number-one selling record of 1969 in the United States. Four years earlier, Dante had been a member of the parody group The Detergents, who recorded"
"Shaun Ryder Shaun William George Ryder (born 23 August 1962) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and author who is the lead singer of the Happy Mondays and Black Grape. He was the runner-up of the tenth series of ""I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!"". Ryder is known for ""often witty lyrics"". Tony Wilson compared Ryder's lyrics to the work of W.B. Yeats. Ryder was born in Little Hulton, Salford, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), on 23 August 1962. He left school to work on a building site by the age of 13, later stating, ""It was a different world"
"Mark Lowry Mark Alan Lowry (born June 24, 1958) is an American Christian singer, comedian, and songwriter. He is known for co-writing the song ""Mary, Did You Know?"" and being a member of the Gaither Vocal Band from 1988 to 2001, and 2009 to 2013, along with Michael English, David Phelps and Bill Gaither. Lowry has recorded twelve albums, both music and comedy. Lowry was born in Houston, Texas, to Charles, an attorney, and Beverly Lowry. He often uses anecdotes of his young life in his comedy, as well as speaking of his experience with hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder"
"Ziggy Marley David Nesta ""Ziggy"" Marley (born 17 October 1968) is a Jamaican musician and leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, and the son of reggae icon Bob Marley and Rita Marley. He also performed the theme song for the children's cartoon series ""Arthur"". In the earliest known record of his musical career, David Marley performed as part of a singing group called The Seven Do Bees, made up of him and his classmates, and wherein he was given the stage name ""Freddie Dic"". The moniker never stuck, however, and instead, David went on to become"
"Van McCoy Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 – July 6, 1979) was an American musician, record producer, arranger, songwriter, singer and orchestra conductor. He is known best for his 1975 internationally successful song ""The Hustle"". He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit, and is also noted for producing songs for such recording artists as Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda & the Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches & Herb and Stacy Lattisaw. Van McCoy was born in Washington, D.C., the second child of Norman S. McCoy, Sr. and Lillian Ray. He learned to"
"it. Harmony Korine has stated that the characters Dot and Helen Darby (played by Chloë Sevigny and Carisa Glucksman) in his 1997 film ""Gummo"" ""were based off a combination of Cherie and Marie Currie, home schooling, and The Shaggs."" Marie Currie Marie Michelle Currie (born November 30, 1959) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and artist. Currie is best known for playing in a band with her identical twin Cherie Currie called Cherie & Marie Currie. Their song ""Since You Been Gone"" charted at number 95 on the US charts. Marie played Singing Maid Marie in ""The Rosebud Beach Hotel"""
"Gregg Diamond Gregory Oliver Diamond (May 4, 1949 – March 14, 1999) was an American pianist, drummer, songwriter, and producer who was active in the jazz and disco music scenes of the 1970s. Diamond was a member of the backing band for Jobriath, The Creatures. He played drums and percussion. Diamond wrote the song ""Hot Butterfly,"" which was released in 1978 under one of his group's names, Bionic Boogie, with Luther Vandross providing lead vocals. The song was later covered by David Lasley, The Sweet Inspirations, and Chaka Khan. His other popular songs included ""Risky Changes"" (released by Bionic Boogie"
"Roy Drusky Roy Frank Drusky, Jr. (June 22, 1930 – September 23, 2004) was an American country music singer, songwriter, producer, actor and disc jockey popular from the 1960s through the early 1970s. Known for his baritone voice, he was known for incorporating the Nashville sound and for being the first artist to record a song written by Kris Kristofferson (""Jody and the Kid""). His highest-charting single was the No. 1 ""Yes Mr. Peters"", a duet with Priscilla Mitchell. Drusky was born in 1930 in Atlanta, Georgia. His mother, a church organist, had tried for years to get her son"
"Dougherty) in the film ""Gummo"" released in 1997, Korine has mentioned that ""Dot and Helen were based off a combination of Cherie and Marie Currie, home schooling, and The Shaggs."" In 2006 the teen drama ""The O.C."", in the Season 3 episode ""The Man of the Year"", Marissa makes an entrance to ""Cherry Bomb"", while dressed in a provocative schoolgirl outfit, to Kaitlyn's boarding school. She pays tribute to Currie because when Currie sang ""Cherry Bomb"" live she wore a provocative outfit. Cherie Currie Cherie Ann Currie is an American musician (instrumentalist, singer, songwriter), actress and artist. Currie was the"
"Song. She co-wrote several jazz standards with Jimmy McHugh, such as ""Exactly Like You"". ""On the Sunny Side of the Street"" and ""I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby"". Lil Hardin Armstrong's most famous song, ""Struttin’ with Some Barbecue"" has been recorded 500 times. Her other notable songs are “Doin’ the Suzie Q"", ""Just for a Thrill"" and ""Bad Boy"". While Billie Holiday is best known as a singer, she co-wrote ""God Bless the Child"" and ""Don't Explain"" with Arthur Herzog, Jr. and she penned the blues song ""Fine and Mellow"". Historically, the majority of well-known women performers in"
"music in the Hallmark Channel movie titled ""My Christmas Love"". Barry and Greenwich were among the 2010 recipients of the Ahmet Ertegün Award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Unable to attend the ceremony, Steven Van Zandt accepted the award on Barry's behalf. Jeff Barry Jeff Barry (born Joel Adelberg; April 3, 1938) is an American pop music songwriter, singer, and record producer. Among the most successful songs that he has co-written in his career are ""Do Wah Diddy Diddy"", ""Da Doo Ron Ron"", ""Then He Kissed Me"", ""Be My Baby"", ""Chapel of Love"", and ""River Deep -"
"Ella Mae Morse Ella Mae Morse (September 12, 1924 – October 16, 1999) was an American popular singer. Morse was born in Mansfield, Texas. She was hired by Jimmy Dorsey when she was 14 years old. In 1942, at the age of 17, she joined Freddie Slack's band, with whom in the same year she recorded ""Cow Cow Boogie"", the first gold record by Capitol Records. ""Mr. Five by Five"" was also recorded by Morse with Slack, and they had a hit recording with the song in 1942 (Capitol 115). She also originated the wartime hit ""Milkman, Keep Those Bottles"
"Ella Mae Morse Ella Mae Morse (September 12, 1924 – October 16, 1999) was an American popular singer. Morse was born in Mansfield, Texas. She was hired by Jimmy Dorsey when she was 14 years old. In 1942, at the age of 17, she joined Freddie Slack's band, with whom in the same year she recorded ""Cow Cow Boogie"", the first gold record by Capitol Records. ""Mr. Five by Five"" was also recorded by Morse with Slack, and they had a hit recording with the song in 1942 (Capitol 115). She also originated the wartime hit ""Milkman, Keep Those Bottles"
"Judie Tzuke Judie Tzuke (born Judie Myers, 3 April 1956) is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known for her 1979 hit ""Stay with Me till Dawn"", which reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart. Tzuke's family relocated from Poland to England in the 1920s, and changed their surname from Tzuke to Myers. Her mother, Jean Silverside, was a television actress, and her father, Sefton Myers, was a successful property developer who also managed artists and singers—most notably Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice during the writing of ""Jesus Christ Superstar"". When Tzuke embarked on her singing career, she"
"Jeff Barry Jeff Barry (born Joel Adelberg; April 3, 1938) is an American pop music songwriter, singer, and record producer. Among the most successful songs that he has co-written in his career are ""Do Wah Diddy Diddy"", ""Da Doo Ron Ron"", ""Then He Kissed Me"", ""Be My Baby"", ""Chapel of Love"", and ""River Deep - Mountain High"" (all written with his then-wife Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector); ""Leader of the Pack"" (written with Greenwich and Shadow Morton); and ""Sugar, Sugar"" (written with Andy Kim). Barry was born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family. His parents divorced when he was seven,"
"Leroy Van Dyke Leroy Frank Van Dyke (born October 4, 1929) is an American country music singer and guitarist, best known for his hits ""The Auctioneer"" (1956) and ""Walk On By"" (1961). Van Dyke was born in Mora, Missouri. He lived in Spencer, Wisconsin, and graduated from the University of Missouri majoring in agricultural journalism. He was catapulted into country music fame in 1956 with his composition ""The Auctioneer"", co-written with Buddy Black, which sold over 2.5 million records. He wrote the song about the life of his cousin, National Auctioneers Association Hall of Famer Ray Sims, also a Missourian."
"Company"". Paul Ryan (singer) Paul Ryan (24 October 1948 – 29 November 1992) was an English singer, songwriter and record producer. Born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Paul and his twin brother Barry were the sons of singer Marion Ryan, and had some success as a singing duo during the 1960s, known simply as ""Paul & Barry Ryan"". However, the stress of public attention caused Paul to retreat into the background, while Barry went solo. Paul Ryan wrote Barry's 1968 hit, ""Eloise"", the 1971 hit ""Who Put the Lights Out?"" for Dana and another of his songs, ""I"
"also a Korean War veteran. In 1967 Leroy Van Dyke was awarded the ""Founding President's Award"" (formerly ""Connie B. Gay Award"") from the Country Music Association. Leroy Van Dyke Leroy Frank Van Dyke (born October 4, 1929) is an American country music singer and guitarist, best known for his hits ""The Auctioneer"" (1956) and ""Walk On By"" (1961). Van Dyke was born in Mora, Missouri. He lived in Spencer, Wisconsin, and graduated from the University of Missouri majoring in agricultural journalism. He was catapulted into country music fame in 1956 with his composition ""The Auctioneer"", co-written with Buddy Black, which"
"Andrew Mack (actor) Andrew Mack, born William Andrew McAloon, (July 25, 1863 – May 21, 1931) was an American vaudevillian, actor, singer and songwriter of Irish descent. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, he began his career at an early age in 1876 using the stage name Andrew Williams. He began in minstrel shows, and was especially associated with the song ""A Violet From Mother's Grave"". In 1892, he debuted in vaudeville. He composed songs for himself to sing. In 1899, he composed the popular song ""The Story of the Rose (Heart of My Heart)"" which became a standard of barbershop"