Chicago – Music AmneZia https://www.musicamnezia.com Remembering Forgotten and not so Forgotten Music Mon, 19 May 2014 21:43:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.musicamnezia.com/?v=5.4.16 1923: Lucille Bogan https://www.musicamnezia.com/1930-lucille-bogan/ https://www.musicamnezia.com/1930-lucille-bogan/#respond Sat, 25 Jan 2014 21:27:46 +0000 http://www.musicamnezia.com/1930s-music/1930-lucille-bogan Biography Lucille Bogan (April 1, 1897 – August 10, 1948) was an American blues singer, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson. The music critic and sexologist Ernest Borneman stated that Bogan, along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, was in “the big three of the blues” She […]

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]]> https://www.musicamnezia.com/1930-lucille-bogan/feed/ 0 1954: The El Dorados https://www.musicamnezia.com/1950-el-dorados/ https://www.musicamnezia.com/1950-el-dorados/#respond Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:25:37 +0000 http://www.musicamnezia.com/?p=143 Biography The El Dorados were an American doo-wop group, who achieved their greatest success with the song “At My Front Door”, a no. 1 hit on the R&B chart in 1955. The group formed in Chicago in 1952, originally as “Pirkle Lee and the Five Stars”. It comprised Pirkle Lee Moses Jr. (lead vocals), Louis Bradley and Arthur Basset (tenors), […]

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