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Cecil Gant (April 4, 1913 - February 4, 1951) was an American Blues singer & pianist. ImageMetadata File history File links Cecil_Grant. ...
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April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ...
1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...
The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. ...
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Gant worked local clubs through the mid 1930's up until the Second World War, when he enlisted in the US Army. Though his piano was blues-based, vocally he was a crooner of considerable cross-over appeal. He sang at a War Bond rally in Los Angeles, signed with the Gilt Edge record label, and cut the ballad "I Wonder" late in 1944, billed as "Pvt. Cecil Grant." Nickname: Music City Official website: http://www. ...
Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II...
Crooner is an epithet given to a male singer of a certain style of popular songs, dubbed Pop standards. ...
"I Wonder" reached number one on the Harlem Hit Parade (as the "race" chart was called then) and sold impressively nationwide. Gant then went on tour billed as "The G.I. Sing-sation," dressed in Army khaki and breaking attendance records at major venues, attracting both black and white audiences. But he was unlucky, and perhaps too early: it was left to Nat Cole and Billy Eckstine to find the lucrative "sepia Sinatra" market. Grant had other releases on King (1947), Bullet (1948-49), Downbeat/Swingtime (1949), and Imperial (1950), but his moment of juke box glory was gone. Cecil is considered THE grand-father of rock n roll. He was ahead of his times. Both lyrics and music. Nat King Cole in The Blue Gardenia (1953) Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965) was a hugely popular American singer and jazz musician. ...
Billy Eckstine (8 July 1914 – 8 March 1993), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as William Clarence Eckstein. ...
Gant died of pneumonia in Nashville in 1951. Pneumonia is an illness of the lungs and respiratory system in which the microscopic, alveoli (air-filled sacs) responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere become inflamed and flooded with fluid. ...
Compilation Albums
- Best of 1944-1948 (allmusic)
- We're Gonna Rock (Amazon)
External links - Source: Music Web
- allmusic
- http://www.hoyhoy.com/cecil.htm
- http://www.geocities.com/shakin_stacks/cecilgant.txt
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