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Gene Vincent Tribute - Be-Bop-A-Lula It took until 1998 for Gene Vincent to gain induction to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. By then, Joni Mitchell, Pete Seeger, and a hundred or more others had been inducted. It took that long for the rock 'n' roll establishment to admit that Gene Vincent WAS rock 'n' roll. The sound; the fury; the screaming end. The basic bio goes like this. Vincent Eugene Craddock was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on February 11, 1935, and was wracked with pain for most of his life as a the result of a 1955 motorcycle accident. On stage, he looked both tragic and dangerous. He placed his damaged left leg behind him at an oddly skewed angle, and relied upon almost grotesquely exaggerated facial contortions to suggest emotion. The tone and mood of his music was darkly ominous, almost threatening. It was the beginning of rock 'n' roll as theater. The audio is from a live performance in 1958.

Gene Austin - Like A Melody Out Of The Sky Gene Austin (1900--1972) was an American singer and songwriter who is considered to have been one of the first crooners. Austin was born as Lemeul Eugene Lucas in Gainesville, Texas. He took the name "Gene Austin" from his stepfather, Jim Austin, a blacksmith. Austin grew up in Minden, Louisiana. There he learned to play piano and guitar. He ran away from home at fifteen and attended a vaudeville act in Houston, Texas, where the audience was allowed to come to the stage and sing. The audience response was overwhelming, and the vaudeville company immediately offered him a billed spot on their ticket. Austin joined the U.S. Army at the age of seventeen. As a cavalry member he was sent to Mexico and later served in France in the Great War. Back in the US in 1919, Austin settled in Baltimore, Maryland, where he intended to study dentistry. Soon, however, he was playing piano and singing in local taverns. He started writing songs and formed a vaudeville act with Roy Bergere, with whom he wrote "How Come You Do Me Like You Do." The act ended when Bergere married. Austin worked briefly in a club owned by Lou Clayton, who later was a part of the famous vaudeville team Clayton, Jackson and Durante. Victor bought his popular song "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street". In the next decade with RCA, Austin sold over 80 million records -- a total unmatched by a single artist for 40 years. Other best sellers included "The Lonesome Road," "Riding Around in the Rain," and "Ramona." His recording of "My Blue Heaven" even sold over twelve million records and until Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" replaced it, it was the largest selling record of all time. Arriving with the advent of electrical recording technologies, Austin soon gave birth to the crooner style of the 20's and 30's. Along with Art Gillham, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Cliff Edwards, Austin took over from the more sentimental style of tenor vocals popularized by such singers as Henry Burr and Billy Murray. Such later crooners as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Russ Columbo all credited Austin with creating the musical genre that began their careers. Offered to work in Hollywood at the height of his career as the "Voice of the Southland", Austin appeared in three films, Belle of the Nineties (1934), Klondike Annie (1936) and My Little Chickadee (1940), at the request of his personal friend, Mae West. In 1962, Austin campaigned unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for governor of Nevada. Austin had retired to Palm Springs, in the late 1950s and had been active in civic boards there until 1970. Income from his record sales allowed him to live comfortably the rest of his life. He died in Palm Springs of lung cancer. In 1978, Gene Austin was posthumously awarded a Grammy Hall of Fame Award for his 1928 recording of "Bye Bye Blackbird", which has long been considered recorded music's definitive rendition of that song. In 2005, Gene Austin was nominated and admitted to the Grammy Hall of Fame. As for this moving rendition, it was recorded for Victor on May 29th, 1928. Mr. Austin was accompanied by members of the Nat Shilkret Orchestra. Nathaniel (on popular/jazz records credited Nat) Shilkret (1895-1982) was an American composer and conductor. For many years he was "director of light music" for Victor. He conducted the orchestra for the very first recording of George Gershwin's symphonic poem An American in Paris, in 1928. His best-known popular composition was The Lonesome Road, sung by Jules Bledsoe (dubbing Stepin Fetchit) in the final scene of the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat and recorded by more than 100 artists, including Armstrong, Crosby, Sinatra and Robeson. Besides all this, he also was a classical composer. He moved to Los Angeles in 1935 and there contributed music scores to a string of Hollywood films for MGM and RKO, particularly Mary of Scotland (1936), Swing Time (1936), The Plough and the Stars, and Shall We Dance? (1937) and several films of Laurel and Hardy. Shilkret also received an Oscar nomination for his work scoring the film version of Maxwell Anderson's stage drama Winterset (1936). In 1939, he conducted a group of soloists (including tenor Jan Peerce) and the Victor Symphony Orchestra for RCA Victor's multi-disc tribute to Victor Herbert, which were recorded following a special NBC radio broadcast. He left the movie business after 1946 to join the CBS radio network as its music director.