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| | Manhattan School of Music: Faculty Bio |
 | | A consummate accompanist, Wilkins has played and recorded with renowned singers Mel Tormé, Ray Charles, Morgana King, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Manhattan Transfer, Nancy Marano, and Jay Clayton. | | | In recent years, Wilkins has played at many international festivals and with many jazz greats including Stanley Turrentine, Jimmy Heath, the Mingus Epitaph, 5 Guitars Play Mingus (primary arranger), and bassist Eddie Gomez. |
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http://www.msmnyc.edu/catalog/facbio.asp?fid=1008173228
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| | PeggyLee.com - Penguin Biography - Encyclopedia of Popular Music |
| | When she wanted to record "Lover" (1952) in Gordon Jenkins’s swirling impressionistic arrangement Capitol didn’t go for it, so she switched to Decca and the record remains a pop landmark. | | | Top ten hits: "Waitin’ for the Train to Come In" (1945), "I Don’t Know Enough About You" (1946), "Golden Earrings" (1947), "The Old Master Painter" (1950, duet with Mel Tormé). |
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| | The group were themselves influenced by such artists as The Four Freshmen, The Modernaires, and Mel Tormé's Mel-Tones. | | | Reportedly named because of their extreme vocal and physical ranges (Strasen and Morse were tall, Gene and Clark were short), the Hi-Lo's practiced at Clark and Gene's Los Angeles apartment, refining their revolutionary voicings. | | | With Clark on lead, Bob and Bob on tenors, and Gene on bass, the Hi-Lo's fractured the traditional definition of vocal group structure with a tonal blend rarely equaled by any quartet. |
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http://www.thehi-los.com
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| | Coltautos.com Online Bookstore - Books and Publications |
| | Narrated by gun collector and entertainer Mel Tormé, script by R.L.Wilson, VHS Tape / Published 1993 | | | This affordable, updated version, complete with details of Colt's triumphant escape from bankruptcy, deserves a cherished place in the library of every arms collector and historian. |
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http://www.coltautos.com/caolbooks.htm
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