Articles about swing singers & music

The Rat Pack story

The Rat Pack is the nickname given to a group of popular entertainers most active between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s. Its most famous line-up featured Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin...

Big Band - origins & history

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the Swing Era from the early 1930s until the late 1940s. A big band typically...

Swing Music - origins & history

Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that developed during the 1920s when people got together and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967), is an American singer, pianist, and actor. Connick’s music encompasses jazz, some of it very much in the style of...

Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert "Bobby" Cassotto, May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols...

Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was a popular American jazz singer, songwriter, and pianist. He first came to...

Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 2, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American popular singer, crooner and Academy Award-winning actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977.

Andy Williams

Howard Andrew Williams (born December 3, 1927 in Wall Lake, Iowa), known as Andy Williams, is an American pop singer and crooner. Andy Williams has recorded 18 Gold and 3 Platinum certified albums.

Michael Steven Bublé is a critically acclaimed Grammy-nominated, multiple Juno Award-winning Canadian crooner, big band singer and also actor. While achieving modest chart success in the United States...

Engelbert Humperdinck

Engelbert Humperdinck (b. Arnold George Dorsey, May 2, 1936, Madras, India) is a well-known British-American Crooner & pop singer who rose to international fame during the 1960s.

Matt Munro

Matt Monro (1 December 1930, Shoreditch, London – 7 February 1985, Ealing) was an English ballad singer of the 1960s and one of the international post-World War II entertainers.

Sammy Davis, Jr

Samuel George Davis, Jr., better known as Sammy Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer. He was a dancer, singer, multi-instrumentalist...

Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, is best known as one of the great male jazz singers. He was also a jazz composer and arranger....

Dean Martin

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti, June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor, and comedian. He was one of the most famous music artists in the 1950s and 1960s.

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American jazz-oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era...

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto on August 3, 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards and jazz who is widely considered to be one of the best singers in any century.