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The Hutchinson Family Singers were an American family singing group who became the most popular American entertainers of the 1840s.
The group sang in four-part harmony a repertoire of political, social, comic, sentimental and dramatic works, and are considered by many to be the first uniquely American popular music performers.
John Hutchinson orchestrated the group's formation with his brothers Asa, Jesse, and Judson Hutchinson in 1840; the Hutchinsons gave their first performance on November 6 of that same year. Jesse Hutchinson quit the main group to write songs and manage their affairs; he was replaced by sister Abby Hutchinson.
The Hutchinsons were a hit with both audiences and critics, and they toured the United States. They popularized closed four-part harmony.
The group's material included controversial material promoting abolitionism, workers' rights, temperance, and women's rights. At the urging of Jesse Hutchinson, the group took up various causes. In December 1842, John Hutchinson signed a petition affiliated with an abolitionist rally in Milford. By the following year, the Hutchinsons had become vocal abolitionists. Asa Hutchinson wrote, "About this time [1843] an antislavery convention was held in Milford attended by Wm. Lloyd Garrison. . . . The custom at once enlisted the sympathies of the young men. Accustomed to roam at freedom among their own Hills, they abhorred slavery and pitied the slave. More than this they nobly resolved to exert their influence on behalf of the captives. To this end they prepared and sang antislavery songs."
They traveled with Frederick Douglass in England in 1845 and stayed for almost a year.
Original songs such as "Get Off the Track!", "Right over Wrong", and "The Slave's Appeal" addressed these issues. Abby Hutchinson wrote "Song of Our Mountain Home" in 1850. It includes the line, "Among our free hills are true hearts and brave, / The air of our mountains ne'er breathed on a slave."
The group, known colloquially as the 'Tribe of Jesse' was still quite popular at the onset of the Civil War, by which time they had split into two ensembles, the 'Tribe of John' and the 'Tribe of Asa' both ensembles continued to bill themselves as the Hutchinson Family.
The 'Tribe of Asa' relocated to the western part of the United States, performing in, among other places, Minnesota and Wisconsin; the "Tribe of John' stayed primarily in the eastern part of the country, and began to perform in and around the camps of the Union Army with the onset of the war.
Judson committed suicide by hanging himself in 1859, in the cellar of John's home known as the "Daisy Cottage".
Vintage Singer sewing machine made in Scotland 1936 that I have refurbished and it now works. I am in the process of hooking it up to a treadle.
German postcard. Photo: Peter J. Fellinge.
German singer, dancer and actress Evelyn Künneke (1921 - 2001) was the last survivor of the Lili Marleen generation. Although the Nazis did not like it, she brought tap dance and swing to Germany in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Thirty years later she made a come-back in the films of Rosa von Praunheim and Rainer-Werner Fassbinder.
Lead singer of the Kamikaze Queens, Trinity Sarratt, and upright bass player “Luscious Lloyd” Clark at the Backstage Bar & Grill in Tacoma, Washington
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Chad Adams once Defiant pose singer.
Lawrie, Fire Exit Drummer.
Andy Coats, Old friend and punk.
Jim Ramsey, Zips Drummer.
The Zips July 27th 2019 headline act at Callum's Cavern in Back Sneddon paisley.
A cracking night with highs and lows and great to see old friends and trade sad news.
A huge thanks to the Zips who gave a shout out to John Forest of Fallout & The Sectors, who only just passed away leaving behind sadness and happy thoughts.
Farewell Forry and may your journey be a joy as your life was for many.
Dutch postcard. Photo: Phonogram.
On 14 September 2018, Dutch singer Louise Johanna 'Anneke' Grönloh (1942 – 2018) died at the age of 76. She had a successful career starting in 1959 that lasted throughout the 1960s, and scored a hit with Brandend Zand (Burning Sand), one of the best-selling Dutch songs of all time.
Anneke Grönloh was born in 1942 in Tondano, North Celebes, Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia), and spent her early years in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies in a Japanese concentration camp. Her father, an officer in the KNIL, had been interned before her birth. After the war the family moved to the Netherlands, and Grönloh grew up in Eindhoven. At the Gemeentelijk Lyceum (Municipal College) she met and played with Peter Koelewijn and his band Peter en zijn Rockets at parties. In 1959 her career took off after she won the talent show Cabaret der onbekenden, with the song Ma, he's making eyes at me. She won and was offered a contract with Phonogram. Her biggest hit Brandend Zand (1961) was a translated cover of Mina's hit song Heisses sand. Throughout the first half of the 1960s Grönloh scored hits, including Paradiso (1962),
Soerabaja (1963) and Cimeroni (1963). On 31 August 1964 she married Wim-Jaap van der Laan, a DJ for Dutch radio station Radio Veronica, and in 1965, she began singing in the Sleeswijk Revue. At the height of her fame, in 1964, Grönloh took part in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Jij bent mijn leven (You are my life), which ended with a joint tenth place with the Belgian entry.
In 1965, Anneke Grönloh's teenybob successes were over when the Merseybeat of the Beatles conquered the international music charts and by the end of the 1960s she had begun an international singing career. Besides popular music, Anneke Grönloh also performed the kroncong genre, singing songs such as Bengawan Solo, Boeroeng Kakatua, and Nina bobo, and sang jazz, which was her favourite genre. In 2000, Grönloh was named 'Singer of the Century' because of the record-breaking sales of Brandend Zand. In the same year she was also a participant on the television program Big Brother VIPS. In 2006 she released Anneke and Friends, a DVD of her theatre tours. Later that year she was part of the theater tour Purple 100, replacing Corry Brokken who could not perform due to illness. Anneke Grönloh had retired due to health-problems; she played her last show on 26 August 2017.
Sources: Europopmusic and Wikipedia.
Oradour sur Glane a été détruit pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, le 10 juin 1944. Ce village du Limousin a été le théâtre d'une exécution systématique de la part des Waffen S.S., faisant officiellement 642 victimes. Oradour-sur-Glane a été rayé de la carte, un après-midi de juin, quatre jours après le débarquement en Normandie. Conservé en état de ruine, ce village fantôme reste le témoin d'un crime odieux...
Singer, songwriter, musician and entertainer. Performing last night at Rydges Hotel - Infusion Restaurant in Campbelltown
A couple of "oily rags" where originality triumphs over condition. Seen at the North Norfolk Car Club's Show & Shine Evening.
A group of young women were walking along singing carols. My friend and I joined in for a bit as they lacked a bass line :)