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The Mills Brothers were the first African-American artists to have their own show on national network radio (on CBS in 1930); they made appearances in film; [ 2 ] and were the first to have a No. 1 hit on the Billboard singles chart, with " Paper Doll " in 1943. They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998.
Johnny S. Black. " Paper Doll " was a hit song for The Mills Brothers. In the United States it held the number-one position on the Billboard singles chart for twelve weeks, [ 3] from November 6, 1943, to January 22, 1944. The success of the song represented something of a revival for the group after a few years of declining sales.
The Flat Stanley Project is an educational project that was started in 1995 by Dale Hubert, a third grade schoolteacher in London, Ontario, Canada. [ 1][ 2] The project features paper cut-outs based on the title character of the 1964 children's book Flat Stanley. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The project was designed to facilitate the improvement of the reading ...
The Ink Spots were an American vocal pop group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s. Their unique musical style predated the rhythm and blues and rock and roll musical genres, and the subgenre doo-wop. The Ink Spots were widely accepted in both the white and black communities, largely due to the ballad style introduced to the ...
Paper dolls are figures cut out of paper or thin card, with separate clothes, also made of paper, that are usually held onto the dolls by paper folding tabs. [ 1] They may be a figure of a person, animal or inanimate object. [ 2] Paper dolls have been inexpensive children's toys for almost two hundred years.
The Paper Dolls were a late 1960s British female vocal trio from Northampton, comprising lead vocalist Susie 'Tiger' Mathis, Pauline 'Spyder' Bennett and Sue 'Copper' Marshall. They were one of the few British girl groups of the late sixties. Each member of the group had a nickname, similar to the Spice Girls three decades later.
The paper doll family was posed dancing barefoot, dressed in tattered clothing, and the box was labeled "Before the Receipt was sold". ( Receipt is an archaic rural form of recipe.) [ 39 ] Buying another box with elegant clothing cut-outs to fit over the dolls, the customer could transform them "After the Receipt was sold".
Chicago was formed under the name The Big Thing on February 15, 1967, with the original lineup comprising guitarist and vocalist Terry Kath, keyboardist and vocalist Robert Lamm, drummer Danny Seraphine, saxophonist Walter Parazaider, trumpeter Lee Loughnane and trombonist James Pankow. [ 1 ] In December, bassist Peter Cetera was added to the ...