Musicians and Composers
- Ken Colyer, British jazz trumpeter
- Suezenne Fordham, American Jazz pianist
- Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist in the original lineup of The Quarry Men
- Woody Guthrie, musician and songwriter, wrote This Land Is Your Land
- Chick Henderson (singer), English singer in the 1930s and 1940s, Begin the Beguine
- Cisco Houston, American folk singer
- Ferlin Husky, American country-pop singer, hit number one with Wings of a Dove
- Nelson Riddle, American bandleader, arranger and orchestrator, C'mon...Get Happy
- Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street."
- Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican composer of children's songs, 'Cri-Cri, El Grillito Cantor'
- Ted Weems, American bandleader and musician, directed the Merchant Marine Band
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“How are we to know that a Dracula is a key-pounding pianist who lifts his hands up to his face, or that a bass fiddle is the doghouse, or that shmaltz musicians are four-button suit guys and long underwear boys?”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.”
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