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Chris Karan, the Glossary

Chris Karan (born Chrisostomos Karanikis, 14 October 1939) is a Britain-based Australian jazz drummer and percussionist of Greek descent.^[1]

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Australian jazz drummers
Australian male jazz composers
Dudley Moore Trio members

Alla Rakha

Ustad Alla Rakha Qureshi (29 April 1919 – 3 February 2000), mononymously known as Alla Rakha, was an Indian tabla player who specialised in Hindustani classical music.

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Amazing Blondel

Amazing Blondel are an English acoustic progressive folk band, containing Eddie Baird, John Gladwin, and Terry Wincott.

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André Previn

André George Previn (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Barry Emmanuel Tuckwell, (5 March 1931 – 16 January 2020) was an Australian French horn player who spent most of his professional life in the UK and the United States. Chris Karan and Barry Tuckwell are musicians from Melbourne.

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Basil Kirchin

Basil Kirchin (8 August 1927 – 18 June 2005) was an English drummer and composer.

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Bedazzled (1967 film)

Bedazzled is a 1967 British comedy DeLuxe Color film directed and produced by Stanley Donen in Panavision format.

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Bee Gees

The Bee Gees --> were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb.

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Bernie Taupin

Bernard John Taupin (born 22 May 1950) is an English lyricist and visual artist.

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Carl Davis

Carl Davis (October 28, 1936 – August 3, 2023) was an American-born British conductor and composer.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Caterina Valente

Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931) is a retired Italian-French multilingual singer, guitarist and dancer.

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Catherine Howe

Catherine Howe (born 17 May 1950, Halifax, England) is an English singer-songwriter.

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Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour (born Charles Aznavourian, 22 May 1924 – 1 October 2018) was a French singer of Armenian ancestry, as well as a lyricist, actor and diplomat.

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Cheryl Lynn

Cheryl Lynn (born Lynda Cheryl Smith; March 11, 1957) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Chi Coltrane

Chi Coltrane (born November 6, 1948) is an American rock/gospel singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Chris Rainbow

Christopher James Harley, known by the stage name Chris Rainbow (18 November 1946 – 22 February 2015), was a Scottish pop rock singer and musician whose songs "Give Me What I Cry For" and "Solid State Brain" were often played by British radio DJs Kenny Everett and Tony Blackburn in the 1970s.

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Cleo Laine

Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth (born Clementine Dinah Hitching; 28 October 1927) is an English singer and actress known for her scat singing.

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Clifford T. Ward

Clifford Thomas Ward (10 February 1944 – 18 December 2001) was an English singer-songwriter, best known for his career as a solo artist.

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Dave Cartwright

Dave Cartwright (30 April 1943 – 8 August 2015) was a British singer, songwriter, guitarist and author.

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Davey Johnstone

David William Logan Johnstone (born 6 May 1951) is a Scottish rock guitarist and vocalist, best known for his long-time collaboration with Elton John as a member of the Elton John Band.

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David Fanshawe

David Arthur Fanshawe (19 April 1942 – 5 July 2010) was an English composer and self-styled explorer with a fervent interest in world music.

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Denny Wright

Denys Justin Wright (6 May 1924 – 8 February 1992), known professionally as Denny Wright, was a British jazz guitarist.

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Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore CBE (19 April 193527 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer. Chris Karan and Dudley Moore are Dudley Moore Trio members.

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Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was an English singer.

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Edmund Hockridge

Edmund James Arthur Hockridge (9 August 1919 – 15 March 2009) was a Canadian baritone and actor who had an active performance career in musicals, operas, concerts, plays and on radio.

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First Light (Richard and Linda Thompson album)

First Light is the fourth album by folk rock duo Richard and Linda Thompson.

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Freddy Logan

Frederick "Freddy" Logan (1930–2003) was a Jazz musician (Double bass).

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Gerard Kenny

Gerard W. Kenny (born July 8, 1947, New York City, United States) is an American singer-songwriter, based in London, England.

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Get Carter

Get Carter is a 1971 British gangster film, written and directed by Mike Hodges in his directorial debut and starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, Britt Ekland and Bryan Mosley.

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Harvey Andrews

Harvey John Andrews (born 7 May 1943 in Stechford, Birmingham) is an English singer-songwriter and poet.

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Heart 'n' Soul

Heart ‘n’ Soul is the fifth album by English singer Tina Charles, who achieved success as a disco artist in the mid to late 1970s.

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Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini (born Enrico Nicola Mancini; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer.

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Hobo with a Grin

Hobo with a Grin is the debut solo studio album by British singer-songwriter Steve Harley, which was released by EMI in 1978.

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I'm Alright (Loudon Wainwright III album)

I'm Alright is a 1985 album by Loudon Wainwright III.

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Ian Carr

Ian Carr (21 April 1933 – 25 February 2009) was a Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator.

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In Love (Cheryl Lynn album)

In Love is an album by the American musician Cheryl Lynn, released in 1979 on Columbia Records.

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Jack Parnell

John Russell Parnell (6 August 1923 – 8 August 2010) was an English musician and musical director.

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Jackie Trent

Yvonne Ann Gregory (born Yvonne Ann Burgess; 6 September 1940 – 21 March 2015), better known by her stage name Jackie Trent, was an English singer-songwriter and actress.

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Jerry Fielding

Jerry Fielding (born Joshua Itzhak Feldman; June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980)Redman, Nick.

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Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer, with a career in film and television scoring that spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003.

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John Dankworth

Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinettist and writer of film scores.

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John Schroeder (musician)

John Francis Schroeder (19 January 1935 – 31 January 2017) was a British pop and easy listening composer, arranger, songwriter and record producer.

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Katie Melua

Ketevan Katie Melua (ქეთევან "ქეთი" მელუა,; born 16 September 1984) is a British singer and songwriter.

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Kenny Baker (trumpeter)

Kenny Baker (1 March 1921 – 7 December 1999) was an English jazz trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn player, and a composer.

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Lalo Schifrin

Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor.

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Lee Vanderbilt

Lee Vanderbilt (9 August 1935 – 19 February 2015) was a Trinidadian soul and rock singer.

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Len Rawle

Len Rawle (4 January 1938 – 14 November 2023) was a Welsh organ builder and organist.

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Linda Lewis

Linda Ann Fredericks (27 September 1950 – 3 May 2023), better known as Linda Lewis, was an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Little Games

Little Games is the fourth American album by the English rock band the Yardbirds.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London.

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Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor.

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Lulu (singer)

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.

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Madeline Bell

Madeline Bell (born July 23, 1942) is an American soul singer, who became famous as a performer in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s with pop group Blue Mink, having arrived from the United States in the gospel show Black Nativity in 1962, with the vocal group Bradford Singers.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Michael Parkinson

Sir Michael Parkinson (28 March 1935 – 16 August 2023) was an English television presenter, broadcaster, journalist and author.

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Michel Legrand

Michel Jean Legrand (24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019) was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer.

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Mike Batt

Michael Philip Batt, LVO (born 6 February 1949) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, record producer, director, and conductor.

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Mike Nock

Michael Anthony Nock (born 27 September 1940) is a New Zealand jazz pianist, currently based in Australia.

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Mike Vickers

Michael Graham Vickers (born 18 April 1940) is an English musician who came to prominence as the guitarist, flautist, and saxophonist with the 1960s band Manfred Mann.

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Murray Head

Murray Seafield St George Head (born 5 March 1946) is an English actor and singer.

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Nazia Hassan

Nazia Hassan (3 April 1965 – 13 August 2000) was a Pakistani singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist.

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Neil Innes

Neil James Innes (9 December 1944 – 29 December 2019) was an English writer, comedian and musician.

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Nigel Lived

Nigel Lived is the first album by the British vocalist and actor Murray Head, released in 1973 on CBS Records.

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No Regrets (The Walker Brothers album)

No Regrets is the fourth album by the American pop group The Walker Brothers.

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Not Only... But Also

Not Only...

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Oliver Edward Nelson in London with Oily Rags

Oliver Edward Nelson in London with Oily Rags is an album by Oliver Nelson featuring performances recorded in London in 1974 for the Flying Dutchman label.

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Oliver Nelson

Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.

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Patrick Williams (composer)

Patrick Moody Williams (April 23, 1939 – July 25, 2018) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor who worked in many genres of music, and in film and television.

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Peter Bardens

Peter Bardens (19 June 1945 – 22 January 2002) was an English keyboardist and a founding member of the progressive rock group Camel.

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Peter Frampton

Peter Kenneth Frampton (born 22 April 1950) is an English-American guitarist, singer and songwriter who rose to prominence as a member of the rock bands the Herd and Humble Pie.

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Peter Skellern

Peter Skellern (14 March 1947 – 17 February 2017) was an English singer-songwriter and pianist who rose to fame in the 1970s.

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Piece by Piece (Katie Melua album)

Piece by Piece is the second studio album by British jazz and blues singer Katie Melua.

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Polly Brown

Polly Brown (Polly Browne; born 18 April 1947) is an English singer from Birmingham.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer.

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Randy Stonehill

Randall Evan Stonehill (born March 12, 1952) is an American singer and songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian music.

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Ray Ellington

Henry Pitts Brown (17 March 1916 – 27 February 1985), known professionally as Ray Ellington, was an English singer, drummer and bandleader.

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Richard Rodney Bennett

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist.

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Richard Thompson (musician)

Richard Thompson (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Roger Glover

Roger David Glover (born 30 November 1945) is a Welsh bassist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott OBE (born Ronald Schatt; 28 January 1927 – 23 December 1996) was a British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.

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Roy Budd

Roy Frederick Budd (14 March 1947 – 7 August 1993) was a British jazz pianist and composer known for his film scores, including Get Carter and The Wild Geese.

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Russ Ballard

Russell Glyn Ballard (born 31 October 1945) is an English musician.

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Russian Roulette (Hollies album)

Russian Roulette is a 1976 self-produced album by English rock/pop group, the Hollies, and their 17th UK studio album.

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Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director.

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Spike Milligan

Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor.

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Stanley Myers

Stanley Myers (6 October 19309 November 1993) was an English composer and conductor, who scored over sixty films and television series, working closely with filmmakers Nicolas Roeg, Jerzy Skolimowski and Volker Schlöndorff.

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Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli (26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist.

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Steve Ashley

Steve Frank Ashley (born 9 March 1946) is an English singer-songwriter, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, writer and graphic designer.

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Steve Harley

Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice (27 February 1951 – 17 March 2024), known by his stage name Steve Harley, was an English singer-songwriter and frontman of the rock group Cockney Rebel.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Tabla

A tabla is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent.

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Taupin

Taupin is the debut studio album by longtime Elton John lyricist Bernie Taupin.

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Teresa Brewer

Teresa Brewer (born Theresa Veronica Breuer; May 7, 1931 – October 17, 2007) was an American singer whose style incorporated pop, country, jazz, R&B, musicals, and novelty songs.

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Terry Smith (guitarist)

Terence Smith (born 20 May 1943) is a British jazz guitarist.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Hollies

The Hollies are an English rock and pop band formed in 1962.

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The King's Singers

The King's Singers are a British a cappella vocal ensemble founded in 1968.

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The Seekers

The Seekers were an Australian folk-influenced pop group originally formed in Melbourne in 1962.

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The Swingles

The Swingles are an a capella vocal group.

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The Three Out

The Three Out (sometimes written The 3-Out or The Three Out Trio) were an Australian jazz trio made up of Mike Nock, Chris Karan, and Freddy Logan.

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The Walker Brothers

The Walker Brothers were an American pop group formed in Los Angeles in 1964 by John Walker (real name John Maus) and Scott Walker (real name Noel Scott Engel), with Gary Walker (real name Gary Leeds) joining shortly after.

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The Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an English rock band, formed in London in 1963.

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Tina Charles (singer)

Tina Charles (born Tina Hoskins; 10 March 1954) is an English singer who achieved success as a disco artist in the mid to late 1970s.

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Tom Paxton

Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer-songwriter who has had a music career spanning more than sixty years.

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Tony Hatch

Anthony Peter Hatch (born 30 June 1939) is an English composer for musical theatre and television.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Wind of Change (album)

Wind of Change is the debut studio album by English guitarist and singer Peter Frampton, released in 1972 by A&M.

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Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 191612 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Karan

Also known as Karan, Chris.

, Little Games, London Symphony Orchestra, Loudon Wainwright III, Lulu (singer), Madeline Bell, Melbourne, Michael Parkinson, Michel Legrand, Mike Batt, Mike Nock, Mike Vickers, Murray Head, Nazia Hassan, Neil Innes, Nigel Lived, No Regrets (The Walker Brothers album), Not Only... But Also, Oliver Edward Nelson in London with Oily Rags, Oliver Nelson, Patrick Williams (composer), Peter Bardens, Peter Frampton, Peter Skellern, Piece by Piece (Katie Melua album), Polly Brown, Quincy Jones, Randy Stonehill, Ray Ellington, Richard Rodney Bennett, Richard Thompson (musician), Roger Glover, Ronnie Scott, Roy Budd, Russ Ballard, Russian Roulette (Hollies album), Serge Gainsbourg, Spike Milligan, Stanley Myers, Stéphane Grappelli, Steve Ashley, Steve Harley, Sydney, Tabla, Taupin, Teresa Brewer, Terry Smith (guitarist), The Beatles, The Hollies, The King's Singers, The Seekers, The Swingles, The Three Out, The Walker Brothers, The Yardbirds, Tina Charles (singer), Tom Paxton, Tony Hatch, Victoria (state), Wind of Change (album), Yehudi Menuhin.

Chris Karan, the Glossary

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See also

Australian jazz drummers

Australian male jazz composers

Dudley Moore Trio members

References