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Skyliner Ballroom, the Glossary

The Skyliner Ballroom was a nightclub located on Jacksboro Highway in Fort Worth, Texas.^[1]

22 relations: Big band, Blues, Bruce Channel, Burlesque, Charlie Applewhite, Dallas, Delbert McClinton, Fort Worth, Texas, Howlin' Wolf, Ike & Tina Turner, Jazz, Jimmy Reed, Live! The Ike & Tina Turner Show, Louis Armstrong, Mitchell Torok, Moon Mullican, Nick Lucas, Nightclub, Ray Sharpe, Rock and roll, Rudy Vallée, Sally Rand.
Defunct nightclubs in Texas
Music venues in Texas

Big band

A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Bruce Channel

Bruce Channel (born November 28, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter best known for his 1962 number-one hit record "Hey! Baby".

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Burlesque

A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.

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Charlie Applewhite

Charlie Applewhite (November 25, 1932 – April 27, 2001) was an American singer and radio host.

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Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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Delbert McClinton

Delbert McClinton (born November 4, 1940) is an American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist.

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Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise counties.

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Howlin' Wolf

Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910January 10, 1976), better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Ike & Tina Turner

Ike & Tina Turner were an American musical duo consisting of husband and wife Ike Turner and Tina Turner.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jimmy Reed

Mathis James Reed (September 6, 1925 – August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter.

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Live! The Ike & Tina Turner Show

Live! The Ike & Tina Turner Show is a live album by Ike & Tina Turner released on Warner Bros. Records in 1965.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.

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Mitchell Torok

Mitchell Joseph Torok (October 28, 1929 – November 16, 2017) was an American country music singer-songwriter, guitarist, artist and author, best known for his 1953 hit record "Caribbean".

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Moon Mullican

Aubrey Wilson Mullican (March 29, 1909 – January 1, 1967), known professionally as Moon Mullican and nicknamed "King of the Hillbilly Piano Players", was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist.

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Nick Lucas

Dominic Antonio Nicholas Lucanese (August 22, 1897 – July 28, 1982), better known by his stage name Nick Lucas, was an American jazz singer and guitarist.

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Nightclub

A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment.

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Ray Sharpe

Edward Ray Sharpe (born February 8, 1938) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Rudy Vallée

Hubert Prior Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986), known professionally as Rudy Vallée, was an American singer, saxophonist, bandleader, actor, and entertainer.

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Sally Rand

Sally Rand (born Helen Gould Beck; April 3, 1904 – August 31, 1979) was an American burlesque dancer, vedette, and actress, famous for her ostrich-feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance.

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References

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