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Well known for his monologues before and during the 39-45 war, and on the Moss Empire circuit in variety for many years, he came to world wide attention as Julie Andrews father, the dustman in My Fair Lady on Broadway and Drury Lane, London, and reprised the part in the subsequent film. .

Loleatta Holloway (November 5, 1946 – March 21, 2011) was an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation", both of which have been sampled extensively. She began gospel singing with her mother in the Holloway Community Singers and she has also recorded with Albertina Walker in The Caravans gospel group. Holloway was also a cast member of the Chicago troupe of Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope. Holloway found moderate disco success when she placed eighteen songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, including four Number ones, and was featured on...

James Wesley Holloway, a,k,a. Red Holloway (Born in Helena, Arkansas on May 31, 1927; Died in Morro Bay, California on February 25, 2012) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Holloway started playing banjo and harmonica, switching to tenor sax when he was twelve years old. He graduated from DuSable High School, where he had played in the school big band with Johnny Griffin and Eugene Wright, and attended the Conservatory of Music, Chicago. He joined the Army when he was nineteen and became bandmaster for the U.S. Fifth Army Band, and after completing his military service, returned to Chicago and...

Nancy Holloway, whose real name is Nancy Brown, is an American singer of jazz and rock, born December 11, 1932 in Cleveland (Ohio), the United States, which has been popular in France in the 1960s. Having started as a dancer, Nancy Holloway enjoys a tour of Europe to get noticed as a singer in Paris. She continued her tour, but returned to France, where she is engaged featured in a jazz club, the Club in March. She decided to settle permanently in Paris in 1960. There she met and became friends with Elvis Presley during frequent permissions American rocker who...

James Wesley "Red" Holloway (May 31, 1927 – February 25, 2012) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Holloway started playing banjo and harmonica, switching to tenor sax when he was twelve years old. He graduated from DuSable High School, where he had played in the school big band with Johnny Griffin and Eugene Wright, and attended the Conservatory of Music, Chicago. He joined the Army when he was nineteen and became bandmaster for the U.S. Fifth Army Band, and after completing his military service, returned to Chicago and played with Yusef Lateef and Dexter Gordon, among others. In 1948 he...