Its roots went earlier, and performers like Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Oscar Brand had enjoyed a limited general popularity in the 1930s and 1940s.

* 1920 – Oscar Brand, Canadian folk musicologist

These authors and activists included Oscar Wilde, Emile Armand, Han Ryner, Henri Zisly, Renzo Novatore, Miguel Gimenez Igualada, Adolf Brand and Lev Chernyi among others.

In recent years, however, the family of Canadian folk musician Oscar Brand has suggested he was the namesake.

Hosted by Oscar Brand, the series was produced by Jim Anderson, Robert Malesky, and Larry Snitzler.

During the Fifties and early Sixties the label concentrated on folk music recordings, releasing a number of best-selling albums by Theodore Bikel, Ed McCurdy, Oscar Brand, Judy Collins and protest singers such as Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton.

Hosted by Oscar Brand, who debuted the show on December 10, 1945, and who was blacklisted in the McCarthy era, the show was one of the first radio programs in the United States to focus on issues of homosexuality and continues to shake up audiences with anti-American Revolution programs, " bad daddy " shows for Father's Day, " Evil Mothers " for Mother's Day, and more.

** Brand new and exclusive interview by Thelma Schoonmaker, Powell's widow and Oscar winning film editor

* Oscar Brand ( 1976 )

The Newport Folk Festival was founded in 1959 by George Wein, founder of the already-well-established Newport Jazz Festival, backed by its original board: Theodore Bikel, Oscar Brand, Pete Seeger and Albert Grossman.

Artists she's been credited as performing and / or recording with include Leonard Cohen, Buster Poindexter, Oscar Brand, Neil Sedaka, Ben Vereen, Black 47, Deb Lyons, Laurie Beechman, Christine Lavin, Yuri Kasahara and Patti Austin.

The label also offered an extensive folk catalog, including traditional performers like Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Obray Ramsey, and George Pegram and Walter Parham ; and folk interpreters like Ewan MacColl, Jean Ritchie, Paul Clayton, Billy Faier, Oscar Brand, Cynthia Gooding and Bob Gibson.

During his Canadian radio period, he developed life-time friendships with the guests on his show, such as Pete Seeger, Lena Horne, Josh White, Oscar Peterson, and Oscar Brand.

* Oscar Brand, When I Came First to this Land.

During this time WCBS featured well-known personalities including Arthur Godfrey, future CBS News President Bill Leonard, author Emily Kimbrough and folk singer Oscar Brand.

There she met Oscar Brand, Leadbelly, and Pete Seeger and started singing her family songs again.

* Riddle Me This ( 1959 ) ( with Oscar Brand )

" A Guy Is a Guy " is a popular song written by Oscar Brand.

" Oscar Brand cleaned up the lyrics, and wrote this song based on it.

Category: Songs written by Oscar Brand

" Something to Sing About " is a patriotic song written by folk singer Oscar Brand that sings the praises of the many different regions of Canada.

Category: Songs written by Oscar Brand

* A Joyful Noise, a 1966 musical with a book by Edward Padula and music and lyrics by Oscar Brand and Paul Nassau

Oscar was the son of a noble family, born near Amiens.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl ( born December 30, 1948 ) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.

* Oscar Mariné ( born 1951 ), a Spanish illustrator, typographer, and artist

* Oscar ( footballer born 1991 ), Brazilian footballer

Hammerstein was born Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein in New York City, the son of Alice ( née Nimmo ) and William Hammerstein.

Theodor Ludwig Adorno-Wiesengrund was born in Frankfurt am Main on September 11, 1903, the only child of Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund ( 1870 – 1946 ) and Maria Calvelli-Adorno della Piana ( 1865 – 1952 ).

* August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I, Polish-born theater impressario and composer ( born 1847 )

Oscar I ( born Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte ; 4 July 1799 – 8 July 1859 ) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death.

The following two offspring were similarly named after awards ; Oscar, born July 18, 1969, and Toni, on December 28, 1971.

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho ( born December 15, 1907 ) is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture.

Oscar Berninghaus was born on October 2, 1874 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Carl Oscar Borg was born into a poor family in Grinstads parish, County of Älvsborg, Dalsland province, in Västergötland, Sweden.

Gustaf V was born in Drottningholm Palace in Ekerö, Stockholm County, the son of Prince Oscar and Princess Sofia.

* Wendell Mayes, an Oscar nominated Hollywood writer was born in Hayti.

* Oscar Gamble ( born 1949 ), former outfielder / designated hitter who played for the New York Yankees.

* Richard Anderson ( born 1926 ), best known for his role as Oscar Goldman, in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman TV series and subsequent TV movies.

De la Renta was born Oscar Aristides de la Renta Fiallo in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to a Dominican mother, Maria Antonia Fiallo, and a Puerto Rican father, Oscar Avelino de la Renta.

* Oscar Robertson-Former basketball player born here.

When Dennis Chapin was involved in the shooting death of Oscar J. Rountree at the Dan Breen Saloon in San Antonio, Texas, the community changed its name to Edinburg to honor John Young, a prominent businessman who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.