The Swingle Singers used nonsense words to sound like instruments, but have been known to produce non-verbal versions of musical instruments.

Singers in this class, like the coloratura contraltos, are rare.

During the period from the 1940s through the 1960s, sparked by the American folk music revival, young performers inspired by traditional folk music and groups like the Almanac Singers and The Weavers began writing and performing their own original material and creating their own musical arrangements.

Other musical features of the Chautauqua included groups like the Jubilee Singers singing a mix of spirituals and popular tunes, and other singers and instrumental groups playing popular music, ballads and songs from the " old country ".

Singers like Wilson Pickett and Percy Sledge were especially popular, and inspired South African performers to enter the field with an organ, a bass-and-drum rhythm section and an electric guitar.

Artists like the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, The Swan Silvertones, Clara Ward Singers and Sensational Nightingales became stars across the country ; other early artists like Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Johnnie Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett began their career in gospel quartets during this period, only to achieve even greater fame in the ' 60s as the pioneers of soul music, itself a secularized, R & B-influenced form of gospel.

Singers like Chava Alberstein, Yehoram Gaon and Naomi Shemer continued to write and perform songs in the canonical " Land of Israel " style.

Singers like Ustad Barkat Ali and many other singers in the past used to practice it, but due to the lack of historical records, many names are anonymous.

Singers like Jagjit Singh ( who first used a guitar in ghazals ), Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain, Hariharan, Mohammad Rafi, Pankaj Udhas and many others have been able to give a new shape to the ghazal by incorporating elements of Western music.

Artists and groups like the Samba Squad, Shadowland Theatre, Clay & Paper Theatre, EagleHeart Drummers and Singers, Spirit Wind, Gaa Dibaatjimat Ngashi, Tumivut Youth Shelter, Maracatu Nunca Antes, Darbazi Choir, Circle-Sing, Richard Underhill, the Befana Choir and the Kensington Horns participate in this event.

Singers like Naifaru Dohokko became famous through songs with bulbul music in the background.

and they were hounded by hostile reviews, exposure of their Communist ties and negative coverage in the New York press, like the headline " Commie Singers try to Infiltrate Radio ", They disbanded in late 1942 or early 1943.

The encounter and other short stories in the anthologies provides much deep background about human-treecat relations, and reveal, as explicitly stated in A Rising Thunder in exposition to the Haven delegation, the Treecat elders and society as a whole have effective recordings of their experiences with humanity through the offices of their Memory Singers, like Samantha, and further they confer planetwide about decisions regarding their relationships with humanity.

Calypso and spiritual-influenced vocal choirs, like the Emerald Isle Community Singers, are popular.

Helms presented top blues performers including Country Joe and The Fish ; Howlin ' Wolf ; Bo Diddley ; Muddy Waters ; Little Walter ; Buddy Guy ; Junior Wells ; the Paul Butterfield Blues Band ; Buddy Miles ; James Cotton Blues Band ; John Mayall ; Big Mama Thornton ; Albert Collins ; Steve Miller ( musician ); Mike Bloomfield ; Elvin Bishop ; Blues Project, with Al Kooper ; John Hammond ; Charlie Musselwhite ; Siegal Schwall ; rock bands like the Doors ; Buffalo Springfield ; the Byrds ; Bill Haley & His Comets ; The Kinks ; The Edwin Hawkins Singers ; the Animals ' Eric Burdon & War ; Mothers of Invention ); Lovin ' Spoonful ; The Carlos Santana Blues Band ; Sir Douglas Quintet ; the Soul Survivors ; the Fugs ; Blood, Sweat & Tears ; The Association ; Shorty Featuring Georgie Fame ; Iron Butterfly ; the Youngbloods, with Jesse Colin Young ; Vanilla Fudge ; Steppenwolf ( band ); Poco ; Love, with Arthur Lee ( musician ); sarode-player and Indian music teacher, Ali Akbar Khan ; Sandy Bull ; Blue Cheer ; the Leaves ; New Riders of the Purple Sage ; Barry McGuire ; Flamin ' Groovies ; the Loading Zone ; It's a Beautiful Day ; Joy of Cooking ; the Grass Roots ; the Sons of Adam ; Sons of Champlin ; Captain Beefheart ; the Electric Flag ; Son House ; Velvet Underground ; Pacific Gas and Electric ; Moby Grape ; the Sopwith Camel ; 13th Floor Elevators ; The Charlatans ( U. S. band ); Allmen Joy ( see http :// wingswest. net ); Mother Earth ; Southern Comfort ; The Ace of Cups ; Tyrannosaurus Rex ; Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band ; Flying Burrito Brothers ; Congress of Love ; Notes From the Underground ; Chrome Circus ; Initial Shock ; Oxford Circle ; Daily Flash ; Electric Train ; Sparrow ; the Orchestra ; Hourglass ; Kaleidoscope ; Mt.

The performers associated with the Greenwich Village scene had sporadic mainstream success in the 1940s and 50s ; some, like Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers, did well, but most were confined to local coffeehouses and other venues.

The record label was launched to promote European artists like Françoise Hardy, Raymond Lefevre, and the Barclay Singers.

From decades past, pioneer groups like Chuck Wagon Gang, The Cook Family Singers, The Happy Goodman Family, The LeFevres, The Lesters, Speer Family, The Rambos, and The Bill Gaither Trio paved the way for modern mixed quartets and family-based lineups such as The Crabb Family, Greater Vision, The Hinsons, The Hoppers, The Isaacs, Jeff and Sheri Easter, The Lewis Family, The Martins, The McKameys, The Perrys, The Perry Sisters, The Ruppes, The Talley Trio.

Singers like Manoella Torres, Francisco Céspedes, Dulce and Gualberto Castro performed several of José Jose's greatest hits.

Singers like Pete Seeger emerged, in groups like the Almanac Singers and The Weavers.

* 1919 – Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist ( The Weavers and Almanac Singers )

He was also associated with the ' Almanac Singers ' ( Almanacs ), a folk singing group which at different times included Woody Guthrie, Will Geer and Pete Seeger.

Among the earliest of the urban folk vocal groups was the Almanac Singers, who were formed specifically for the purpose of popularizing protest music for political ends and whose shifting membership during the early 1940s included Guthrie, Seeger and Lee Hays.

Upon his return to New York in 1959, Lomax produced a concert, Folksong ' 59, in Carnegie Hall, featuring Arkansas singer Jimmy Driftwood ; the Selah Jubilee Singers and Drexel Singers ( gospel groups ); Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim ( blues ); Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys ( bluegrass ); Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger ( urban folk revival ); and The Cadillacs ( a rock and roll group ).

One folk / blues / occasional jazz group, The Rooftop Singers, led by Erik Darling, formerly of The Weavers and an associate of Pete Seeger, recorded an old song " Walk Right In " which featured a strong opening " hook " played on the 12 string guitar.

In 1940 and 1941, Hays and Seeger had co-founded a previous group, the Almanac Singers, which disbanded during the war.

The Almanac Singers was an American New York City-based folk music group, active between 1940 and 1943, founded by Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie.

Talking Union is a 1941 album by the Almanac Singers: Millard Lampell, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger.

Seeger, Woody Guthrie and other members of the Almanac Singers later used the word in New York City to describe their weekly rent parties, which featured many notable folksingers of the time.

The song has since been recorded numerous times, such as by New Lost City Ramblers, The Wolfe Tones, Henry Whitter, Ernest Stoneman, Clayton McMichen, The Carter Family, Blue Sky Boys ( whose version, performed in 1936, appears in the soundtrack of the 1973 film Paper Moon ), Johnny Cash, Porter Wagoner, Pete Seeger, Monroe Brothers, Joan Baez, Olivia Newton-John ( with Mike Sammes, in 1971, her second commercial single in the United States ), Dave Guard and the Whiskeyhill Singers, Mike Ireland and Holler, and Doc Watson, with slightly different lyrics when sung by a female.

Notable alumni include: Gordon McIntire and Reuben Cole, two of the leaders of the Louisiana Farmers ' Union Agnes " Sis " Cunningham and Lee Hays, founders with Pete Seeger of the Almanac Singers and The Weavers in New York City ( Cunningham also later founded and helped edit Broadside Magazine ); Kenneth Patchen, a well-known poet and artist ; and Orval E. Faubus, six-term governor of Arkansas.

Folk-rock drew on the sporadic mainstream success of groups like the Kingston Trio and the Almanac Singers, while Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger helped to politically radicalize rural white folk music.

Several sources of the 1940s-1950s, including the Almanac Singers, wrongly credited Guthrie as the creator of the talking blues ; he was rather the innovator who explored the use of the form for political and topical subject matter.

In February 1929, sixteen months after The Jazz Singers debut, Columbia Pictures became the last of the eight studios that would be known as " majors " during Hollywood's Golden Age to release its first part-talking feature, Lone Wolf's Daughter.

Singers such as Sonny Burgess (" My Bucket's Got A Hole In It "), Charlie Rich, Junior Parker, and Billy Lee Riley recorded for Sun with some success, while others such as Jerry Lee Lewis, BB King, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins would become superstars.

Rolling Stone editor David Fricke wrote that if one wanted to play a single recording that would " epitomize and encapsulate the famed Muscle Shoals Sound ", that record would be " I'll Take You There " by The Staple Singers.

Told by record producer Barry Friedman that there would be work available if he could assemble a band, Stills invited fellow Au Go Go Singers alumnus Richie Furay and former Squires bass player Ken Koblun to come join him in California.

Singers Sinitta and Hazell Dean would later go on to become successful chart acts-both under the producership of Stock Aitken Waterman.

This would be the first in many collaborations with Dulli and The Twilight Singers.

They recruited vocalists Linda Thompson ( real name Linda Übelherr, who would be billed on her solo records as Linda G. Thompson, formerly a member of Les Humphries Singers ), Penny McLean ( real name Gertrude Wirschinger ) and Ramona Wulf ( real name Ramona Kraft, born to a German mother and black American G. I.

Additional vocals were provided by Mary Carewe on all but Dances of Time, which saw the introduction of the Finnish Adiemus Singers ( who would later appear on Vocalise ).

Lee ( who would later become the mother of singers Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick ), later joined the group along with Ann Moss and Marie Epps, and the group was renamed The Drinkard Singers.

KBIG also had its staff of " KBIG Singers ", who would sing the station's jingles and also record their own albums to offer to listeners.

The Blue Stars would later evolve into the Swingle Singers.