Jordan's cool music, along with that of Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Billy Wright, and Wynonie Harris, is now also referred to as jump blues.

Also in 1948, Wynonie Harris ' remake of Roy Brown's 1947 recording " Good Rockin ' Tonight " hit the charts in the # 2 spot, following band leader Sonny Thompson's " Long Gone " at # 1.

Rock and roll pioneer Wynonie Harris ; jazz great Preston Love ; drummer Buddy Miles ; and Luigi Waites are among the city's homegrown talent.

Wynonie Harris ( August 24, 1915 – June 14, 1969 ), born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics.

In 1940, Wynonie and Ollie Harris moved to Los Angeles, California, leaving Pattie with Mallie in Omaha.

* Wynonie Harris Complete Discography at This is Vintage Now

The first cover was by Lionel Hampton featuring Sonny Parker, then Wynonie Harris, and lastly, Loy Gordon & His Pleasant Valley Boys with their hillbilly-bop rendition.

By the end of the 1940s, he had had several hits, and helped pave the way for contemporaries like Wynonie Harris and John Lee Hooker.

Jump was especially popular in the late 1940s and early 1950s, through artists such as Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Charles Brown, T-Bone Walker, Roy Milton, Billy Wright and Wynonie Harris.

* Wynonie Harris

His band included Wynonie Harris and Charles Brown.

He began singing when required to stand in for Wynonie Harris at a show in Texas.

In 1944 Millinder recruited singer Wynonie Harris, and their recording together of " Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well " became the group ’ s biggest hit in 1945, staying at No. 1 on the R & B chart for eight weeks and also crossing over to reach No. 7 on the US pop chart.

He is best known for his tracks, " Honky Tonk " and " Hippy Dippy ", and variously working with The Ink Spots, Johnny Otis, Wynonie Harris, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Jordan.

Blues singer Wynonie Harris was born and raised in Omaha.

Omaha-born Wynonie Harris, one of the founders of rock and roll, got his start at the North Omaha clubs and for a time lived in the now demolished Logan Fontennelle projects at 2213 Charles Street.

African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s were developing an outgrowth of rhythm and blues into a genre called rock and roll, which featured a very strong backbeat and whose prominent exponents included Louis Jordan and Wynonie Harris.

One of his first credited recordings as bandleader was with Wynonie Harris on " Drinkin ' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee ".

* Wynonie Harris

*" Good Rocking Tonight ", in separate versions by Roy Brown ( 1947 ) and Wynonie Harris ( 1948 ) led to a craze for blues with " rocking " in the title.

*" Good Rockin ' Tonight " by Roy Brown ( 1947 ), as covered by Wynonie Harris

His band backed the singer Wynonie Harris on the session that produced the hit " Good Rocking Tonight " though Page was never credited as the leader.

Artists and groups that were important to the formative years of this genre include: Clifford Curry, Artie Shaw, Wynonie Harris, Ruth Brown, Little Willie John, Earl Bostic, The Drifters, Jimmy Cavallo, Wilbert Harrison, Clyde McPhatter, Billy Ward and His Dominoes, Hank Ballard, James & Bobby Purify, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, The Tams, Bob and Earl, The Tymes, The 5 Royales, The Coasters, Fats Domino, Jimmy McCracklin, Brenton Wood, Solomon Burke, Sam Cooke, Jimmy James, The Platters, The Four Tops, Louis Prima, Arthur Alexander, Stick McGhee, Jackie Brenston, Wilbert Harrison, Tyrone Davis, Big Joe Turner, Bruce Channel, Wilson Pickett, Clarence Carter, Dinah Washington, Billy Stewart, The Temptations, The Impressions, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, The O ' Jays, The Spinners, Eddie Floyd, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Etta James, The Checkers, The Clovers, Barbara Lewis, Don Covay, Mary Wells, Garnet Mimms and The Enchanters, Ben E. King, Major Lance, Willie Tee and Ernie K-Doe.

Teddy Edwards played with many jazz notables, including his personal friend Charlie Parker, Roy Milton, Wynonie Harris, Vince Guaraldi, Joe Castro and Ernie Andrews.

One of the first relevant successful covers was Wynonie Harris's transformation of Roy Brown's 1947 original jump blues hit " Good Rocking Tonight " into a more showy rocker and the Louis Prima rocker " Oh Babe " in 1950, as well as Amos Milburn's cover of what may have been the first white rock and roll record, Hardrock Gunter's " Birmingham Bounce " in 1949.

By the end of the 1940s, he had produced nineteen major hits, and helped pave the way for contemporaries like Wynonie Harris, John Lee Hooker and Roy Milton.

Ollie worked as a barmaid and nurse ; Wynonie sang in clubs as well as taking on some odd jobs.

* 1947 – Emmylou Harris, American singer

* 1947 – Major Harris, American singer

* 1947 – Norman Harris, American musician ( The Trammps )

Born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Harris County, Texas, Anna Nicole was the child of Donald Eugene Hogan ( July 12, 1947 – September 19, 2009 ) and Virgie Mae ( née Tabers ; born July 12, 1951 ), who married on February 22, 1967 and divorced on November 4, 1969.

The long-closed Bent Door Café and trading post, built by Bob Harris in 1947 on the site of the 1940s Kozy Kottage Kamp, incorporates portions of a former air traffic control tower decommissioned after World War II ; the tower windows originally slanted toward the runway, so the door is bent to match.

* Major Harris ( born Major Harris III, February 9, 1947, Richmond, Virginia ) ( from 1971 to 1974 )

* Harris, Arthur ( 1947 ); Bomber Offensive, Pen & Swords, ( Paperback 2005 ), ISBN 1-84415-210-3 ; page 105

Louis Harris had been in the field of public opinion since 1947 when he joined the Elmo Roper firm, then later became partner.

In 1947, Forsythe joined the initial class of the soon-to-be prestigious Actors Studio, where he met other promising young actors including Marlon Brando and Julie Harris.

René Reynaldo Harris ( 11 November 1947 – 5 July 2008 ) was President of the Republic of Nauru four times between 1999 and 2004.

* Julie Harris ( 1947 )

* James Harris ( quarterback ) ( born 1947 ), first modern black professional American football quarterback to start a season

However, her Broadway debut was in Loco in 1947, directed by Jed Harris, followed soon after by Made in Heaven ( as a replacement ) and then the revue Angel in the Wings ( 1947 ) in which she performed comedy sketches and the song " Civilization ".

During summer 1947, after his second year of college, he and his friend Ron Harris did missions work in Mexico.

On 15 September 1945, he followed Sir Arthur ' Bomber ' Harris as Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command, retaining command until 16 January 1947.

* Ronald Allen Harris ( 1947 – 1980 ), bronze medal winner in the lightweight division at the 1964 Summer Olympics

* William Harris ( tennis ) ( born 1947 ), American tennis player

In 1947, Hill joined such other actors as Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Julie Harris, as one of the 50 fortunate applicants ( out of approximately 700, interviewed ) to be accepted by the newly created Actors Studio.

In 1947, the year this university established its linguistics department, Chomsky met Zellig Harris, a prominent Bloomfieldian linguist.