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The Judds

The Judds are an American mother/daughter country music duo of Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna.

Awards:

  • Country Music Association - 1991 Vocal Duo of the Year
  • Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
    • 1985: for "Mama He's Crazy"
    • 1986: for "Why Not Me"
    • 1987: for "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days) "
    • 1989: for "Give a Little Love"
    • 1992: for "Love Can Build a Bridge"


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. He died in New York City in 1971. Awards:. Lewis kept his band together through the 1950s, and continued to make appearances on television and in Las Vegas into the 1960s. The Judds are an American mother/daughter country music duo of Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna. Lewis's catch-phrase was cheerfully asking the audience, "Is Everybody Happy?" Lewis participated in three sound films using this title from 1929 to 1943. 1992: for "Love Can Build a Bridge". Lewis's band got cornier and schmaltzier as the Great Depression wore on, but this seemed to match the general public's taste, as he kept commercially successful during an era when many bands broke up.

1989: for "Give a Little Love". Ted Lewis's band was second only to the Paul Whiteman in popularity during the 1920s, and arguably played more real jazz with less pretension than Whiteman, especially in his recordings of the late 1920s. 1987: for "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days) ". For years his band also included jazz greats Muggsy Spanier on trumpet and George Brunis on trombone. 1986: for "Why Not Me". Lewis's clarinet playing never evolved beyond his style of 1919 which in later years would sound increasingly corny, but Lewis certainly knew what good clarinet playing sounded like, for he hired musicians like Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, and (the wonderful and, unfortunately, largely forgotten) Don Murray to play clarinet in his band. 1985: for "Mama He's Crazy". At the start of the 1920s he was considered by many people without previous knowledge of jazz (that is to say, most of America) to be one of the leading lights of hot jazz.

Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal

    . By 1919 Lewis was leading his own band, and had a recording contract with Columbia Records, which marketed him as their answer to the Original Dixieland Jass Band who recorded for Victor records. Country Music Association - 1991 Vocal Duo of the Year. He improved a bit later, forming his style from the influences of the first New Orleans clarinetists to reside in New York, Larry Shields, Alcide Nunez, and Achille Baquet. At the time, Lewis didn't seem to be able to do much on the clarinet other than trill. He first recorded in 1917 with Earl Fuller's Jass Band, who were making an energetic if somewhat clumsy attempt to copy the sound of the city's newest sensation, the Original Dixieland Jass Band.

    Born in Circleville, Ohio, Lewis was one of the first Northern musicians to start imitating the New Orleans jazz musicians who came up to New York in the teens. He led a band presenting a combination of jazz, hokey comedy, and schmaltzy sentimentality that was a hit with the American public. Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis (June 6, 1890-August 25, 1971), was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician.