◇ image via WikipediaDinah Shore
Dinah Shore is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Xavier Cugat, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Tennessee Ernie Ford. Those roots explain a lot about how Dinah Shore arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as June Christy, Doris Day, Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington and Carmen McRae, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ringo Starr, Jo Stafford, Patti Page, Ella Fitzgerald and Mahalia Jackson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Dinah Shore, reaching back through Xavier Cugat and forward to Ringo Starr. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Dinah Shore connections
Dinah Shore grew out of Xavier Cugat, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Tennessee Ernie Ford, shares an orbit with June Christy, Doris Day, Peggy Lee and Dinah Washington, went on to shape Ringo Starr, Jo Stafford, Patti Page and Ella Fitzgerald. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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