He attended Mission High School there before joining the Romancers, a doo-wop group.
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This incisive biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald attempts to distance the writer from the "literary world of flappers, romancers, and boozers" with which he is often conflated.
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No wonder the riverbank has filled up with even more young romancers than usual, all looking as deeply into their glowing handsets as into the eyes of their paramours.
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There was once a time when romantic films actually had box office success, and didn't require one of the romancers to be in a superhero costume to get a major studio's attention.
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And, yeah, they're professionals who can rub their thumbs and forefingers together if things get too heavy, but there's no way having a pretend romantic relationship on the side doesn't take some sort of toll on a marriage, particularly if one of the romancers actually kinda likes the mark in question.
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Two Romancers songs are included on The Eastside Sound CD issued by Dionysus Records in 1996. Their album, The Slauson Shuffle by The Romancers was re-issued in 1995. The Romancers were the first East L.A. Chicano band to record an album and were the main influence of the mid-sixties East L.A. sound.
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The Romancers were founded in the early 1961 by Max Uballez in the largely Hispanic Lincoln Heights section of Eastside Los Angeles, California and their members attended Lincoln High School. The Romancers' manager was Billy Cardenas, and their name was inspired by posters and flyers promoting dances in the East L.A. area, which often read "Dance and Romance...this Saturday night." Max Uballez thought that seeing "Dance and Romance to The Romancers" would sound appealing on their flyers. The Romancers was the brand name that Max Uballez worked under.
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Max Uballez opened the door airplay on KFWB and local Top 40 radio for the groups of East Los Angeles. They sometimes were promoted, as "Max Uballez or Maximillian and his Romancers Band", and the Romancers got so busy that they would sometimes split off into two groups to cover two different gigs. Max Uballez developed a style and a musical boot camp training an alternate Romancers band to cover other shows. Richard Provencio, Frankie Garcia, Billy Watson and Johnny Diaz became were the core alternate Romancers band.
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He was involved in songwriting and production the Romancers' records, as well as other top Eastside bands.
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Were it not for the oppression of his futile and philoprogenitive presence, imaginative writers would be poets and romancers.
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The Romancers began to record as the featured house band at the legendary El Monte Legion Stadium and had a falling out with their manager, Billy Cardenas, over the band's working with a certain promoter. As a result of this situation, Max and Billy split and Max continued with The Romancers. Andy Tesso and Armando Mora left with Billy and the rest of the band stayed with Max and continued their engagement. The Romancers went on to work with Chuck Berry, Little Stevie Wonder, The Motown Review, Johnny Guitar Watson, The Four Seasons and more.
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The Romancers began to develop vocal groups as part of their live show, including the Heartbreakers and Sisters, the Slauson Brothers. In 1963, the Romancers backed the Heartbreakers on the song, "Every Time I See You", composed by the then-unknown Frank Zappa, joined by Zappa on lead guitar. Max Uballez became a major figure in East L.A. rock in the mid- to late- 1960s, writing songs (sometimes uncredited) for the Romancers, the Premiers, Cannibal & the Headhunters, and the Atlantics and co-produced the Romancers’ Linda singles with Eddie Davis, as well as records by Little Ray, Cannibal & the Headhunters. With Davis Uballez arranged and co-produced Cannibal & the Headhunters' hit version of Chris Kenner's "Land of a Thousand Dances" which landed the group a spot on the Beatles' 1965 U.S. tour.
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They would evolve into Rhythm Playboys. As other musicians flowed through the Romancers they absorbed Max's Romancer style and that would flow into other bands.
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In 1961 Billy Cardenas and Max formed a partnership and created the name for the band. Max formed The Romancerettes a girls club to promote dances featuring The Romancers. The Romancerettes were led by Max's girlfriend Linda they would be the promotional arm for the Romancers band. Their first dance and show was at the GiGi hall in Lincoln Heights the year was 1962.
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The Romancers were an American, Chicano rock band, from the Eastside of Los Angeles, California, United States, who were active in the 1960s. They were one of the first East L.A. bands to record and paved the way for acts such as the Premiers and Cannibal & the Headhunters. The Romancers made two albums on Del-Fi Records and a string of singles for Eddie Davis' Linda label. Max Uballez was the group's leader, chief songwriter, and rhythm guitarist.
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The Romancers were spotted by Eddie Davis while doing a show at Rainbow Gardens in Pomona. In 1964 they began to recorded for one of Davis' labels, Linda Records named for Max's wife and were the first East L.A. band to work with Davis, who went on to record many other Eastside bands throughout the 1960s. The band would record a string of singles for the label. On these records, the Romancers began to use vocals.
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For this session Max used Frank Zappa on lead guitar. Max would change the Romancers band lineup depending on the project he was working on and who was available. In essence whoever played with Max was a Romancer.
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For live performances the band line up was ever changing. Max had a pool of musicians that he would pull from time to time. He used them as needed for gigs or recording. This rotation of musicians through the Romancers band became a boot camp for the East Side Sound.
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In the Tavola Ritonda, Camelot falls to ruin after the death of Arthur. The romancers' versions of Camelot drew on earlier descriptions of Arthur's fabulous court. From Geoffrey's grand description of Caerleon, Camelot gains its impressive architecture, its many churches and the chivalry and courtesy of its inhabitants. Geoffrey's description in turn drew on an already established tradition in Welsh oral tradition of the grandeur of Arthur's court.
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He became interested in R&B; music listening to black music radio stations. An early influence he cited is Little Richard who he first heard when he was fifteen or sixteen years old, and later Ray Charles, Bobby Bland, and B.B. King. Medley first formed a singing duo called The Romancers with his friend Don Fiduccia, who also played the guitar. He began to write songs and record multi-track recordings in his living room.
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He started singing in a doo-wop group, the Romancers, in his early teens, and first recorded with them for Dootone Records in 1956. Their recordings included "House Cat", included on several later rock and roll compilations. However, the group soon fell apart, and Freeman started a new group, the Vocaleers (not to be confused with an earlier group of the same name who recorded "Is It a Dream")."Bobby Freeman biography", rockabilly.nl.
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At 20th Century Fox, Jourdan played the lead in a remake of Bird of Paradise (1951). The studio kept him on to appear in Anne of the Indies (1951), directed by Jacques Tourneur. He was announced for the romantic male lead in the Fox remake of Les MiserablesDrama: Debra Paget, Jourdan Play Hugo Romancers Los Angeles Times 9 Nov 1951: B8 but ended up not appearing in the film. He was in a comedy, The Happy Time (1952).
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The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the 1894 play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud. The show's original off-Broadway production ran a total of 42 years (until 2002) and 17,162 performances, making it the world's longest- running musical.Official Website.
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He subsequently worked with younger Chicano artists such as Quetzal, Lysa Flores, and La Banda Skalavera. Max is now CEO of XELA-CO MEDIA, a music promotion and production company and lives in Nevada. The Romancers' work has come to the attention of music enthusiasts. Eight of their singles are included on Varèse Sarabande's 1999 four volume CD set, East Side Sound, Volumes 1 thru 4, which also includes recordings co- produced by Max Uballez for other Eastside bands.
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Russell Edwards, reviewing for Variety, criticized the second part of this film, which he says is "unable to maintain the outlandish phallocentric humor of its first hour". He further criticized the last quarter of the film, which Edwards says "sees Giddens overestimating the charm of his own story". Edwards praised the film's cast which, he said, were the film's "greatest asset". He also praised the film as "a much more robust production than many similar youth-skewing Taiwanese romancers over the past decade".
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San Francisco-born teenager Bobby Freeman had been a member of doo- wop groups the Romancers and the Vocaleers. When asked by a local DJ if he had written any songs, he wrote several and recorded them as solo demos. These included "Do You Want to Dance", which was heard by a visiting record label executive, Mortimer Palitz of Jubilee Records. He signed Freeman to the label, and had the original recording overdubbed in New York by session musicians including guitarist Billy Mure.
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Winchester Castle's Great Hall with a 13th-century prop Round Table Arthurian scholar Norris J. Lacy commented that "Camelot, located no where in particular, can be anywhere." The romancers' versions of Camelot draw on earlier traditions of Arthur's fabulous court. The Celliwig of Culhwch and Olwen appears in the Welsh Triads as well; this early Welsh material places Wales' greatest leader outside its national boundaries. Geoffrey's description of Caerleon is probably based on his personal familiarity with the town and its Roman ruins; it is less clear that Caerleon was associated with Arthur before Geoffrey.
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The Dreamlovers were an American doo wop group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formed in 1956, the group took several names early in its career, recording demos as The Romancers and The Midnighters (under which name they backed Chubby Checker on a 1960 recording of "The Twist"). They recorded briefly for V-Tone Records before signing to Heritage Records, who released their 1961 single "When We Get Married". The song reached No. 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100; the next year, their tune "If I Should Lose You" (on End Records) made it to No. 62.
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The old notion that some of these Welsh versions actually underlie Geoffrey's Historia, advanced by antiquarians such as the 18th-century Lewis Morris, has long since been discounted in academic circles.. See further, and . As a result of this popularity, Geoffrey's Historia Regum Britanniae was enormously influential on the later medieval development of the Arthurian legend. While it was not the only creative force behind Arthurian romance, many of its elements were borrowed and developed (e.g., Merlin and the final fate of Arthur), and it provided the historical framework into which the romancers' tales of magical and wonderful adventures were inserted.
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This lively tradition continued into the 19th century with the rags to riches genre to which almost all the great Victorian romancers have contributed. The protagonist is thrown by fate into poverty and after many difficulties achieves a golden happiness. Often an artifice is employed to effect the passage from one state to another such as an unexpected inheritance, a miraculous gift, grand reunions, etc.See Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, just to mention Charles Dickens and in a sense, it is the route followed by Charlotte's and Anne's protagonists, even if the riches they win are more those of the heart than of the wallet.
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In the end of April 2008, bassist Steve Chiles, having formerly played for the band Brian Bachman and the New Romancers, entered the band as the final member of WK,P!. In the wake of both Steve departing the band to dedicate his time to family/work, and Julia's departure due to time constraints, the band acquired a new bassist- Daniel Medley's brother-in-law, Todd Baker. We Know, Plato! disbanded in June 2009 due to both Willson's and Strong's preference to concentrate on a more focused, truer sound, as was soon to be found in their side-project "Carlyle Petes' Chessmen of Doom", which became Make Phantoms.
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After playing on his elder brother’s sound system Romancers Delight, Ron was spotted by the East London sound system, TNT Road-Show Sound System, which he played on between 1982 and 1986. With his time with TNT and additionally playing at two key events, one being a sound clash at Acton Town Hall, ‘Soul All Dayer of the Century’ (1987) and the other being an event at Loyola Hall, Ron's public appearance grew. With that, Ron and Rebel MC met and began working together. First, playing together on the Beatfreak Sound System and in the studio to record tracks, including recording "Micron – Eastenders Rap" (1988).
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The New York Times praised the collection, saying "when Mr. Corley writes lacquer legends of things far away and long ago, he assumes the mantle of all romancers since the telling of 'Arabian Nights'. . . . Life may be seldom so noble, so wistful or so colorful, but these stories, for all their artifice, give spur to the imagination.""New Arabian Nights", The New York Times, October 18, 1931, p.64 Lin Carter describes Corley's style as possessing a quality of "gorgeousness", which he characterizes as having "the sort of verbal richness that bejewels the pages of Clark Ashton Smith's work or the Arabian Nights ... lazy and singing, [with] a certain playfulness to it ..."Carter, Lin, ed.
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Guinevere by W. H. Margetson (1914) Relatively few members of Arthur's family in the Welsh materials are carried over to the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth and chivalric romancers. His grandfather Anlawd Wledic and his maternal uncles, aunts and cousins do not appear there, and neither do any of his sons or his paternal relatives. Only the core family seem to have made the transition: his wife Gwenhwyfar (who became Guinevere), his father Uther, his mother (Igerna) and his sister-son Gwalchmei (Gawain). Gwalchmei's mother – Arthur's sister – failed to make the journey, Gwyar's place being taken by Anna, the wife of Loth, in Geoffrey's account, whilst Medraut (Mordred) is made into a second sister-son for Arthur (a status he does not have in the Welsh material).
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