Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Cliff Edwards


Related Topics

In the News (Fri 17 May 13)

  
  Cliff Edwards Instruments
Note the inscription "Cliff Edwards Tenortrope" on the pegboard in the third photo.
The son states that his father always thought that the fellow who gave up the instrument was Cliff Edwards.
This is a Cliff Edwards plastic uke from the 1950s.
www.jazzage1920s.com /cliffedwards/instruments/instruments.php   (287 words)

  
  Cliff Edwards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clifton A. Edwards was born in Hannibal, Missouri.
Edwards was careless with the money he got in the boom years of the 1920s, and while he continued working in the Great Depression he would never again enjoy his former prosperity.
Edwards was broke in his later years, living in a home for indigent actors, often spending his days hanging around the Walt Disney Studios to be available any time he could get voice work and being taken to lunch by animators to whom he told stories of his days in Vaudeville.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cliff_Edwards   (788 words)

  
 Cliff Edwards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Cliff Edwards (14 June, 1895 - 17 July, 1971), also known as "Ukelele Ike", was a United States singer and musician who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, and also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career.
Edwards voice was also featured in two other films that year; he voiced the dying Confederate soldier in Gone With the Wind, and most famously the character Jiminy Cricket in the Disney Studios cartoon feature Pinocchio.
Edwards was broke in his later years, living in a home for indigent actors, often spending his days hanging around the Walt Disney Studios to be available any time he could get voice work and being taken to lunch by animators who he told stories of his days in Vaudeville.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Cliff_Edwards   (780 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Cliff Edwards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Cliff had been exposed to religious singing, but this "modern miracle" opened new doors to his inner drive for music and song.
Edwards was best known in Hollywood for introducing the song, "Singin' in the Rain" in The Hollywood Review of 1929 at Metro, where he was under term contract.
Cliff Edwards, to this day, is best remembered for his work in that film.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cliff-Edwards   (2578 words)

  
 Cliff Edwards - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
Edwards was careless the money he got in the boom years of the 1920s, and while he continued working in the Great_Depression he would never again enjoy his former prosperity.
Edwards voice was also featured in two other films that year; he voiced the dying Confederate soldier in ''Gone_With_the_Wind'', and most famously the character Jiminy_Cricket in the Disney_Studios cartoon feature ''Pinocchio''.
Edwards was broke in his later years, living in a home for indigent actors, often spending his days haning around the Walt_Disney_Studios to be availible any time he could get voice work and being taken to lunch by animators who he told stories of his days in Vaudeville.
www.indexsuche.com /Cliff_Edwards.html   (713 words)

  
 Cliff Edwards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Edwards was careless the money he got the boom years of the 1920s and he continued working in the Great Depression he would never again enjoy his prosperity.
Edwards voice was also featured in other films that year; he voiced the Confederate soldier in Gone With the Wind and most famously the character Jiminy Cricket in the Disney Studios cartoon feature Pinocchio.
Edwards was broke in his later years in a home for indigent actors often his days hanging around the Walt Disney to be available any time he could voice work and being taken to lunch animators who he told stories of his in Vaudeville.
www.freeglossary.com /Ukelele_Ike   (966 words)

  
 Cliff edwards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Start the Cliff edwards article or add a request for it.
Look for "Cliff edwards" in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project.
Look for Cliff edwards in the Wikimedia Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/cliff_edwards   (168 words)

  
 Cliff Edwards Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Cliff Edwards (also known as "Ukulele Ike") is best remembered to the world as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in the Walt Disney movie Pinocchio and for his recording of When You Wish Upon A Star from the same movie.
During this period Cliff learns to play the ukulele as an accompanying instrument due to the lack pianos in the bars.
Cliff was a ukulele virtuoso, and is still revered to this day for his uke skills.
www.dgarrick.com /cliffedwards/biography/biography.php   (774 words)

  
 Cliff Edwards "Ukulele Ike"
Cliff Edwards got his start in show business as a teenager in St. Louis where he sang in movie theatres and saloons.
Edwards had a wonderful voice with at least a three octave range and he would inject his "effin" solos into his songs in the same way that a Jazz musician would take a solo.
Cliff became a sensation singing the song and he and Joe Frisco, a stuttering comedian and dancer, formed a vaudeville act that was successful enough to end up playing at the Palace in New York City.
www.redhotjazz.com /cliffedwards.html   (1232 words)

  
 Cliff Edwards
Edwards learnt to accompany himself on the ukulele, and developed his own vocal technique called eefin' in imitation of a kazoo!
Often known as 'Ukulele Ike', Edwards famously introduced great songs such as Fascinating Rhythm and Singin' in the Rain to the world, and his record sales are reported to run into the region of a staggering 70 million or more.
Edwards' recording of When You Wish Upon a Star in this role is known to this day throughout the English-speaking world, and although his name is now largely forgotten, his voice - quite deservedly - will live on for many years to come.
www.ukes.freeserve.co.uk /cliffedwards.htm   (306 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.