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Born in El Monte, California, John Paul Larkin suffered from a severe stutter by the time he learned to speak which led to an emotionally traumatic childhood. At age twelve, he began to learn piano and was introduced to the art of scat singing two years later, through records by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, among others. Larkin became a ...
El Monte is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city lies in the San Gabriel Valley, east of the city of Los Angeles. El Monte's slogan is "Welcome to Friendly El Monte" and is historically known as " The End of the Santa Fe Trail ". As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 109,450, down from 113,475 at ...
Scatman John. John Paul Larkin (March 13, 1942 – December 3, 1999), known professionally as Scatman John, was an American musician. A prolific jazz pianist and vocalist for several decades, he rose to prominence during the 1990s through his fusion of scat singing and dance music. He recorded five albums, which were released between 1986 and ...
A chapter in the book, Generations of youth: youth cultures and history in twentieth-century America by Joe Austin and Michael Willard, is entitled “Memories of El Monte" Intercultural Dance Halls in Post-World War II Los Angeles. [19] "Memories of El Monte" was used in the movie Colors. [20] It is the name of an annual oldies show in El ...
The El Monte Legion Stadium —also known as Legion Stadium, [ 2 ]El Monte Union High School Auditorium, [ 3 ]El Monte Auditorium, [ 4 ]El Monte Gymnasium, [ 5 ]Old El Monte Gym, [ 6 ] and The Pink Elephant[ 7 ] —was a 3,500-seat multi-purpose indoor venue in El Monte, California. It had originally been a combined auditorium and gymnasium ...
Hill Valley is a fictional town in California that serves as the setting of the Back to the Future trilogy and its animated spin-off series. In the trilogy, Hill Valley is seen in four different time periods – 1885, 1955, 1985, and 2015 – as well as in a dystopian alternate 1985. [1] The films contain many sight gags, verbal innuendos and ...
In 1960, Art Laboe released one of the first oldies compilations, Memories of El Monte, on his record label, Original Sound. The record was a collection of classic doo-wop songs by bands that used to play at the dances Laboe organized at Legion Stadium in El Monte, California, [83] beginning in 1955.
Angélica Garcia was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in El Monte in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles. [2] Garcia's mother, who is of Mexican and Salvadoran descent, was a freestyle musician who performed under the mononym Angelica and scored a top-40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with her 1991 cover of the Rosie and the Originals's song, "Angel Baby".