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Lyle Ritz
Lyle Ritz
American bassist and ukulele player
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Bob Dorough
Bob Dorough
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Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin
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Brownie McGhee
Brownie McGhee
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F. Henri Klickmann
F. Henri Klickmann
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Percy Wenrich
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Cliff Edwards
American recording artist; musician, singer, actor and voice actor (1895-1971)
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Reverend Gary Davis
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Haruomi Hosono
Japanese musician, Yellow Magic Orchestra member (1947-)
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Hy Zaret
Hy Zaret
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Peter DeRose
Peter DeRose
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Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
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Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin
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Lincoln Mayorga
Lincoln Mayorga
American musician
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Wendell Hall
Wendell Hall
American musician
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Ned Washington
Ned Washington
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Samuel Charters
Samuel Charters
American music historian and musician
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Jimmy Wilson
Jimmy Wilson
American musician (1921-1965)
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Shigeru Suzuki
Shigeru Suzuki
Japanese guitarist, composer, arranger, music producer (1951-)
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Grant Clarke
Grant Clarke
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Charley Straight
Charley Straight
American musician
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Sonny Terry
Sonny Terry
American Piedmont blues musician
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Fred Fisher
Fred Fisher
German-born American songwriter, Tin Pan Alley music publisher
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Mel Bay
Mel Bay
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Virgil Childers
Virgil Childers
musical artist
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Steve Ross
Steve Ross
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Gerald Ross
Gerald Ross
American musician
Ian Whitcomb
English singer-songwriter (1941-2020)

Ian Whitcomb

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English singer-songwriter (1941-2020)

Ian Timothy Whitcomb (10 July 1941 – 19 April 2020) was an English entertainer, singer-songwriter, record producer, writer, broadcaster and actor. As part of the British Invasion, his hit song "You Turn Me On" reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965.

He wrote several books on popular music, beginning with After the Ball, published by Penguin Books (Britain) and Simon & Schuster (United States) in 1972. He accompanied his singing by playing the ukulele and, through his records, concerts, and film work, helped to stimulate the revival of interest in the instrument. His re-creation of the music played aboard the RMS Titanic in the film of that name won a Grammy Award in 1998 for package design and a nomination for Whitcomb's liner notes (Titanic: Music as Heard on the Fateful Voyage).