Previous posts for August 30th are found here: Regina Resnik (2019), George Frederick Root (2020), and Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke (2021)
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Johnny Mann (30 August 1928 – 18 June 2014) was an American arranger. composer, conductor, and singer, best known as the leader of the highly successful Johnny Mann Singers.
Mann Handled
Along with Lawrence Welk, Mitch Miller, Ray Conniff and other bandleaders who offered popular melodies in palatable choral arrangements, Mr. Mann helped define a musical genre that was potently counter-countercultural. – Bruce Weber, “Johnny Mann, Leader of Easy-Listening Singers, Dies at 85, New York Times (24 June 2014).
If you think back
Perhaps you can
Recall a track
By Johnny Mann,
Whose cheerful clutch
Of smiling singers
Had just the touch
For cautious swingers
Who thought that rock
Might be OK,
But shouldn’t shock
Such folks as they.
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