ABSTRACT
American tenor, dialect comedian, and composer; probably born in Cleveland. He made only five records, all of them two-minute Edison wax cylinders. He began with his own composition, “Marianna,” in Italian dialect (#9712; 1907). His final record was a Jewish dialect song, (#10165; 1911). He wrote or collaborated on “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” (1918), “Down Among the Sheltering Palms” (1915), and “I’m Like a Ship Without a Sail” (1920). Brockman died in Santa Monica, California. [Walsh 1967/10.]
Filling the vacuum caused by dissolution of the Judds in 1991, Brooks and Dunn became the most popular country music duo of the 1990s. Although solidly within the New Traditionist movement, their eclectic style-incorporating elements of folk, blues, Cajun, jazz, and pop-is a product of differing musical backgrounds.
