Marc Cohn
Marc Craig Cohn( born July 5, 1959) is an American folk rock singer- songwriter and musician.
He won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1992.
Cohn is best known for the song" Walking in Memphis" from his eponymous 1991 album; the song, which was a Top 40 hit, has been described as" an iconic part of the Great American Songbook".
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Petrus de Domarto
Petrus de Domarto( fl. c. 1445– 1455) was a Franco- Flemish composer of the Renaissance.
He was a contemporary and probable acquaintance of Ockeghem, and was the composer of at least one of the first unified mass cycles to be written in continental Europe.
Walter Robinson (composer)
Walter Robinson is an African American composer of the late 20th century.
He is most notable for his 1977 song" Harriet Tubman", which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.
He is also the composer of several operas.
Paul Mares
Paul Mares( June 15, 1900 – August 18, 1949), was an American early dixieland jazz cornet& trumpet player, and leader of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
Mares was born in New Orleans.
His father, Joseph E. Mares, played cornet with the military band at the New Orleans lakefront and ran a fur and hide business.
Like many New Orleans cornetists of his generation, Joe Mares's main influence was" King" Joe Oliver.
About 1919 cornetist Abbie Brunies was offered a job playing in Chicago, and passed the offer on to Mares.
( Brunies thought his New Orleans position of doubling driving a taxi-cab and playing music was more secure than prospects in Chicago.)
Mares established himself as a respected band leader over a group of wild and strong willed musicians, as The New Orleans Rhythm Kings( N.O.R.K.) became one of the best regarded bands in Chicago in the early 1920s.
In late 1924 Mares returned to New Orleans.
He decided to play music on the side while taking over the running of his family fur& hide business.
He ran the business well and with his prosperity purchased 3 homes for himself and his relatives in New Orleans' new suburb of Metairie, Louisiana.
Mares's Metairie home was the site of a legendary jam-session in 1929 where Bix Beiderbecke and the other jazz playing members of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra jammed with the local New Orleans jazz musicians.
Mares also ran a restaurant in New Orleans called" The Chicago Bar- B- Q".
In the early 1930s he returned to Chicago where he opened up his" New Orleans Bar- B- Q" there.
The" P.M. New Orleans Bar- B- Q" became a gathering place for Chicago jazz musicians and home to numerous jam sessions, which Mares occasionally joined in.
Alexander Courage
Alexander Mair" Sandy" Courage Jr.( December 10, 1919
May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.
He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original" Star Trek" series.
Bobby Charles
Robert Charles Guidry (February 21, 1938 – January 14, 2010), known as Bobby Charles, was an American singer-songwriter.
Leo Adde
Leo Adde( April 21, 1904 – March 1, 1942) was an American jazz drummer.
Adde began by playing the cigar box on percussion, and played as a duo with Raymond Burke on the streets of New Orleans in the mid-1910s.
Adde joined the Halfway House Orchestra under Abbie Brunies early in the 1920s, and played in Johnny Miller's New Orleans Frolickers at the end of the decade.
Adde also recorded in the 1920s with Johnny Bayersdorffer and with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
In the 1930s Adde drummed with the Melody Masters, led by Sharkey Bonano and Louis Prima's brother Leon Prima.
He moved with the ensemble to New York City, where they sometimes performed as the New Orleans Melody Masters.
Later in the decade he recorded with the New Orleans Owls, and returned to New Orleans before the end of the 1930s.
Walking to New Orleans
"Walking to New Orleans" is a 1960 song by Bobby Charles, written for and recorded by Fats Domino.
Domino was a hero of Charles.
Domino had previously recorded the Charles tune "Before I Grow Too Old".
When Domino stopped on tour in Lafayette, Louisiana, he invited Charles into his dressing room, and regretted he did not have a copy of his new record to give to Charles, but invited Charles to come visit him in Domino's home of New Orleans.
Charles replied, "I don't have a car.
If I'd go, I'd have to walk.
"
Afterwards, the thought remained on Charles's mind, and he said he wrote the song for Domino in some 15 minutes.
After he got to New Orleans to accept Domino's invitation, Charles sang "Walking to New Orleans" for Domino.
Domino was enthusiastic about the number and made a few modifications to it, including adding a quote from his earlier hit, "Ain't That A Shame".
Dave Bartholomew made an orchestration for the backup band, and Domino with Bartholomew and band recorded it in Cosimo Matassa's studio on Rampart Street.
After the recording was made, Bartholomew decided to overdub a string section from the New Orleans Symphony.
Use of classical strings was unusual for early rock and roll.
Domino was at first somewhat surprised when Bartholomew played back the new version with strings, but warmed to the distinctive sweet melancholy sound it added.
The strings were arranged by Milton Bush, a trombonist who was the first-call string arranger at Cosimo's Studio.
Bush wrote the arrangements standing up in 10 minutes while Domino looked on.
He basically had the strings mimic the melody in the previous phrase.
When finished, Domino asked Bush how much he wanted for the arrangement.
Bush figured that $1 a minute was pretty good, so he charged Fats $10.
The song went on to sell over two million copies.
The record was a hit, released on Imperial Records, reaching #6 on the pop chart and #2 on the R&B chart.
In 2007, Neil Young covered the song on the album .
Hap Glaudi
Lloyd Alfred" Hap" Glaudi( November 7, 1912 – December 29, 1989) was lead sportscaster for New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL- TV.
He was part of a trio of colorful sportscasters in New Orleans from the beginning of the 1960s extending up until almost 2000.
The others were Wayne Mack of the New Orleans NBC affiliate WDSU- TV, and Buddy Diliberto of then New Orleans ABC affiliate WVUE- TV.
All three had distinct personas, fitting of New Orleans's unique culture, with Glaudi being known as the" Dean of New Orleans Sportscasters".
Photographs of Hap Glaudi appear at the Radio Theatre of New Orleans website.

Question: Which country the composer of song Walking To New Orleans is from?
Answer: American