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Fuller Name
- Ward Lamar
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1927-09-21
Death Date
- 2015-01-19
Has Affiliation
- Organization: New Swingle Singers
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation End: 1973
- Organization: Swingle Singers
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1959
- Organization: Double Six (Musical group)
Birth Place
- Mobile (Ala.)
Field of Activity
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Sources
- found: Johnston, B. Sonnets of desolation [SR] p1984:container (Ward Swingle, director, New Swingle Singers)
- found: Who's who in American music. Classical, 2nd ed.(Swingle, Ward Lamar; b. Sep. 21, 1927, Mobile, Ala.; composer, pianist, educator; directed Swingle Singers and New Swingle Singers)
- found: Washington post WWW site, Jan. 21, 2015(Ward Swingle; died Jan. 19 [2015] in Eastbourne, England; he was 87; the death was announced by the Swingles, which he started in the early 1960s and was long known as the Swingle Singers; a gifted tenor, Mr. Swingle also worked as a backup singer for such entertainers as Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and Blossom Dearie; in 1959, he helped found the vocal group Les Double Six; in 1973, Mr. Swingle disbanded the Swingle Singers, only to re-form it in England under various names, including Swingle II and the New Swingle Singers; stepped down in 1984; Ward Lamar Swingle was born in Mobile, Ala., on Sept. 21, 1927)
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Change Notes
- 1985-09-09: new
- 2015-01-21: revised
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