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Darling corey lonnie donegan biography
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Born Anthony James Donegan on April 29, 1931, in Glasgow, Scotland; died on November 3, 2002, in Petersborough, Cambridgeshire, England; married three times, to Sharon Donegan, Maureen Donegan, and Jill Westlake; seven children.
Addresses: Record company--Bear Family Records, P.O. Box 1154, 227 Hambergen, Germany, website: http://www.bear-family.de.
Lonnie Donegan was the undisputed king of skiffle--a jazz-tinged hybrid of American folk and blues.
Performed with acoustic guitars, banjos, a tea chest or washtub bass, and a washboard for scrubbing out the backbeat, skiffle was crude, spirited music that began at American rent parties and in English workingmen's pubs.
Like rockabilly music, its commercial life was relatively short, but the form and Donegan's recordings in particular, set the stage for the British rock 'n' roll movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The son of an Irish-born classical violinist who once worked with the Glasgow National Orchestra, Ant