Legendary Artists and Entertainers Volume 1: Their Lives and Gravesites

Joe Farrell, Joe Farley, and Lawrence Knorr have combed New York and Pennsylvania for the gravesites and biographies of some of our most interesting and accomplished authors, musicians, actors, and entertainers. Included in this volume are: Marian Anderson “A Voice Heard Once in a Hundred Years” Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” Pearl Bailey “Pearley May” Anne Bancroft “And Here’s to You Mrs. Robinson” Irving Berlin “America’s Songwriter” James Cagney “You Dirty Rat” Jim Croce “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim” Linda Darnell “Hollywood Beauty” Miles Davis “The King of Cool” Jimmy Dorsey “A Fabulous Dorsey” Frank Gorshin “What Does It All Mean?” Zane Grey “Rider of the Purple Sage” Harry Houdini “Master of Illusion” Alan King “King of Comedy” Hy Lit and Edward Sciaky “Philadelphia DJs” Jayne Mansfield “The Blond Bombshell” E.G. Marshall “Eej” Teddy Pendergrass “Life Is a Song Worth Singing” Bessie Smith “The Empress of the Blues” Ed Sullivan “The Toast of the Town” John Updike “One of America’s Best” Dave Van Ronk “The Major of MacDougal Street” John Simon Ritchie (Sid Vicious) and Nancy Laura Spungen “The Sex Pistol and the Groupie (It’s Better to Burn Out . . .) Andy Warhol “The Pope of Pop” Fred Waring and His Band the Pennsylvanians “The Man Who Taught America How To Sing”