![]() Headquarters of KING Records, famous for Jazz, Blues, R&B and Country - all of which were daily fare for the city's five or six radio stations - Cincinnati was also a favorite venue for the big bands, and its downtown clubs offered plenty of swinging, live music. But the sounds of the city were the ones that eventually formed Bill's deepest musical interests. The great folk artist, John Jacob Niles, was a close family friend and frequent visitor an early influence on Bill's musical tastes. Bill's father, a talented amateur pianist, played the classics and enjoyed listening to jazz his two teenage sisters were avid collectors of the records of the big bands of the era: Benny Goodman Glenn Miller Artie Shaw Ellington Basie. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 17th 1931, Bill Ramsey grew up with the abundance of musical styles found in the "Queen City" of the thirties and forties. ![]()
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