Buddy Rogers

b. Charles Rogers, 13 August 1904, Olathe, Kansas Town, Kansas, USA, d. 21 Apr 1999, Hand Springs, California, USA. Rogers set up his California Cavaliers dance music group in NEW YORK in the past due 20s, although his primary priority continued to be a film profession that started with 1926’s Exciting Youth. Rogers shifted into talkies in well-known features with Nancy Carroll, and in the 30s utilized his pleasant performing voice in a number of film musicals. His sidemen in the California Cavaliers included Corky Cornelius, Andrew McKinney, George Macy, Tommy Reo, Tag Bennett, Jack port Henderson, Ben Freeman, Herman Stanchfield, Steve Benorick, John Nicolini, Joe Mooney, Bob Domenick, Tony Federici, Russ Isaacs, Ernie Mathias, Murray Williams and drummer Gene Krupa. Though Rogers generally handled male business lead vocals himself, Bob Hannon, Jack port Douglas, Marvel Maxwell (aka Marilyn Maxwell) and Liz Tilton had been also utilized at various moments. Rogers prided himself on getting the only music group leader in a position to play every single device in his orchestra, which became something of a celebration switch at their bookings. Recordings had been released on Vocalion Information and Victor Information, including the music group’s theme melody, ‘My Friend’. The music group continued as a dynamic device through the 30s and early 40s, including trips of England as well as the east coastline of America. Carrying out a change in path his orchestra started billing itself as ‘the newest part of golf swing’. Rogers wedded film celebrity Mary Pickford in June 1937, the culmination of an extended romance that began if they co-starred in my own Best Lady (1927), although Pickford continued to be wedded to Douglas Fairbanks until 1936. Pickford acted as party sponsor when his orchestra performed its 1st southern California times in-may 1938. Following the war, where he served like a lieutenant in the naval air flow corps, Rogers switched his back again on music group resulting in continue his performing and appearance after numerous business opportunities. Pickford passed away in 1979, and Rogers remarried and resolved in Hand Springs, from where he went the charitable Mary Pickford Basis.