Henry Halstead

b. 16 November 1897, d. March 1984. Generally billed as Henry Halstead And His Victor Documenting Orchestra following the procurement of their 1st recording agreement, this SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California, USA-based dance music group was inaugurated in the first 20s. Halstead’s profession as a music group leader began using a three-year stay on the St. Francis Resort in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. This group produced many broadcasts on the neighborhood KGO radio place, bringing enough notoriety for Halstead to consider the group on travels throughout the western world coastline of America so that as significantly afield as Hawaii. Nevertheless, in 1925 he made a decision to totally renew the group’s line-up, and recruited a talented group of music artists, including Ted Schilling, Glen Hopkins, Ross Dugat, Ernie Reed, Chuck Moll, Abe Maule, Hal Chanslor, Zebe Mann, Craig Leach, Phil Harris, Crimson Nichols, Dick Hart, Don Hopkins and Harold Peppie. Many of these music artists were attracted from another, today defunct regional dance music group, and Halstead relocated the complete entourage to Seattle. There he previously leased a ballroom, and primarily found himself using a growing business. However, regardless of the popularity from the orchestra’s displays there, and some produces for Victor Information, their impetus was stalled when the Seattle Union’s leader learned of 1 of their musician’s affairs along with his girl. Compelled to relocate, Halstead got them initial to Tacoma and Spokane, before arriving back SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA for shows at Tait’s Pompeiian Area. By 1926 he previously discovered them a residency on the Lafayette Resort in LA, then your Edgewater Beach Resort in Santa Monica. After a far more protracted stay on the Plantation Ballroom, the orchestra became the initial dance music group to be highlighted in a film short, Carnival Evenings In Paris. Nevertheless, Halstead’s patience using the continuous upheavals was putting on slim, and he ultimately left his profession as a music group leader to consider up a genuine property business in Phoenix, Az.