Johnny Carlton

b. 24 Sept 1916, d. 31 Oct 1998, LA, California, USA. Catron initial worked being a musician alongside performers such as Count number Basie and Jay McShann through the 20s and 30s in Kansas Town, Kansas, USA. After Globe Battle II he shifted to Pomona, California, and set up a Volkswagen dealership. The achievement of the business allowed him to indulge his like of music, and financing the forming of his personal dance music group. Playing mainly regional bookings at weekends, Catron could recruit a number of the leading big music group sidemen. There have been also summer time engagements at Catalina Isle. Along with his dance music group becoming increasingly well-known, Catron wear it a far more professional footing by firmly taking more than a ballroom and cafe in Glendora, California. Right here the group’s theme, ‘Like Day time’, plus additional original compositions such as for example ‘There’s A PERIOD And A LOCATION For Everything’, ‘Valerie’, ‘The Volkswagen Track Polka’ and ‘This Aged Place’, found a far more long term home. These tunes and others had been also offered on vinyl via a agreement with Nortac Information, while the music group’s radio looks included the Union Essential oil Company Display on KFI in LA, with demonstrated Catron using his engine trade contacts to good impact. Catron remained energetic in music in California lengthy after the decrease from the big music group audio and the dissolution of his personal music group.