Marion McKay

b. USA. Banjo participant McKay shaped his dance music group, the Marion McKay Orchestra, in Richmond, Indiana, USA, in the first 20s. The sidemen included Ambrose Barringer, Le Roy Morris, Doc Marshall, Russell Mock, Ernie McKay, Henry Lang, George Agonost, Paul Weirick, Izzy George, Terry George, Skinny Budd, Harry Bason, Ed Johns, Jack port Tillson, Roger Beals, Clem Johnson, Crimson Ginslar, Ernie Weaver, Marlin Kiles and Eddie Web page. These musicians had been usually ordered inside a three brass, three reed, piano, bass and drum format. The presented vocalists were Jack port Tillson and Fred Stuart. Their carrying out territory covered a substantial proportion from the Midwest, especially Cincinnati and Cleveland. There have been also rarer bookings in NY. Authorized to Gennett Information, they were one of the primary bands to try and negotiate that company’s new digital recording system, situated in its Richmond studios. Nevertheless, teething troubles guaranteed that none of the recordings had been ever released. The orchestra was disbanded in the middle-30s when McKay retired as its innovator.