Ray Herbeck

b. 27 November 1910, LA, California, USA, d. 17 January 1989, Phoenix, Az, USA. Shaped in LA, California, USA, in 1935, the Ray Herbeck Orchestra shortly relocated to Chicago to go after the profitable Midwest one-nighter circuit. Making use of their theme track, ‘Love’, Herbeck’s was probably one of the most commercially orientated orchestras of your day. Having previously caused Leighton Noble, Herbeck recruited music artists George Vehicle, Whitney Boyd, George Winslow, Benny Stabler, Bob McReynolds, Jay Stanley, Wayne Baker, Jim Hefit, Bunny Rang, Artwork Skolnick, Louis Mathematics, Tom Clark, Al Ciola, Chi Chi Crozza, Bob Hartzell and Leo Benson, alongside vocalists Betty Benson, Hal Munbar, Kirby Brooks, Ray Olson, Lorraine Benson, Roy Cordell and Irene Wilson. Herbeck later on wedded his vocalist Lorraine Benson (b. 19 Apr 1920, Pocatello, Idaho, USA, d. 10 August 1996, San Dimas, California, USA). Having a assisting label of ‘Ray Herbeck And His Music With Love’, they provided a steady blast of sentimental figures cultivated to the precise requirements of decrease dancing, including tunes such as for example ‘Period Stood Still’. The 40s noticed the band consider engagements at popular hotels like the Peabody, New Yorker, Muehlbach and Dark brown Palace, and there have been few main ballrooms who didn’t book the music group during their considerable trips. With recordings released by Vocalion Documents, Columbia Documents and OKeh Documents among numerous others, additional exposure showed up during World Battle II with Herbeck’s strap producing over 300 USO camp display appearances to amuse the forces. In addition they appeared many times on Coca Cola’s Limelight Bands radio display during this time period. After the battle Herbeck came back to California to try out a 12 months’s residency in the Riverside Resort in Reno, after that two years on the Last Frontier in NEVADA. But by the first 50s he previously abandoned music to focus on property businesses in California and Phoenix.