Tag Archives: 1920s – 1940s

Phil Spitalny is one particular popular bandleaders from the 1920s and ’30s whose popularity didn’t survive him. Delivered in Russia, he was taken to america as a youngster, and by the ’20s, was fronting his very own music group. Among his various other successful records through the ’20s had been …

Willie Bryant was significant to music twice in his profession, as the first choice of the talented big music group during 1935-38 so that as a favorite MC and disk jockey in the 1950’s. He was raised in Chicago and attempted unsuccessfully to understand the trumpet. Bryant started his profession …

From your mid-’20s through the ’40s, composer, vocalist, and pianist Harry Barris recorded with Paul Whiteman, Bix Beiderbecke, Bing Crosby, and Duke Ellington and wrote pop standards such as for example “I Surrender Dear.” Created in NEW YORK in 1905, Barris grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he became a …

b. 18 March 1893, USA, d. 18 March 1971, Paramus, NJ, USA. Olsen began his initial dance music group in Portland, Oregon, USA, in 1917. A six-piece group, this early combo included Wilbur Johnson, who in those days travelled beneath the billing ‘the globe’s just mellophone soloist’, violinist Herman Kanin, …

A drifter and itinerant musician, Byrd Moore was created (as William B. Moore) in 1899 in Blackwater, VA, although nothing at all about Moore’s lifestyle is certain aside from the music he produced. A passable guitarist and vocalist, he drifted through Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee the majority of his lifestyle, …

The mom of American soprano Rosa Ponselle (born Ponzillo) was her first voice teacher; afterwards she examined with Anna Ryan. As an adolescent, she teamed with her sister Carmela to create a vaudeville action which included traditional aswell as popular music. In 1918, she found the interest of Giulio Gatti-Casazzi, …

Drummer and bandleader Anton Lada’s 1918 recordings using the Louisiana Five were among the 1st commercial produces of music regarded as jazz. Lada experienced also drummed within an early edition of the initial Dixieland Jass Music group, almost four years before it became the initial combo in jazz documenting history …

b. Ernani Bernardi, 29 Oct 1911, Regular, Illinois, USA, d. 5 January 2006, LA, California, USA. Playing primarily alto saxophone, Bernardi became a specialist musician in the past due 20s. He caused early swing period bands, like the Casa Loma Orchestra which led by Joe Haymes. This music group produced …

Between 1929 and 1931, the Rev. Emmett Dickinson documented over 20 sermons, mainly for the Paramount label, and even though little else is well known of his existence, these recordings provide a remarkable look into probably one of the most interesting and elusive numbers of early competition recording background. Dickinson’s …

Kay Kyser couldn’t browse an email of music, and spent almost as enough time doing humor as music on radio. But also for over 15 years, from 1933 before end from the 1940s, he was perhaps one of the most well-known bandleaders and music personalities in the us, and happy …