BIRTHDAYS
1905 Moses Asch
label founder (Folkways)
b. Warsaw, Poland
Moses Asch Speaks Out!:
www.radiohazak.com/Asch.html
MORE:
www.oldtimeherald.org/archive...ays.html
AND MORE:
www.folkalliance.net/cms/index.php
1895 Jesse Crawford, organ
b. Woodland, CA, IA, USA.
Biography
Jesse Crawford (b. December 2, 1895, Woodland, CA; May 28, 1962, Sherman Oaks, CA) was one of the most popular organists of the first half of the 20th century. Originally, he was a pianist in a dance band, but he changed his instrument in 1911, choosing to play organ instead. That year, he played a concert at the Spokane Gem Theater, which set him on a circuit of concerts in theaters. In 1918, he became the first organist to play Los Angeles' Grauman's Theater. Crawford continued to perform throughout the '20s, landing a regular job at New York's Paramount Theater in 1926, where he would occasionally perform organ duets with his wife Helen.
In 1925, Jesse Crawford signed a contract RCA/Victor, which resulted in several hit records -- including "Rose Marie," "Russian Lullaby," "At Dawning," "Valencia," and "Roses of Picardy" -- between 1925-27. For the rest of the '20s, he peformed a series of popular concerts and played background music for radio plays. During the '30s, he led a dance orchestra, in addition to playing his regular concerts.
Crawford continued to record and perform throughout the '40s and '50s.
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
BIO:
theatreorgans.com/southernc...rdnote.htm
BIO #2:
www.atos.org/Pages/Journ...ord_Bio.html
MORE:
theatreorgans.com/southernc...0Foort.htm
1918 Milton DeLugg, Leader
b. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Bandleader 1962 Johnny Carson's 'Tonight Show'.
Also leader on the 1950 Abe Burrows 'Almanac' show.
~Biography
Best known for his stint as bandleader for the infamous game show The Gong Show, composer and arranger Milton DeLugg was born in Los Angeles on December 2, 1918. After attending UCLA, he travelled to New York City to study under Tibor Serly; in 1938, DeLugg joined the Matty Malneck Orchestra as an accordionist, and following a stay with the Army Air Corps during World War II, he formed his own group. Freelance television and radio projects yielded themes for everything from The Fred Allen Show to What's My Line? to the Junior Miss pageant; a prolific composer, DeLugg also authored songs including "Hoop Dee Do," "The Happy Wanderer," "Just Another Polka" and "Orange Colored Sky."
In 1964, he penned the score to the cult classic Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, and following the 1966 departure of Skitch Henderson assumed bandleading duties on NBC's The Tonight Show, only to be replaced a few months later by Doc Severinsen; much longer-lived was his stay on Chuck Barris' 1970s favorite The Gong Show, where he and his group were dubbed "Milton Delugg and the Band with a Thug." In addition to composing music for a number of children's records released through RCA and Golden Books, in 1967 DeLugg also issued the solo album Accordion My Way--Ole!
~ Jason Ankeny
Space Age Pop Bio:
www.spaceagepop.com/delugg.htm
Here's a partial MP3 of his "Outer Limits" track:
www.showandtellmusic.com/mp3s/...ts.mp3
1925
Joseph P. "Joe" Derise
piano/guitar/vocals
d. July 24, 2002, Shelton, CT, U.S.A. (Cancer) Part of the vocal group Four Jacks And A Jill . Over his career he worked with Tommy Dorsey, Marcia Hillman, Milt Hinton, The Australian Jazz Quartet and Claude Thornhill Orch.
~Biography
A pianist and vocalist who recorded for Bethlehem in the '50s, then resurfaced in the late '70s and was very active during the '80s. Derise played in a bebop style, though he also recorded with a big band and even with The Australian Jazz Quartet. But most of his dates were with a small combo.
~ Ron Wynn
1906
Peter Carl Goldmark
Inventor of the LP record
b. Budapest, Hungary.
d. Dec. 7, 1977, Westchester county, NY, USA.
Peter is remembered today as an engineer who developed the first commercial color television, and the Long Playing record. However, he was also an accomplished Cellist and Pianist who loved music and hated the short playing time of 78rpm records. By slowing down the speed to 33-1/3rpm and using vinyl instead of shellac to press the disc, Goldmark was able to add grooves and quintuple the playing time. LP (Long Play) records energized the entire music industry. Not only could Classical music now be played in their entirety, but in time, even 'Iron Butterfly' had an excuse to record "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida."
INFO Please Bio:
www.infoplease.com/ce6/peop...1192.html
MORE:
www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037271
1915 Adolph Green
composer/lyricist
d. Oct. 23, 2002.
Age 87. some sources show b. 1914).
In 1960, Adolph married Phyllis Newman and the marriage resulted in two children (his son, Adam Green, daughter, Amanda Green). Over a period of more than six decades, the professional partnership of Comden and Green lasted longer than any other Broadway composing team, The pair penned more than a dozen witty and successful Broadway musicals including 'Bells Are Ringing', 'On the Town', 'On the Twentieth Century', 'Peter Pan', 'Hallelujah', 'Baby', 'Will Rogers Follies' and others. They also co-wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplays for 'It's Always Fair Weather', 'The Band Wagon and Singin' in the Rain', as well as 'Good News', 'The Barkleys of Broadway', 'Auntie Mame', 'What a Way to Go', 'On the Town', 'Bells Are Ringing' and others. The team also worked with other composers including Cy Coleman, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, Morton Gould and Andre Previn. Among their best-known songs are "The Party's Over," "Make Someone Happy," "Just in Time," "Never Never Land," "New York, New York (It's a Helluva Town)," and "I Never Met a Man I Didn't Like."
PBS Bio:
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/s...io_green.html
1890
Fate Marable
Piano/Leader
b. Paduca, KY, USA.
d. Jan. 16, 1947.
One of the Original New Orleans Black Bands. Often worked on the old Sternwheeler Mississippi Riverboats.
~Biography
A legendary name in early jazz, Fate Marable led jazz bands on riverboats for decades. He first played in public when he was nine and as early as 1907, Marable was playing piano and calliope aboard a Mississippi steamship. He formed the Kentucky Jazz Band in 1917 and among his many sidemen during the next 20 years were Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Baby Dodds, Pops Foster, Zutty Singleton, Henry "Red" Allen, Gene Sedric, Jimmy Blanton and Earl Bostic. In the 1930s, Marable sometimes co-led bands with Charlie Creath and, although based in St. Louis, he constantly recruited some of the best New Orleans jazzmen for his groups. In 1940, a badly infected finger caused him to retire for a long period. Marable was active again by the mid-'40s, playing piano in St. Louis-area clubs before dying from pneumonia. Unfortunately, the only recordings of Marable's band, Frankie and Johnny and Pianoflage from 1924, are quite poor musically and technically, so the power and beauty of his bands are lost to history.
~ Scott Yanow
RH Jazz Bio:
www.redhotjazz.com/fatem.html
MORE:
nfo.net/usa/JO1.html#FMO
WIKI BIO:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_Marable
“Frankie And Johnny”, 3-16-1924, (Sheilds / Leighton) - Fate Marable’s Society Syncopators
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/mi...ankie.ram
1896 Mike Mosiello
Trumpet/cornet/leader
b. Frasso Telesino, Italy
d. June, 3, 1953, Asbury Park, NJ, USA.
né: Michael Angelo Mosiello.
1907
Paul Pendarvis, Leader
d. 1987
[ Paul Pendarvis Orch ]
Theme: "My Sweetheart"
Pendarvis was born in Oklahoma. but moved to California for his under-graduate college (UCLA) years. During his stay in California, he had some minor roles in motion pictures.
He moved to Kansas City, KS, and it was here, in the early thirties, that Paul started his band. In addition to club and hotel dates, Paul also had his own radio show. Pendarvis was a violinist. He always started his radio program with the announcement: "When you here the violin, - it's Paul Pendarvis", followed by the theme song.
Paul found some success in Kansas City, and subsequently the band was booked into The Congress Hotel in Chicago. During these years, the band recorded for Columbia Records. Paul gave up the band in the early forties to become musical director of a radio station.
1914 Edward Ernest "Eddie" Sauter
Arranger/Composer/Leader (Sauter/Finegan Band)
b. New York, NY (Brooklyn), USA. d. April 21, 1981, Nyack, NY, USA.
Studied Trumpet and drums. Matriculated Columbia Univ.(NY) playing on Cruise ships during Summers vacations. Studied theory at Juilliard. Played with Archie Bleyer orch 1932. 1935-39 arranging for Red Norvo band. 1939 wrote for Benny Goodman ("Benny Rides Again") and in 1940 wrote for Artie Shaw band ('The Maid With The Flaccid Air'). These were his best 'Jazz' years with his writing showing good techical innovation while still 'swinging'. Also wrote for Tommy Dorsey, Ray McKinley and Woody Herman bands. In 1952, he and Bill Finegan formed a recording only orch., which later was used for Club/TV dates too. They gave up Jazz improv. and turned to novel instrumental effects. Disbanded May 1957. Sauter took job at Sudwestfunk radio in Baden Baden, Germany. Back to USA in 1959, where he and Bill Finegan writing Radio Commercials.
1902 Homer Smith, vocals
b. Florence, AL, IA, USA.
Member: 'The Southernaires '
1914
"Pops" Staples, guitar
b. Winona, MS, IA, USA.
Member: 'The Staple Singers'
MORE:
www.jellyroll.com/01/pops.html
1917
Sylvia Syms, vocal
d. May 10, 1992
~Biography
Vocalist and jazz singer, Sylvia Syms was known as the "world's greatest saloon singer" by Frank Sinatra. She sang everything from cabaret music to light jazz. Her claim to fame is her versatility in singing, making every song original in its style and sound.
Sylvia Syms was born in New York City. Her interest in music developed at an early age, her first performance being in front of family and friends. She began her professional singing career in nightclubs where she met such singing legends as Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. Her career quickly took off and she released albums on the DRG label, the Bainbridge label and several other independent labels. She brought a new sound to jazz with such hits as "Wild Is the Wind" and "Cuando Te Fuiste De Mi."
Aside from her jazz performances she has released several pre-rock songs and albums. On the Prestige label she released the albums Sylvia Is! and For Once In My Life. She was accompanied by Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, Bucky Pizzarelli, Willie Rodriguez, Sam Bruno and Johnny "Hammond" Smith. On these albums she recorded popular favorites as well as fresh releases. The favorites included "If You Could See Me Now," "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me," "Vaya Con Dios," "Yesterday" and "For Once In My Life." Sylvia Syms had a talented gift in that she took early rock songs and made them brand new as if they were being sung for the first time. This ability made her well-known in the music industry.
Along with upbeat rock songs, Sylvia Syms also recorded a CD full of love songs. The album, titled Sylvia Syms Sings/Songs of Love, includes such popular sentimentals as "Isn't It Romantic," "What's the Use of Won'drin," "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye" and "Let Me Love You."
Sylvia Syms, the nightclub singer should not be confused with the British film and television actress, Sylvia Syms. Although the two both died in 1992, British actress Sylvia Syms was only 58 when she died, whereas Sylvia Syms the singer died at the age of 79 in New York City.
During her long career, Sylvia Syms recorded more than 15 albums in several different genres. Her musical contribution is that of singing several different styles of music with one voice. Confused throughout her life as also being a British actress, Sylvia Syms died with the recognition of being a talented jazz singer on May 10, 1992.
~ Kim Summers
Sylvia Syms Web-Site:
www.sylviasyms.co.uk/
MORE:
www.screenonline.org.uk/people...517020/
1916 Charlie Ventura, Tenor Sax
b. Philadelphia, PA, USA. d.1992.
The 4th of 13 children. Started on C-Melody sax in 1931, but in later years also played Soprano, Alto, Baritone and Bass sax, with the Tenor Sax as his main instrument. Worked in Father's hat factory. In 1940-2 while working in Navy shipyard during the day, he frequently 'jammed at night with such men as Gillespie, DeFranco, Bill Harris and Roy 'Little Jazz' Eldridge.Between '42-3 and again '44-6 tenor sax with Krupa; '43-4 with Teddy Powell's band; '46-7 led his own big band; and from '47-9 led his own small 'Bop' combos. Led own big band '50, then form 'Dec '50 to '54 run his own nightclub, The Open House' (in Philadelphia). Worked with Krupa trio Jan-June 1952, and toured Japan in late '50s with Krupa, after which he led small groups in various Las Vegas NV clubs. Won 1946 Esquire New Star Award; 1945 Down Beat Poll Award for best Tenor Sax and in '49 Down Beat Poll award for best small combo.
SOLID! Bio:
www.parabrisas.com/d_venturac.php
Notable Events
on this date include:
1937.
Joe Smith, trumpet
died in New York, NY, USA.
Age: 35. Played with Bessie Smith
1949.
Boogie Woogie pianist Albert Ammons
died in Chicago, IL, USA. Age: 42.
1955.
Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport, piano
died in Cleveland, OH, USA. Age: 61
Songs Recorded/Released
on this date include:
1922 “Ivy (Cling To Me)”
(Jones / Johnson / Rogers)
- The Southland Six
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/om5/ivy2.ram
1922 “Runnin' Wild”
(Joe Grey / A. Harrington Gibbs)
- The Southland Six
1923 “That Twa-Twa Tune”, (Aaron C. Thompson) - Esther Bigeou
1925 “I Love My Baby (My Baby Loves Me)”, Vocal Chorus Arthur Fields, (Green / Warren) - Bailey's Lucky Seven
1925 “Carolina Stomp”, (Bloom) - Pinkie's Birmingham Five
1925 “Headin' For Louisville”, (De Sylva / Meyer) - Pinkie's Birmingham Five
1926 “Honey Do”
(Donaldson)
- Paul Ash and his Orchestra
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/ash/honeydo.ram
1926 “Sidewalk Blues”, (Walter Melrose / Jelly Roll Morton ) - Cook and his Dreamland Orchestra
1929 “Futuristic Blues”, (Wilton Crawley ) - Wilton Crawley and his Orchestra
1929 “Keep Your Business To Yourself
(Wilton Crawley )
- Wilton Crawley and his Orchestra
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/crawley/xxx.ram
1929 “Harmonica Harry”, (Phil Baxter) - Ted Weems and his Orchestra
1930 “Keep A Song In Your Soul”, - Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
1930 “What Good I'm I Without You?”, - Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
1932 “Fit As A Fiddle
(Freed / Hoffman / Goodheart)
- Annette Hanshaw
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/hanshaw/fit.ram
1935 “I Dream Too Much”, (From RKO film "I Dream Too Much"),
Vocal refrain by Bob Lawrence, (Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern)
- Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra
1935 “I'm the Echo (You're The Song I Sing)
(From RKO film "I Dream Too Much"), Vocal refrain by the King's Men
(Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern) - Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra
1936 Stompin' at the Savoy, - Benny Goodman Orch.
1943 I'll Be Home For Christmas, - Bing Crosby
LYRICS:
FIT AS A FIDDLE Lyrics
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love.
I can jump over the moon up above.
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love!
I haven't a worry, I haven't a care,
I feel like a feather that's floating on air,
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love!
Soon all the church bells will be ringing
And I'll march with Ma and Pa.
All the church bells will be ringing,
With a hey naughty-knotty and a hotcha-cha darling.
Hi, diddle-diddle, my baby's OK,
Ask me a riddle, I'm waiting to say
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love!
Soon all the church bells will be ringing
And I'll march with Ma and Pa.
All the church bells will be ringing,
With a hey naughty-knotty and a hotcha-cha darling.
Hi, diddle-diddle, my baby's OK,
Ask me a riddle, I'm waiting to say
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love!
Stompin at The Savoy
(1934) benny goodman, chick webb, edgar sampson, andy razaf
Savoy, the home of sweet romance,
Savoy, it wins you with a glance,
Savoy, gives happy feet a chance to dance.
Your old form just like a clinging vine,
Your lips so warm and sweet as wine,
Your cheek so soft and close to mine, divine.
How my heart is singing,
While the band is swinging,
Im never tired of romping,
And stomping with you at the savoy.
What joy - a perfect holiday,
Savoy, where we can glide and sway,
Savoy, let me stomp away with you;
The home of sweet romance,
It wins you at a glance,
Gives happy feet a chance to dance.
Just like a clinging vine,
So soft and sweet as wine,
So soft and close to mine, divine.
How my heart is singing,
While the band is swinging,
Im never, never, never tired of romping,
And stomping with you at the savoy.
What joy - a perfect holiday,
Savoy, where we can glide and sway,
Savoy, let me stomp away with you;
1905 Moses Asch
label founder (Folkways)
b. Warsaw, Poland
Moses Asch Speaks Out!:
www.radiohazak.com/Asch.html
MORE:
www.oldtimeherald.org/archive...ays.html
AND MORE:
www.folkalliance.net/cms/index.php
1895 Jesse Crawford, organ
b. Woodland, CA, IA, USA.
Biography
Jesse Crawford (b. December 2, 1895, Woodland, CA; May 28, 1962, Sherman Oaks, CA) was one of the most popular organists of the first half of the 20th century. Originally, he was a pianist in a dance band, but he changed his instrument in 1911, choosing to play organ instead. That year, he played a concert at the Spokane Gem Theater, which set him on a circuit of concerts in theaters. In 1918, he became the first organist to play Los Angeles' Grauman's Theater. Crawford continued to perform throughout the '20s, landing a regular job at New York's Paramount Theater in 1926, where he would occasionally perform organ duets with his wife Helen.
In 1925, Jesse Crawford signed a contract RCA/Victor, which resulted in several hit records -- including "Rose Marie," "Russian Lullaby," "At Dawning," "Valencia," and "Roses of Picardy" -- between 1925-27. For the rest of the '20s, he peformed a series of popular concerts and played background music for radio plays. During the '30s, he led a dance orchestra, in addition to playing his regular concerts.
Crawford continued to record and perform throughout the '40s and '50s.
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
BIO:
theatreorgans.com/southernc...rdnote.htm
BIO #2:
www.atos.org/Pages/Journ...ord_Bio.html
MORE:
theatreorgans.com/southernc...0Foort.htm
1918 Milton DeLugg, Leader
b. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Bandleader 1962 Johnny Carson's 'Tonight Show'.
Also leader on the 1950 Abe Burrows 'Almanac' show.
~Biography
Best known for his stint as bandleader for the infamous game show The Gong Show, composer and arranger Milton DeLugg was born in Los Angeles on December 2, 1918. After attending UCLA, he travelled to New York City to study under Tibor Serly; in 1938, DeLugg joined the Matty Malneck Orchestra as an accordionist, and following a stay with the Army Air Corps during World War II, he formed his own group. Freelance television and radio projects yielded themes for everything from The Fred Allen Show to What's My Line? to the Junior Miss pageant; a prolific composer, DeLugg also authored songs including "Hoop Dee Do," "The Happy Wanderer," "Just Another Polka" and "Orange Colored Sky."
In 1964, he penned the score to the cult classic Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, and following the 1966 departure of Skitch Henderson assumed bandleading duties on NBC's The Tonight Show, only to be replaced a few months later by Doc Severinsen; much longer-lived was his stay on Chuck Barris' 1970s favorite The Gong Show, where he and his group were dubbed "Milton Delugg and the Band with a Thug." In addition to composing music for a number of children's records released through RCA and Golden Books, in 1967 DeLugg also issued the solo album Accordion My Way--Ole!
~ Jason Ankeny
Space Age Pop Bio:
www.spaceagepop.com/delugg.htm
Here's a partial MP3 of his "Outer Limits" track:
www.showandtellmusic.com/mp3s/...ts.mp3
1925
Joseph P. "Joe" Derise
piano/guitar/vocals
d. July 24, 2002, Shelton, CT, U.S.A. (Cancer) Part of the vocal group Four Jacks And A Jill . Over his career he worked with Tommy Dorsey, Marcia Hillman, Milt Hinton, The Australian Jazz Quartet and Claude Thornhill Orch.
~Biography
A pianist and vocalist who recorded for Bethlehem in the '50s, then resurfaced in the late '70s and was very active during the '80s. Derise played in a bebop style, though he also recorded with a big band and even with The Australian Jazz Quartet. But most of his dates were with a small combo.
~ Ron Wynn
1906
Peter Carl Goldmark
Inventor of the LP record
b. Budapest, Hungary.
d. Dec. 7, 1977, Westchester county, NY, USA.
Peter is remembered today as an engineer who developed the first commercial color television, and the Long Playing record. However, he was also an accomplished Cellist and Pianist who loved music and hated the short playing time of 78rpm records. By slowing down the speed to 33-1/3rpm and using vinyl instead of shellac to press the disc, Goldmark was able to add grooves and quintuple the playing time. LP (Long Play) records energized the entire music industry. Not only could Classical music now be played in their entirety, but in time, even 'Iron Butterfly' had an excuse to record "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida."
INFO Please Bio:
www.infoplease.com/ce6/peop...1192.html
MORE:
www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037271
1915 Adolph Green
composer/lyricist
d. Oct. 23, 2002.
Age 87. some sources show b. 1914).
In 1960, Adolph married Phyllis Newman and the marriage resulted in two children (his son, Adam Green, daughter, Amanda Green). Over a period of more than six decades, the professional partnership of Comden and Green lasted longer than any other Broadway composing team, The pair penned more than a dozen witty and successful Broadway musicals including 'Bells Are Ringing', 'On the Town', 'On the Twentieth Century', 'Peter Pan', 'Hallelujah', 'Baby', 'Will Rogers Follies' and others. They also co-wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplays for 'It's Always Fair Weather', 'The Band Wagon and Singin' in the Rain', as well as 'Good News', 'The Barkleys of Broadway', 'Auntie Mame', 'What a Way to Go', 'On the Town', 'Bells Are Ringing' and others. The team also worked with other composers including Cy Coleman, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, Morton Gould and Andre Previn. Among their best-known songs are "The Party's Over," "Make Someone Happy," "Just in Time," "Never Never Land," "New York, New York (It's a Helluva Town)," and "I Never Met a Man I Didn't Like."
PBS Bio:
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/s...io_green.html
1890
Fate Marable
Piano/Leader
b. Paduca, KY, USA.
d. Jan. 16, 1947.
One of the Original New Orleans Black Bands. Often worked on the old Sternwheeler Mississippi Riverboats.
~Biography
A legendary name in early jazz, Fate Marable led jazz bands on riverboats for decades. He first played in public when he was nine and as early as 1907, Marable was playing piano and calliope aboard a Mississippi steamship. He formed the Kentucky Jazz Band in 1917 and among his many sidemen during the next 20 years were Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Baby Dodds, Pops Foster, Zutty Singleton, Henry "Red" Allen, Gene Sedric, Jimmy Blanton and Earl Bostic. In the 1930s, Marable sometimes co-led bands with Charlie Creath and, although based in St. Louis, he constantly recruited some of the best New Orleans jazzmen for his groups. In 1940, a badly infected finger caused him to retire for a long period. Marable was active again by the mid-'40s, playing piano in St. Louis-area clubs before dying from pneumonia. Unfortunately, the only recordings of Marable's band, Frankie and Johnny and Pianoflage from 1924, are quite poor musically and technically, so the power and beauty of his bands are lost to history.
~ Scott Yanow
RH Jazz Bio:
www.redhotjazz.com/fatem.html
MORE:
nfo.net/usa/JO1.html#FMO
WIKI BIO:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_Marable
“Frankie And Johnny”, 3-16-1924, (Sheilds / Leighton) - Fate Marable’s Society Syncopators
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/mi...ankie.ram
1896 Mike Mosiello
Trumpet/cornet/leader
b. Frasso Telesino, Italy
d. June, 3, 1953, Asbury Park, NJ, USA.
né: Michael Angelo Mosiello.
1907
Paul Pendarvis, Leader
d. 1987
[ Paul Pendarvis Orch ]
Theme: "My Sweetheart"
Pendarvis was born in Oklahoma. but moved to California for his under-graduate college (UCLA) years. During his stay in California, he had some minor roles in motion pictures.
He moved to Kansas City, KS, and it was here, in the early thirties, that Paul started his band. In addition to club and hotel dates, Paul also had his own radio show. Pendarvis was a violinist. He always started his radio program with the announcement: "When you here the violin, - it's Paul Pendarvis", followed by the theme song.
Paul found some success in Kansas City, and subsequently the band was booked into The Congress Hotel in Chicago. During these years, the band recorded for Columbia Records. Paul gave up the band in the early forties to become musical director of a radio station.
1914 Edward Ernest "Eddie" Sauter
Arranger/Composer/Leader (Sauter/Finegan Band)
b. New York, NY (Brooklyn), USA. d. April 21, 1981, Nyack, NY, USA.
Studied Trumpet and drums. Matriculated Columbia Univ.(NY) playing on Cruise ships during Summers vacations. Studied theory at Juilliard. Played with Archie Bleyer orch 1932. 1935-39 arranging for Red Norvo band. 1939 wrote for Benny Goodman ("Benny Rides Again") and in 1940 wrote for Artie Shaw band ('The Maid With The Flaccid Air'). These were his best 'Jazz' years with his writing showing good techical innovation while still 'swinging'. Also wrote for Tommy Dorsey, Ray McKinley and Woody Herman bands. In 1952, he and Bill Finegan formed a recording only orch., which later was used for Club/TV dates too. They gave up Jazz improv. and turned to novel instrumental effects. Disbanded May 1957. Sauter took job at Sudwestfunk radio in Baden Baden, Germany. Back to USA in 1959, where he and Bill Finegan writing Radio Commercials.
1902 Homer Smith, vocals
b. Florence, AL, IA, USA.
Member: 'The Southernaires '
1914
"Pops" Staples, guitar
b. Winona, MS, IA, USA.
Member: 'The Staple Singers'
MORE:
www.jellyroll.com/01/pops.html
1917
Sylvia Syms, vocal
d. May 10, 1992
~Biography
Vocalist and jazz singer, Sylvia Syms was known as the "world's greatest saloon singer" by Frank Sinatra. She sang everything from cabaret music to light jazz. Her claim to fame is her versatility in singing, making every song original in its style and sound.
Sylvia Syms was born in New York City. Her interest in music developed at an early age, her first performance being in front of family and friends. She began her professional singing career in nightclubs where she met such singing legends as Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. Her career quickly took off and she released albums on the DRG label, the Bainbridge label and several other independent labels. She brought a new sound to jazz with such hits as "Wild Is the Wind" and "Cuando Te Fuiste De Mi."
Aside from her jazz performances she has released several pre-rock songs and albums. On the Prestige label she released the albums Sylvia Is! and For Once In My Life. She was accompanied by Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, Bucky Pizzarelli, Willie Rodriguez, Sam Bruno and Johnny "Hammond" Smith. On these albums she recorded popular favorites as well as fresh releases. The favorites included "If You Could See Me Now," "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me," "Vaya Con Dios," "Yesterday" and "For Once In My Life." Sylvia Syms had a talented gift in that she took early rock songs and made them brand new as if they were being sung for the first time. This ability made her well-known in the music industry.
Along with upbeat rock songs, Sylvia Syms also recorded a CD full of love songs. The album, titled Sylvia Syms Sings/Songs of Love, includes such popular sentimentals as "Isn't It Romantic," "What's the Use of Won'drin," "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye" and "Let Me Love You."
Sylvia Syms, the nightclub singer should not be confused with the British film and television actress, Sylvia Syms. Although the two both died in 1992, British actress Sylvia Syms was only 58 when she died, whereas Sylvia Syms the singer died at the age of 79 in New York City.
During her long career, Sylvia Syms recorded more than 15 albums in several different genres. Her musical contribution is that of singing several different styles of music with one voice. Confused throughout her life as also being a British actress, Sylvia Syms died with the recognition of being a talented jazz singer on May 10, 1992.
~ Kim Summers
Sylvia Syms Web-Site:
www.sylviasyms.co.uk/
MORE:
www.screenonline.org.uk/people...517020/
1916 Charlie Ventura, Tenor Sax
b. Philadelphia, PA, USA. d.1992.
The 4th of 13 children. Started on C-Melody sax in 1931, but in later years also played Soprano, Alto, Baritone and Bass sax, with the Tenor Sax as his main instrument. Worked in Father's hat factory. In 1940-2 while working in Navy shipyard during the day, he frequently 'jammed at night with such men as Gillespie, DeFranco, Bill Harris and Roy 'Little Jazz' Eldridge.Between '42-3 and again '44-6 tenor sax with Krupa; '43-4 with Teddy Powell's band; '46-7 led his own big band; and from '47-9 led his own small 'Bop' combos. Led own big band '50, then form 'Dec '50 to '54 run his own nightclub, The Open House' (in Philadelphia). Worked with Krupa trio Jan-June 1952, and toured Japan in late '50s with Krupa, after which he led small groups in various Las Vegas NV clubs. Won 1946 Esquire New Star Award; 1945 Down Beat Poll Award for best Tenor Sax and in '49 Down Beat Poll award for best small combo.
SOLID! Bio:
www.parabrisas.com/d_venturac.php
Notable Events
on this date include:
1937.
Joe Smith, trumpet
died in New York, NY, USA.
Age: 35. Played with Bessie Smith
1949.
Boogie Woogie pianist Albert Ammons
died in Chicago, IL, USA. Age: 42.
1955.
Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport, piano
died in Cleveland, OH, USA. Age: 61
Songs Recorded/Released
on this date include:
1922 “Ivy (Cling To Me)”
(Jones / Johnson / Rogers)
- The Southland Six
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/om5/ivy2.ram
1922 “Runnin' Wild”
(Joe Grey / A. Harrington Gibbs)
- The Southland Six
1923 “That Twa-Twa Tune”, (Aaron C. Thompson) - Esther Bigeou
1925 “I Love My Baby (My Baby Loves Me)”, Vocal Chorus Arthur Fields, (Green / Warren) - Bailey's Lucky Seven
1925 “Carolina Stomp”, (Bloom) - Pinkie's Birmingham Five
1925 “Headin' For Louisville”, (De Sylva / Meyer) - Pinkie's Birmingham Five
1926 “Honey Do”
(Donaldson)
- Paul Ash and his Orchestra
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/ash/honeydo.ram
1926 “Sidewalk Blues”, (Walter Melrose / Jelly Roll Morton ) - Cook and his Dreamland Orchestra
1929 “Futuristic Blues”, (Wilton Crawley ) - Wilton Crawley and his Orchestra
1929 “Keep Your Business To Yourself
(Wilton Crawley )
- Wilton Crawley and his Orchestra
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/crawley/xxx.ram
1929 “Harmonica Harry”, (Phil Baxter) - Ted Weems and his Orchestra
1930 “Keep A Song In Your Soul”, - Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
1930 “What Good I'm I Without You?”, - Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
1932 “Fit As A Fiddle
(Freed / Hoffman / Goodheart)
- Annette Hanshaw
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/hanshaw/fit.ram
1935 “I Dream Too Much”, (From RKO film "I Dream Too Much"),
Vocal refrain by Bob Lawrence, (Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern)
- Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra
1935 “I'm the Echo (You're The Song I Sing)
(From RKO film "I Dream Too Much"), Vocal refrain by the King's Men
(Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern) - Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra
1936 Stompin' at the Savoy, - Benny Goodman Orch.
1943 I'll Be Home For Christmas, - Bing Crosby
LYRICS:
FIT AS A FIDDLE Lyrics
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love.
I can jump over the moon up above.
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love!
I haven't a worry, I haven't a care,
I feel like a feather that's floating on air,
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love!
Soon all the church bells will be ringing
And I'll march with Ma and Pa.
All the church bells will be ringing,
With a hey naughty-knotty and a hotcha-cha darling.
Hi, diddle-diddle, my baby's OK,
Ask me a riddle, I'm waiting to say
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love!
Soon all the church bells will be ringing
And I'll march with Ma and Pa.
All the church bells will be ringing,
With a hey naughty-knotty and a hotcha-cha darling.
Hi, diddle-diddle, my baby's OK,
Ask me a riddle, I'm waiting to say
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love!
Stompin at The Savoy
(1934) benny goodman, chick webb, edgar sampson, andy razaf
Savoy, the home of sweet romance,
Savoy, it wins you with a glance,
Savoy, gives happy feet a chance to dance.
Your old form just like a clinging vine,
Your lips so warm and sweet as wine,
Your cheek so soft and close to mine, divine.
How my heart is singing,
While the band is swinging,
Im never tired of romping,
And stomping with you at the savoy.
What joy - a perfect holiday,
Savoy, where we can glide and sway,
Savoy, let me stomp away with you;
The home of sweet romance,
It wins you at a glance,
Gives happy feet a chance to dance.
Just like a clinging vine,
So soft and sweet as wine,
So soft and close to mine, divine.
How my heart is singing,
While the band is swinging,
Im never, never, never tired of romping,
And stomping with you at the savoy.
What joy - a perfect holiday,
Savoy, where we can glide and sway,
Savoy, let me stomp away with you;
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