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Ted Weems (Wilfred Theodore Wemyes) (Sept.26,1901 - May 6,1963) was a United States bandleader and musician. Born in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, Weems learned to play the violin and trombone. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he and his brother Art organized a small dance band. Going professional in 1923, Weems toured for the MCA Corporation, recording for several years on Victor Records. Somebody Stole My Gal became the band's first number 1 hit in early 1924. Weems moved to ...

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William Thomas "Billy" Murray (May 25,1877 - Aug.17,1954) was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century. While he received star billings on Vaudeville, he was best known for his prolific work in the recording studio, making records for almost every record label of the era. He was probably the best selling recording artist of the first quarter of the 20th century. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of immigrants from Ireland ...

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The Golden Gate Orchestra was a recording pseudonym for the California Ramblers. A mis-named band, most of the personnel were from Ohio. The name came from one of the venues where they had played, the Ramblers Inn in Pelham, NY. The California Ramblers, were one of the hottest dance bands of the 1920s and consistently turned out records of the highest musical quality. They were is such demand, that many labels wanted to record them, and so the Ramblers recorded under many different names ...

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Rosa Henderson (November 24, 1896 - April 6, 1968) was a jazz and blues singer, and vaudeville entertainer. Born Rosa Deschamps in Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky, she is remembered as one of the greats of the 1920s and 1930s classic blues era. Her career as an entertainer began in 1913 when she joined her uncle's circus troupe. She married Douglas "Slim" Henderson in 1918 and began travelling with his Mason-Henderson show. Her career as a musical comedian started during the early ...

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Paul Specht (March 24,1895 - April 11,1954) was an American dance bandleader popular in the 1920s. Born in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, Specht was a violinist, having been taught by his father Charles G. Specht, a violinist, organist, and bandleader in his own right. He attended Combs Conservatory in Philadelphia, and led his first band in 1916, which toured the Western United States during World War I. He signed with Columbia Records in 1922, playing both with a larger dance ensemble and ...

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Harry F. Reser (Jan.17,1896 - Sept.27,1965) was an American banjo player and bandleader. Born in Piqua, Ohio, Reser was best known as the leader of The Clicquot Club Eskimos. Reser was regarded by some as the best banjoist of the 1920s. He played with midwestern dance bands, relocating to Buffalo, New York in 1920. Arriving in Manhattan the following year, he became an in-demand session musician during the early 1920s. In 1925, he found fame as the director for NBC's Clicquot Club Eskimo ...

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British bandleader and pianist Percival Mackey (1894 - 1950) makes his first appearance in Vocalion's dance band series, with A Tiny Flat Near Soho Square. A somewhat neglected figure of the British dance band era, Mackey did much for theatre music in the UK. During his career he was the musical director for many West End shows, and was one of the first to employ jazz and dance band musicians in those shows' pit orchestras. Mackey's love of the theatre and its music is reflected in this ...

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Ruth Etting (Nov.23,1896 - Sept.24,1978) was an American singing star of the 1930s, who had over sixty hit recordings. Rising to fame in the twenties and early thirties, Ruth Etting was renowned for her great beauty, her gorgeous voice and her tragic life. She starred on Broadway, made movies in Hollywood, married a mobster, had numerous hit-records, fell in love and was known as America's Sweetheart of Song. Born in David City, Nebraska, Ruth left home at seventeen for Chicago and art ...

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Sam Lanin (Sept.4,1891 - May 5,1977) was an American jazz bandleader. Lanin's brothers, Howard and Lester, were also bandleaders, and all of them had sustained, successful careers in music. Lanin was one of ten children born to Russian-Jewish immigrants who emigrated to Philadelphia in the decade of the 1900s. Sam played clarinet and violin while young, and in 1912 he was offered a spot playing in Victor Herbert's orchestra, where he played through World War I. After the war he moved to New ...

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I don't know something about the Dave Harman Orchestra. I hope, someone knows more and let us know. Dave Harman Orchestra - Sob Sister Sadie (1925)

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