Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Bing Crosby, Bix Beiderbecke - Mary (1926)

Paul Whiteman (March 28,1890 - Dec.29,1967) was an American orchestral leader.

He was born in Denver, Colorado. After a start as a classical violinist and violist, Whiteman then led a jazz-influenced dance band, which became locally popular in San Francisco, California in 1918. In 1920 he moved his band to New York City where they started making recordings for Victor Records which propelled Whiteman and his band to national prominence. Whiteman became the most popular band leader of the decade. In May 1928, he signed with Columbia Records, only to return to Victor September, 1931, where he stayed until March, 1937.

Whiteman signed Mildred Bailey in 1929 (although she didn't record with Whiteman until 1931). It has been reported in a couple of recent books that Whiteman wanted to hire black musicians back in the late 1920s, but he was talked out of it by his management and record company.

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Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 2,1903 - Oct.14,1977)

was an American popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.

One of the last multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses. Widely recognized as one of the most popular musical acts in history, Crosby is also credited as being the major inspiration for most of the male singers of the era that followed him, including Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine recognized Crosby as the person who had done the most for American G.I. morale during World War II and, during his peak years, around 1948, polls declared him the "most admired man alive," ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. Also during 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.

Crosby exerted an important influence on the development of the postwar recording industry. In 1947, he invested US$50,000 in the Ampex company, which developed North America's first commercial reel-to-reel tape recorder, and Crosby became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings on magnetic tape. He gave one of the first Ampex Model 200 recorders to his friend, musician Les Paul, which led directly to Paul's invention of multitrack recording. Along with Frank Sinatra, he was one of the principal backers behind the famous United Western Recorders studio complex in Los Angeles.

In 1962, Crosby was the first person to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Father Chuck O'Malley in the 1944 motion picture Going My Way. Crosby is one of the few people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Bing Crosby, Bix Beiderbecke - Mary (1926)

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• Paul
• Whiteman
• Bing
• Crosby
• Bix
• Beiderbecke
• 1926
• 20s
• 30s

[midiout]

Nice Lo-Fi. Sounds like it's been de-noised.

[chonches]

287 views, soo sad...

[brosro]

Nice alternative take I've heard for the first time. This record is really a "changing of the guard" in Whiteman's band. The "old guard" Henry Busse takes a beautiful muted first chorus, with Bix closing it out. With Whiteman writing in Bix on scores originally written for Busse, he felt betrayed by his long time friend and left the band in early 1928. This recording was made in Chicago's Orchestra Hall in November of 1927.

[jpstenino]

This is grand. And, thank you so very much for the text information.

[carrotjuse]

Excellent audio fidelity.

[sautee01]

Nice way to travel back to a more elegant time.