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Shep Fields (September 12, 1910 – February 23, 1981) was the band leader for "Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm". Portal:Currentevents September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ...
1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
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He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and his mother's maiden name was Sowalski. He played the clarinet and tenor sax in bands during college. By 1933 he led a band that played at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel. In 1936 he was booked at Chicago's Palmer House, and the concert was broadcast on radio. A contest was held in Chicago for fans to suggest a new name for his band. The word "rippling" was suggested in more than one entry, and Fields came up with "Rippling Rhythm". When he was at a soda shop counter, his wife was blowing bubbles into her soda through a straw and that sound became his trademark that opened each of his shows. In 1936 he received a recording contract with the RCA's Bluebird label. His hits included: Did I Remember?, Cathedral in the Pines and Thanks for the Memory. In 1937 Fields started a radio show called The "Rippling Rhythm Revue" with Bob Hope as the announcer. In 1938 he was in his first motion picture, The Big Broadcast of 1938. The group disbanded in 1953, and he moved to Houston, Texas where he worked as a disc jockey. He later started a talent agency in Los Angeles, and died in 1981 in Los Angeles. For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ...
Two soprano clarinets: a Bâ™ clarinet (left) and an A clarinet (right, with no mouthpiece). ...
The tenor saxophone is one of the larger members of the saxophone family invented by Adolphe Sax. ...
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Thanks For the Memory was a song in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938. ...
Bob Hope KBE, KCSG, (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), born Leslie Townes Hope, was a famous British-born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel. ...
The Big Broadcast of 1938 was the last in a series of movies that were variety anthologies--vaudeville on film, in a sense. ...
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Band - Hal Derwin, vocals 1940
- Larry Neill, vocals 1940
- Dorothy Allen, vocals 1940
- Ken Curtis, vocals
- The Three Beaus and a Peep, vocals circa 1947-1948
- Bob Johnstone, singer circa 1947-1948
- Toni Arden, singer, circa 1945
- Carl Frederick Tandberg (1910-1988), bass fiddle, circa 1940
- Lou Halmy, trumpet, circa 1935
- Sid Caesar, saxophone, circa 1940
[edit] Ken Curtis (born July 2, 1916; died April 29, 1991), Singer-Actor, best known as Festus of Gunsmoke fame. ...
Toni Arden was an American traditional pop music singer. ...
Trumpeter redirects to here. ...
Sid Caesar (born Isaac Sidney Caesar on September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows. ...
Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ...
Recordings - That Old Feeling
- Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm, 1940, Volumes 1 and 2
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Live broadcasts [edit] New Rochelle City Hall New Roc City New Rochelle is a city in Westchester County in the US state of New York, 16 miles (26 km) from Grand Central Terminal in New York City. ...
May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ...
1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ...
March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ...
1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
Toni Arden was an American traditional pop music singer. ...
External links - Findagrave: Shep Fields
- Radio Archives: Shep Fields
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References in periodicals - Washington Post; February 7, 1937 "Shep Fields in Town Wednesday for Dance."
- Washington Post; May 8, 1937 "'Wings of the Morning,' in Technicolor, And Shep Fields Share Honors at Earle. Racing Picture and Ace Band Divide Top Spots on Bill of General Appeal."
- Washington Post; January 17, 1939 "Los Angeles, January 16, 1939 (United Press) Mrs. Myra Wallace, wife of a music publisher, learned tonight the $10,000 banknote which she tossed to Shep Fields, orchestra leader, for playing one her favorite numbers might be legal -- not stage money as she had thought."
- Time (magazine); November 4, 1941 "On his 127th birthday, a dance program was dedicated to the late Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone and thereby the unwitting father of the modern dance band. Dedicator was Bandleader Shep Fields, who lately gave up his trade-mark "Rippling Rhythm," threw out his brass, concentrated on nine saxophones."
- Washington Post; July 12, 1957 "Shep Fields admits that his wife, Evelyn, was responsible for the bubbling water through a straw sound that has identified his music for a score of years."
- New York Times; February 24, 1981 "Shep Fields, Leader Of Big Band Known For Rippling Rhythm. Shep Fields, the band leader who made his fame and fortune in the 1930's and 40's with a unique sound he called Rippling Rythm, died of a heart attack yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 70 years old. Mr. Fields developed the Rippling Rythym sound in 1936 when he ..."
- Washington Post; February 26, 1981 "Famous Bandleader Shep Fields a ..."
- The Register-Guard; Eugene, Oregon; February 15, 2002 "When trumpet star and jazz arranger Lou Halmy looks back on the Great Depression of the 1930s, it doesn't seem depressing at all. "I was lucky," the 91-year-old Eugene musician says. "I was playing with a band and working all the time. We had a steady job, which was the rarest thing in music." While many people were standing in bread lines and living in shanty camps, Halmy was inside New York's posh Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, cheering people up by playing his horn in one of the most popular dance bands of the era: Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm ..."
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