Shep Fields, the Glossary
Shep Fields (born Saul Feldman, September 12, 1910 – February 23, 1981) was an American bandleader who led the Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm orchestra during the 1930s.[1]
Table of Contents
136 relations: Academy Awards, Accordion, Al Jolson, Alto flute, Alto saxophone, Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles), Art Mooney, Associated Press, Baritone saxophone, Bass clarinet, Bass saxophone, Benny Goodman, Big band remote, Bluebird Records, Bob Hope, Bob Johnstone (singer), California Birth Index, Carl Frederick Tandberg, Catskill Mountains, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Charles Kenny, Charlie Spivak, Clarinet, Claude Thornhill, Cole Porter, Copacabana (nightclub), Creative Management Associates, Dave Fleischer, Discography of American Historical Recordings, Don't Blame Me (Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh song), Dorothy Allen, Dorothy Fields, Dorothy Lamour, Double bass, Ed Haley, Eddie Cantor, Eddy Duchin, Eli Oberstein, Ferde Grofé, Film producer, Flute, Frank Churchill, Fred Fisher, Freddie Fields, George Gershwin, Glenn Osser, Glissando, Grand Canyon Suite, Great Depression, Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, ... Expand index (86 more) »
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
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Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).
Al Jolson
Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson,; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-born American singer, actor, and vaudevillian. Shep Fields and al Jolson are Jewish American musicians.
Alto flute
The alto flute is an instrument in the Western concert flute family, pitched below the standard C flute and the uncommon flûte d'amour.
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Alto saxophone
The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments.
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Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)
The Ambassador Hotel was a hotel in Los Angeles, California.
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Art Mooney
Arthur Joseph Mooney (February 11, 1911 – September 9, 1993) was an American singer and bandleader.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Baritone saxophone
The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass.
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Bass clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family.
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Bass saxophone
The bass saxophone is one of the lowest-pitched members of the saxophone family—larger and lower than the more common baritone saxophone.
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Benny Goodman
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". Shep Fields and Benny Goodman are American jazz bandleaders, big band bandleaders, Jewish American musicians and swing bandleaders.
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Big band remote
A big band remote (a.k.a. dance band remote) was a remote broadcast, common on radio during the 1930s and 1940s, involving a coast-to-coast live transmission of a big band.
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Bluebird Records
Bluebird Records is an American record label best known for its low-cost releases, primarily of children's music, blues, jazz and swing in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.
Bob Johnstone (singer)
Bob Johnstone (September 22, 1916 – May 6, 1994) was an American traditional pop music singer.
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California Birth Index
The California Birth Index (CABI) is a database compiled by the California Office of Health Information and Research.
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Carl Frederick Tandberg
Carl Frederick Tandberg (March 22, 1910 – August 26, 1988), was a bassist who recorded with Glen Campbell and Frankie Ortega.
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Catskill Mountains
The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York.
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, tertiary, 915-bed teaching hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in Los Angeles, California.
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Charles Kenny
Charles Francis Kenny (June 23, 1898 – January 20, 1992) was an American composer, lyricist, author, and violinist.
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Charlie Spivak
Charlie Spivak (February 17, 1907 – March 1, 1982) was an American trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his big band in the 1940s. Shep Fields and Charlie Spivak are big band bandleaders and Jewish American musicians.
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Clarinet
The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.
Claude Thornhill
Claude Thornhill (August 10, 1908 – July 1, 1965) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. Shep Fields and Claude Thornhill are American jazz bandleaders and big band bandleaders.
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Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter.
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Copacabana (nightclub)
The Copacabana is a New York City nightclub that has existed in several locations.
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Creative Management Associates
Creative Management Associates (CMA) was an American talent booking agency.
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Dave Fleischer
Dave Fleischer (July 14, 1894 – June 25, 1979) was an American film director and producer who co-owned Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer.
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Discography of American Historical Recordings
The Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) is a database catalog of master recordings made by American record companies during the 78rpm era.
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Don't Blame Me (Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh song)
"Don't Blame Me" is a popular song with music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields.
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Dorothy Allen
Dorothy Allen (October 23, 1896 – September 30, 1970) was an American actress principally active in the 1920s.
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Dorothy Fields
Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1904 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist.
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Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour (born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American actress and singer.
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Double bass
The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).
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Ed Haley
James Edward "Ed" Haley (August 16, 1885February 3, 1951) was a blind professional American musician and composer best known for his fiddle playing.
Eddie Cantor
Eddie Cantor (born Isidore Itzkowitz; January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964) was an American comedian, actor, dancer, singer, songwriter, film producer, screenwriter and author. Shep Fields and Eddie Cantor are Jewish American musicians.
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Eddy Duchin
Edwin Frank Duchin (April 1, 1909 – February 9, 1951), commonly known as Eddy Duchin or alternatively Eddie Duchin, was an American popular music pianist and bandleader during the 1930s and 1940s. Shep Fields and Eddy Duchin are big band bandleaders and jazz musicians from New York City.
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Eli Oberstein
Elliott Everett "Eli" Oberstein (born Elias Oberstein; December 13, 1901 – June 12, 1960) was an American record producer and music business executive who established the influential Bluebird record label in the 1930s and owned a succession of small labels in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Ferde Grofé
Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé, known as Ferde Grofé (March 27, 1892 April 3, 1972) (pronounced) was an American composer, arranger, pianist, and instrumentalist.
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Film producer
A film producer is a person who oversees film production.
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Flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
Frank Churchill
Frank Edwin Churchill (October 20, 1901 – May 14, 1942) was an American film composer and songwriter.
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Fred Fisher
Fred Fisher (born Alfred Breitenbach, September 30, 1875 – January 14, 1942) was a German-born American songwriter and Tin Pan Alley music publisher.
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Freddie Fields
Freddie Fields (July 12, 1923 – December 11, 2007), born Fred Feldman, was an American theatrical agent and film producer.
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George Gershwin
George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Shep Fields and George Gershwin are musicians from Brooklyn.
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Glenn Osser
Abraham Arthur "Glenn" Osser (August 28, 1914 – April 29, 2014) was an American musician, musical arranger, orchestra leader, and songwriter. Shep Fields and Glenn Osser are Jewish American musicians.
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Glissando
In music, a glissando (plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another.
Grand Canyon Suite
The Grand Canyon Suite is a suite for orchestra by Ferde Grofé, composed between 1929 and 1931.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel
Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel was a resort in the Catskill Mountains in the Town of Liberty, near the village of Liberty, New York.
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Hal Kemp
James Hal Kemp (March 27, 1904 – December 21, 1940) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, composer, and arranger. Shep Fields and Hal Kemp are American jazz bandleaders, big band bandleaders and swing bandleaders.
Handle with Care (1977 film)
Handle with Care is a 1977 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Demme.
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Harry Warren
Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna; December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. Shep Fields and Harry Warren are musicians from Brooklyn.
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Hartford Courant
The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is advertised as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.
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Hooverville
Hoovervilles were shanty towns built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States.
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I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" is a popular song copyrighted in 1937 by its composer, Irving Berlin, and first recorded by (i) Ray Noble (January 5, 1937), Howard Barrie, vocalist; (ii) Red Norvo (January 8, 1937), Mildred Bailey, vocalist; (iii) and Billie Holiday with her orchestra (January 12, 1937).
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I've Got You Under My Skin
"I've Got You Under My Skin" is a song written by American composer Cole Porter in 1936.
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Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershovitz; December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century.
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and songwriter. Shep Fields and Irving Berlin are Jewish American musicians.
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It's De-Lovely
"It's De-Lovely" is one of Cole Porter's hit songs, originally appearing in his 1936 musical, Red Hot and Blue.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jersey Bounce
"Jersey Bounce" is a song written by Tiny Bradshaw, Eddie Johnson, and Bobby Plater with lyrics by Buddy Feyne who used the pseudonym Robert B. Wright.
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Jimmy McHugh
James Francis McHugh (July 10, 1894 – May 23, 1969) was an American composer.
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Joe Negri
Joseph Harold Negri (born June 10, 1926) is an American jazz guitarist and educator.
John Serry Sr.
John Serry Sr. (born John Serrapica; January 29, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was an American concert accordionist, arranger, composer, organist, and educator. Shep Fields and John Serry Sr. are musicians from Brooklyn.
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Joseph Schillinger
Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger (Ио́сиф Моисе́евич Ши́ллингер; (other sources) – 23 March 1943) was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher who originated the Schillinger System of Musical Composition.
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Juilliard School
The Juilliard School is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City.
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Ken Curtis
Ken Curtis (born Curtis Wain Gates; July 2, 1916 – April 28, 1991) was an American actor and singer best known for his role as Festus Haggen on the western television series Gunsmoke.
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Larry Morey
Lawrence L. Morey (March 26, 1905 – May 8, 1971) was an American lyricist and screenwriter.
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Leonard Feather
Leonard Geoffrey Feather (13 September 1914 – 22 September 1994) was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.
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Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" is a song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin for the 1937 film Shall We Dance, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as part of a celebrated dance duet on roller skates.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Louis Halmy
Lou Halmy (June 23, 1911 – March 14, 2005) was a jazz musician and music arranger.
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Martha Raye
Martha Raye (born Margy Reed; August 27, 1916 – October 19, 1994), nicknamed The Big Mouth, was an American comic actress and singer who performed in movies, and later on television.
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MCA Inc.
MCA Inc.
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.
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MGM Records
MGM Records was a record label founded by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack recordings (later LP albums) of their musical films.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it is the primary newspaper and also the largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin, where it is widely read.
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Mitchell Leisen
James Mitchell Leisen (October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972) was an American director, art director, and costume designer.
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Mount Hebron Cemetery (New York City)
Mount Hebron is a Jewish cemetery located in Flushing, Queens, New York, United States.
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Museum of Broadcast Communications
The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is an American museum, the stated mission of which is "to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform and entertain through our archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to our resources." It is headquartered in Chicago.
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Mutual Broadcasting System
The Mutual Broadcasting System (commonly referred to simply as Mutual; sometimes referred to as MBS, Mutual Radio or the Mutual Radio Network) was an American commercial radio network in operation from 1934 to 1999.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
New Rochelle, New York
New Rochelle (older La Nouvelle-Rochelle) is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States.
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New York Biltmore Hotel
The New York Biltmore Hotel was a luxury hotel at 335 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Ottawa Citizen
The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Paramount Theatre (Manhattan)
The Paramount Theatre was a 3,664-seat movie palace located at 43rd Street and Broadway on Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Paul Whiteman
Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist. Shep Fields and Paul Whiteman are American jazz bandleaders, big band bandleaders and jazz musicians from New York City.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.
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Piccolo
The piccolo (Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.
Ralph Rainger
Ralph Rainger (Reichenthal; October 7, 1901 – October 23, 1942) was an American composer of popular music principally for films.
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Ralph Young (singer)
Ralph Young (July 1, 1918 – August 22, 2008) was an American singer and actor.
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RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
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Roosevelt Hotel (Manhattan)
The Roosevelt Hotel is a former hotel and a shelter for asylum seekers at 45 East 45th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
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Roseland Ballroom
The Roseland Ballroom was a multipurpose hall, in a converted ice skating rink, with a colorful ballroom dancing pedigree, in New York City's theater district, on West 52nd Street in Manhattan.
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Sammy Fain
Sammy Fain (born Samuel E. Feinberg; June 17, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American composer of popular music.
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September in the Rain
"September in the Rain" is a popular song about nostalgia by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, published in 1937.
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Sid Caesar
Isaac Sidney Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American actor, comedian and writer.
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Soda fountain
A soda fountain is a device that dispenses carbonated soft drinks, called fountain drinks.
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Soup kitchen
A soup kitchen, food kitchen, or meal center is a place where food is offered to the hungry usually for no price, or sometimes at a below-market price (such as coin donations).
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Talent agent
A talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds work for actors, authors, broadcast journalists, film directors, musicians, models, professional athletes, screenwriters, writers, and other professionals in various entertainment or sports businesses.
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Technicolor
Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.
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Ted Fio Rito
Theodore Salvatore Fiorito (December 20, 1900 – July 22, 1971),DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). Shep Fields and Ted Fio Rito are big band bandleaders.
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Temple blocks
Temple blocks are a type of percussion instrument consisting of a set of woodblocks.
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Tenor saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.
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Thanks for the Memory
"Thanks for the Memory" (1938) is a popular song composed by Ralph Rainger with lyrics by Leo Robin.
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That Old Feeling (song)
"That Old Feeling" is a popular song about nostalgia written by Sammy Fain, with lyrics by Lew Brown.
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The Big Broadcast of 1938
The Big Broadcast of 1938 is a Paramount Pictures musical comedy film starring W. C. Fields and featuring Bob Hope.
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The Biltmore Los Angeles
The Biltmore Los Angeles, originally The Biltmore, is a historic hotel opened in 1923 and located opposite Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles, California.
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The Fountain in the Park
"The Fountain in the Park", also known as "While Strolling Through (or Thru') the Park One Day", is a song by Ed Haley, a member of the vaudeville act the Haley Brothers.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Palmer House Hilton
The Palmer House – A Hilton Hotel is a historic hotel in Chicago's Loop area.
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The Pierre
The Pierre is a luxury hotel located at 2 East 61st Street, at the intersection of that street with Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan, New York City, facing Central Park.
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The Register-Guard
The Register-Guard is a daily newspaper in the northwestern United States, published in Eugene, Oregon.
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The Telegraph (Nashua, New Hampshire)
The Telegraph, for most of its existence known as the Nashua Telegraph, is a daily newspaper in Nashua, New Hampshire.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Toni Arden
Antoinette Ardizzone (February 15, 1924 – May 29, 2012), known professionally as Toni Arden, was an American traditional pop singer.
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Travelling exhibition
A travelling exhibition, also referred to as a "travelling exhibit" or a "touring exhibition", is a type of exhibition that is presented at more than one venue.
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Trombone
The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.
Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
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United Service Organizations
The United Service Organizations Inc. (USO) is an American nonprofit-charitable corporation that provides live entertainment, such as comedians, actors and musicians, social facilities, and other programs to members of the United States Armed Forces and their families.
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Veloz and Yolanda
Frank Veloz (1906–1981) and Yolanda Casazza (1908–1995) were a self-taught American ballroom dance team, husband and wife, who became stars in the 1930s and 1940s, and were among the highest paid dance acts during that era.
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Viola
The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed.
W. C. Fields
William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler, and writer.
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Waldorf Astoria New York
The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel and condominium residence in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Wayne King
Harold Wayne King (February 16, 1901 – July 16, 1985) was an American musician, songwriter, and bandleader with a long association with both NBC and CBS. Shep Fields and Wayne King are big band bandleaders.
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Whistle While You Work
"Whistle While You Work" is a song with music written by Frank Churchill and lyrics written by Larry Morey for the 1937 animated Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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Wings of the Morning (1937 film)
Wings of the Morning is a 1937 British drama film directed by Harold D. Schuster and starring Annabella, Henry Fonda, and Leslie Banks.
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With a Smile and a Song (song)
"With a Smile and a Song" is a popular song.
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WOR Radio Network
The WOR Radio Network was a slate of nationally syndicated radio programming produced and distributed by flagship radio station WOR in New York City.
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Wyndham New Yorker Hotel
The New Yorker Hotel is a mixed-use hotel building at 481 Eighth Avenue in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
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You'd Be So Easy to Love
"(You'd Be So) Easy to Love" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for William Gaxton to sing in the 1934 Broadway show Anything Goes.
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You're Laughing at Me
"You're Laughing at Me" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1937 film On the Avenue, where it was introduced by Dick Powell.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shep_Fields
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