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Jan Garber - 76% match to Frankie Masters

5 November 1897, Morristown, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 5 October 1977, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. Known as ‘The Idol of the Air Lanes’, Garber led both sweet and swing bands, although he is generally remembered as a creator of saccharine sounds. He attended the University of North Carolina and later became a violinist with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. After mi Read more

Ralph Flanagan - 70% match to Frankie Masters

Charlie Spivak - 33% match to Frankie Masters

Bobby Sherwood - 32% match to Frankie Masters

30 May 1914, Indianapolis, USA. Self-taught on several instruments, Sherwood first appeared on stage as a child when he became a member of a vaudeville troupe. In the mid-30s he was hired by Bing Crosby as accompanist following the death of guitarist Eddie Lang. Through his association with Crosby, Sherwood readily secured work in Hollywood, mostly with MGM. In 1941, by this Read more

Boyd Raeburn - 29% match to Frankie Masters

Boyd Albert Raden, 27 October 1913, Faith, South Dakota, USA, d. 2 August 1966, Layfayette, Indiana, USA. Raeburn attended the University of Chicago, where he led a campus band, before becoming a professional musician leading a small, light music band, but in the 30s turned his attention to swing. In 1944 he formed a high-class band that featured some fine young musicians in Read more

Al Donahue - 25% match to Frankie Masters

1903, USA, d. 20 February 1983. Al Donahue And His Orchestra played their first professional engagement at the Weber Duck Inn in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in 1925. Donahue had learnt his musical craft on steamships for the Eastern Steamship Line, and also played for campus groups while at college. The shows in Boston were well-received and brokered further engagements at t Read more

Ziggy Elman - 21% match to Frankie Masters

Harry Aaron Finkelman, 26 May 1914, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 26 June 1968, Los Angeles, California, USA. As a child Elman learned to play various brass and reed instruments, and his first professional engagement was on trombone, although his main instrument later became the trumpet. In 1936 he joined Benny Goodman and formed part of one of the best three-man trump Read more

Teddy Powell - 20% match to Frankie Masters

Alfred Paolella, 1 March 1905, Oakland, California, USA. As a boy Powell studied violin and music theory privately, then attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In 1927 he was playing guitar and banjo with Abe Lyman’s band, staying with them until 1935 when he became a radio producer for an advertising agency. He also branched out as a songwriter, with hits su Read more

Eddy Howard - 19% match to Frankie Masters

12 September 1914, Woodland, California, USA, d. 23 May 1963, Palm Desert, California, USA. After attending San Jose State College and Stanford University Medical School, Howard sang on radio and worked with bands led by George Olsen, Tom Gerun and Ben Bernie, eventually becoming the resident crooner with the Dick Jurgens Orchestra in 1934. Howard spent nearly six years wit Read more

Leo Reisman - 19% match to Frankie Masters

11 October 1897, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, d. 18 December 1961, Miami, Florida, USA. After being presented with a violin at the age of 10, Reisman attended the New England Conservatoire of Music. At the age of 18, he joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, while simultaneously leading a local dance orchestra. By 1919, he had formed his own dance band playing at Boston Read more

Maggie Jones - 19% match to Frankie Masters

Fae Barnes, c.1900, Hillsboro, Texas, USA. Jones worked in black revue from around 1922, first in New York and later in the Dallas/Fort Worth area until her retirement from showbusiness in about 1934. Her history thereafter is unknown. Her Columbia recordings, made between 1924 and 1926, besides including some of the most sensitive recorded playing by Louis Armstrong and Ch Read more

Ray McKinley - 17% match to Frankie Masters

18 June 1910, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, d. 7 May 1995, Largo, Florida, USA. After drumming in the dance band led by fellow Texan, singer Smith Ballew, McKinley joined the Dorsey Brothers orchestra in 1934. When the band became Jimmy Dorsey’s, after his brother Tommy walked out, McKinley remained in the drum chair until 1939. In the autumn of that year he formed a band tha Read more

Ray Herbeck - 16% match to Frankie Masters

27 November 1910, Los Angeles, California, USA, d. 17 January 1989, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Formed in Los Angeles, California, USA, in 1935, the Ray Herbeck Orchestra soon relocated to Chicago to pursue the lucrative Midwest one-nighter circuit. With their theme song, ‘Romance’, Herbeck’s was one of the most commercially orientated orchestras of the day. Having Read more

Dean Hudson - 15% match to Frankie Masters

Dick McDonough - 14% match to Frankie Masters

Richard Tobin McDonough, 30 July 1904, New York City, New York, USA, d. 25 May 1938, New York City, New York, USA. Guitarist McDonough began on banjo and by the mid-20s was in great demand on record sessions by jazz groups, popular singers and dance bands of the day. Among the artists with whom he recorded were Red Nichols, Red McKenzie, Connee Boswell, Benny Goodman, Mildre Read more