Waring’s Pennsylvanians – Looking At The World Thru’ Rose-Colored Glasses, Fox-Trot (Tommy Malie – Jimmy Steiger) with Vocal Chorus (by Fred & Tom Waring) Gramola Record (Austrian release; produced by The Gramophone Company, UK/Czechoslovakia) 1926
NOTE: Fred WARING (b. 1900 in Tyrone, Pennsylvania – d. 1984 in State College, Pennsylvania) - American band leader, composer and radio and tv personality, entrepreneur and renaissance man.. For almost seven decades, he and his Pennsylvanians entertained audiences throughout the world on stage, radio, television, records, and in motion pictures, and toured America and other countries. The band was formed in 1918 at Pennsylvania State University by the brothers Fred and Tom Waring, and their friends Freddy Buck and Poley McClintock. They first billed themselves as the Waring-McClintock Snap Orchestra and then became Waring's Banjo Orchestra before adopting the name of Waring's Pennsylvanians in 1922. In 1923 they had a big hit with the record Sleep and the song continued to be the band's theme song for many years to come. The Pennsylvanians became very popular at colleges and often played fraternity parties, proms, and local dances before they appeared at movie theatres and vaudeville houses across the United States becoming one of the sought after acts in show business. In 1925 Waring's Pennsylvanians had a huge hit with Collegiate and it remains their best-known song. By the end of the 1920s they were one of the best known dance bands in the country and they starred in an early sound film called \"Syncopation\" in 1929. In the 1930s the Pennsylvanians were on radio hosting shows sponsored by Old Gold, Ford, Chesterfield and General Electric especially when Fred Waring invented and marketed the kitchen blender.
The Pennsylvanians stopped making records between 1932 – 1942 because they thought that they were competing against their radio shows. The band continued to be popular well into the 1950s and had their own tv show sponsored by General Electric. During next decades, the band's music changed and they became more of a choral group than a Jazz group, but the Waring's Pennsylvanians remained active until Waring's death in 1984.
