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Swamp Ghosts. Creepy Halloween 2020. Wayne King Orch. Birk Bivens vocalist. Victor Records 1930.


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Wayne King was born in Illinois in 1901 and played with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra in the 1920s. In 1927, at age 26, he formed his own band which was a long lived group that performed 56 years until 1983. The orchestra recorded 168 sides for Victor from 1929 to 1942 and another 341 for Decca from 1955 through 1969. The orchestra had a long association with CBS and NBC. He is still remembered as the Waltz King because most of his popular recordings were waltzes.
Felix the Cat turned 100 in November 1919 and was the world's first TV star. In 1928, RCA chose Felix to be on a test pattern 2 hours per day while RCA engineers fine tuned the broadcast picture. He remained for many years after the picture was tuned to the engineers liking. Critics complimented the Felix cartoons mentioning that they portrayed a child's sense of wonder creating the fantastic when it was not there and taking it in stride when it was. Felix's tail could change from an exclamation mark to a hammer to a pencil and emphasized that anything can happen in this world.
Halloween 2020. SWAMP GHOSTS. Wayne King and HIs Orchestra. Burke Bivins, vocalist and composer. Victor Records 1930. Issue 22600.


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