Big band remote

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Big Band Remote (or Dance Band Remote , translated as: big-band transmissions ) were a form of radio transmission in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, the coast-to-coast, the recordings of important jazz - dance and big bands sent .

history

The Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra was transferred for the first time in February 1923 under the direction of Joseph Knecht . End of March 1924 joined the Oriole Orchestra of Dan Russo and Ted Fiorito in Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel , was broadcast live as their appearance. Two years later, in July 1926, they opened the legendary Aragon Ballroom ; this and her appearance in the Trianon Ballroom were broadcast nationwide.

In 1929, when Will Osborne's dance band stepped in for Rudy Vallée's orchestra in Manhattan's Heigh-Ho Club , they gained nationwide attention thanks to the radio broadcast from the Heihj-Ho . In 1930, Ben Bernie had his weekly broadcasts from Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel . In November 1937, the performance of the Glenn Miller Orchestra was broadcast by the NBC from the Boston Raymor Ballroom .

The radio broadcasts were usually broadcast by the major radio stations directly from the major hotels, ballrooms, restaurants and clubs. During the Second World War, the appearances from military bases and defense plants were also broadcast.

The band remotes mainly came from big cities like Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Chicago. Chicago became the bands of Count Basie , Frankie Carle , Duke Ellington , Jan Garber , Jerry Gray , Woody Herman , Earl Hines , Eddy Howard (from the Aragon Ballroom ), Dick Jurgens , Kay Kyser (from the Blackhawk Restaurant ), the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra (from the Blackhawk ), Ted Weems , Shep Fields (from the Palmer House ) and by Griff Williams .

Usually the broadcasts were carried out by a two-man team made up of an announcer and a sound engineer; the announcer opened the broadcast with the introductory music as follows:

Coming to you from Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook on Route 23, just off the Pompton Turnpike in Cedar Grove (New Jersey) , we present the music of Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra.
For your dancing pleasure, Columbia brings you the music of Count Basie and his orchestra , coming to you from the Famous Door on Fifty-Second Street in New York City.

Artie Shaw's orchestra has appeared in numerous big band remotes programs , such as from the Rose Room of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Boston. Shaw had regular shows broadcast from the Blue Room of the New York Hotel Lincoln . His CBS programs, sponsored by the cigarette brand Old Gold , ran from November 1938 to November 1939. Before he became head of the Sun Records label , Sam Phillips broadcast big band remotes of the Chuck Foster Orchestra and other dance bands from the Skyway Ballroom at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis .

In the 1950s, the tradition of shows from jazz clubs such as the NBC series Monitor , in which Al Hibbler and others appeared, continued.

Bands and broadcast locations of the big band remotes in the 1930s and 1940s

Web links / sources

Notes / individual evidence

  1. ^ Thompson, ED More Nashville Nostalgia . Westview Publishing, 2004.
  2. ↑ Orgill, Roxane. Dream Lucky: When FDR Was in the White House, Count Basie Was on the Radio, and Everyone Wore a Hat . Smithsonian Books / Collins, 2008.
  3. ↑ Harrison, Jennifer. Elvis As We Knew Him , iUniverse, 2003
  4. ↑ Monitor
  5. ↑ Music & Big Bands