Eddie Walters

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Eddie Walters (* around 1905) was an American jazz and novelty singer and ukulele player who worked with well-known jazz musicians of the time such as Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman and who gained popularity on radio and radio in the United States around 1930 learned through his recordings. Stylistically, his singing was based on Cliff Edwards .

Live and act

Eddie Walters began singing on the New York radio station WGBS in 1927, accompanying himself with the ukulele. In 1930 he appeared in a program by Jimmy Van Heusen on the broadcaster WABC, in 1932 and 1933 with Sis and Harry Harding and in 1935 with Nancy Clancy as the Modern Minstrels . He became better known from the late 1920s, when he wrote songs under his own name such as the then popular Eddie Cantor number “ Makin 'Whoopee ” and “I'm Ka-Razy for You” (Columbia 1763, 1929) as well as “Collegiate Sam "and" Little By Little "(Columbia 1969) recorded. In 1930 he was a member of Columbia - studio band with which he the singer Lee Morse accompanied ( " 'Tain't No Sin"). On the same day he recorded the tracks "Leven-Thirty Saturday Night" and "Me and the Girl Next Door" with this band. It was during this time that "Girl Trouble" (Columbia 2223), a song from the MGM production Children of Pleasure (director: Harry Beaumont ), was written. In March 1930 he worked as a band vocalist with Ben Selvin , to be heard on the tracks "The Free and Easy" (OKeh 41392), "Nobody's Fault But Your Own" (aka The Knickerbockers , Columbia 1780), "Looking at You Across the Breakfast Table "(Col 2150) and" Let Me Sing and I'm Happy "(Col 2149).

Walters recorded the number "It Must Be Love" (Columbia 2232) under his own name - accompanied by Mannie Klein , Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Frank Signorelli and Eddie Lang . In May 1930 he worked as a musician with Rube Bloom ("On Revival Day") and as a vocalist with the Charleston Chasers ("Here Comes Emily Brown"), in June again as a band singer with Ben Selvin ("Why Have You Forgotten Waikiki") . His last recordings under his own name were made in September 1931 when he (probably with Bob Effros or Mannie Klein, Frank Signorelli, Dick McDonough ) the songs "(Since They're All Playing) Miniature Golf" and "Go Home and Tell Your Mother" (Col 2290). He worked under a pseudonym with Fred Rich when he was the vocalist of Chester Leighton and His Sophomores ("On the Beach With You", 1931). The last recordings with Ben Selvin followed in June 1931 (“Sing Another Chorus, Please”). In the field of jazz he was involved in 13 recording sessions between 1929 and 1931. In 1939 he had his last radio appearances; then his track is lost.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ate Van Delden, liner notes from the compilation The Charleston Chasers & New York Studio Groups 1928-1930, Vol. 2 ( Timeless Records )
  2. ^ Metronome, Volume 45, 1929
  3. ↑ A title by Al Jolson , Billy Rose, and Dave Dreyer .
  4. ↑ With Tommy Dorsey (tp), Charlie Butterfield (tb), Jimmy Dorsey (cl, as), Adrian Rollini (bassax), Frank Signorelli (p), Carl Kress (git), Stan King (dr)
  5. ↑ a b c d Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 1, 2017)
  6. ↑ Information on Girl Trouble / A Bench in the Park at Discogs
  7. ↑ The title was the B-side of Leo Reisman's title The Wedding of the Painted Doll .
  8. ^ B-side of the 78s was I Love You So Much , recorded in June in a slightly different line-up with Mannie Klein (tp), Frank Signorelli (p), Eddie Lang (git), Joe Tarto (kb) and Stan King (dr) .
personal data
SURNAME Walters, Eddie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1905
DATE OF DEATH after 1939