Teddy Walters

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Teddy Walters (* around 1920 ; † after 1947 ) was an American musician ( vocals , guitar , composition ) who was successful as a band vocalist in the swing era.

Live and act

Teddy Walters began his career as a guitarist with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra , with whom the first recordings were made in 1942 ("That Drummer's Band", Columbia). In the following years he worked with Les Brown (1943), Tommy Dorsey , the Cozy Cole All Stars (1944), Eddie Heywood / Billie Holiday ("How Am I to Know?", 1944) and with Sonny Greer . From mid-1944 he was a band vocalist with Jimmy Dorsey , to be heard in titles such as "This I Love Above All", " Twilight Time " or "Moon On My Pillow" (Decca 1944).

In 1946, accompanied by the Mannie Klein Orchestra, he performed several singles under his own name , mostly romantic ballads such as "Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)" / "You I Love" (ARA), "Adventure" (Musicraft), "Only Heaven Knows", "You Can Call It Madness" and "Why Don't We Say We're Sorry" (with Sonny Burke Orchestra). In 1946 he was a member of the Mel-Tones singing group around Mel Tormé with Artie Shaw . Stylistically, his singing is based on Dick Haymes . In the field of jazz he was involved in 53 recording sessions between 1942 and 1947. With Sid Robin he wrote the tracks "Wait Till It Happens to You" and "My Baby Said Yes".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Billboard Nov. 4, 1944
  2. ↑ Billboard June 22, 1946
  3. ^ Billboard July 27, 1946
  4. ↑ Colin Bratkovich: Just Remeember This . Xlibris, 2014. p. 408
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 12, 2018)
  6. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, Volume 27, 1974, p. 1005
personal data
SURNAME Walters, teddy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1920
DATE OF DEATH after 1947