Tosh Hammed

Tosh Hammed (actually George Paxton , born September 1893 , † 1953 in New York City ) was an American musician (violin), songwriter and entertainer .

Tosh Hammed performed as a musician with a single-string violin around 1911. In the 1910s, he toured the east coast of the United States, performing among others. a. in Boston and in January 1914 at the Lafayette Theater in Harlem . In 1921 he wrote with Harrison Godwin Smith (text) "I Wonder Where My Sweet Sweet Daddy's Gone", who u. a. by Marion Harris , as well as "The Turtle Walk" and "I Wanna Hot Dog for My Roll" (with Clarence Williams ). 1926/27 he appeared with The Five Crackerjacks and Eddie Heywood ; In 1927 he recorded for Okeh Records with the vocal duo Butterbeans and Susie . In the following years he recorded as One String Willie for Columbia Records as the accompanist of Lionel O. Licorish. In a revue at Chicago's Plantation Club, he starred alongside King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators. In 1935 he was a guest at the Apollo Theater in New York . He toured Europe in 1936/37 with a company called The Five Ebonites ; In 1940 he appeared in New York's West End Theater. From 1943 he worked mainly as an arranger and songwriter.

In 1944 he appeared in the Soundie Dance Your Old Age Away , in which Hammed "sings and performs amazing acrobatics", according to Billboard . He also recorded for smaller labels, including a. 1947 with the women's vocal band Chic-Chocs and under his own name as "Tosh (One-String Willie) and his Jivesters". He also appeared on the Milton Berle Show. In early 1953, Hammed died of a fall in New York City.

Web links

• Tosh Hammed in the database of DAHR , see also further database entries: A B C (English). Retrieved May 28, 2019.
• Tosh Hammed audio files in the National Jukebox of the Library of Congress (English). Retrieved June 15, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights 1959
2. ↑ Columbia matrix 79793. I wonder where my sweet sweet daddy's gone? / Marion Harris. In: Discography of American Historical Recordings . Retrieved May 28, 2019 . 
3. ^ The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks, Volume 78, 1950
4. ↑ Larry Richards McFarland: African American Films Through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography. 1998.
5. ^ Billboard - February 17, 1945
6. ↑ The Soundies: Skeets Tolbert and Tosh Hammed ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.