Word: banjoist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting Seed. In 1930 he went into commercial radio as "Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist," advertising bird seed. Next year, while "one of NBC's dullest announcers, and that's saying plenty," he was hit by a truck, spent four months in a hospital, listening hour after hour to the radio...
Trombonist Turk Murphy, who uses an empty gallon paint can for a mute, used to sit in with Bunk Johnson. Banjoist Henry Mordecai once played guitar, caught the jazz fever and bought three riverboat banjos so he could switch from one to another when his ferocious strumming broke the strings. Drummer Bill Dart has fingers like crowbars, drums almost exclusively on wood blocks and a washboard. Pianist Wally Rose, a man with a solid beat, also plays Bach and Chopin...
...Chicago hotspot, salesman of cemetery lots in Detroit, vaudeville trouper in Los Angeles. In 1927 he wearied of it all. enlisted in the Coast Guard. While still in the service, he got involved in an amateur radio show in Baltimore, wound up as "Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist." sponsored by a birdseed firm. With the help of Maryland's late Governor Ritchie, he broke out of the service to make radio his business...