Word: duchin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Band Leader Eddie Duchin was playing the samba in theater engagements; his samba disc Brazil was a steady seller. Duchin had spent last summer in Rio, had come back steamed up with the samba's possibilities...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia led a band for a refugee benefit at Madison Square Garden. Among his bandsmen: Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Eddy Duchin, Guy Lombardo, Sammy Kaye...
Four bands, including the crack complements of Ted Fio Rito and Eddie Duchin, performed. Judy Garland trilled Over the Rainbow. John Charles Thomas baritoned Sunday-evening favorite, Albert Hay Malotte's The Lord's Prayer. Gene Buck gave mikeside support to an uncertain quaver that was Irving Berlin returning God Bless America to the air. Day after this outpouring Mutual began concerted plugging of its exclusive popular-tune library. Yet its competitive advantage over the big networks was not immediate. Present commercial contracts send Mutual programs to twelve affiliates who want no part of ASCAP as well...
...panic was on. Band leaders like Glenn Miller, Sammy Kaye, Eddy Duchin decided not to take the legal risks involved in being wired onto sustaining network broadcasts, and at week's end the networks were showing a willingness to give the band leaders protection provided arrangements were submitted to them a week before being aired. Those bands that risked it were subjected to grueling auditions by the networks' lawyers and tune detectives. B. M. I. took out $1,000,000 worth of copyright insurance...
Some of the Country's leading name bands have appeared at the Totem Pole ballroom. Mitchell Ayres, Bob Crosby Eddie Duchin, Gene Krupa, Sammy Kay and Guy Lombardo are among the orchestras who have played there. Will Bradley and his band is appearing at the ballroom this week...