Lew Finston owned Studio & Artists Recording Company that was originally located in the CBS Columbia Square complex. He established Sarco Records in 1946 and produced recordings by Vivien Garry and Bando Carioca.
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Roy Harte – Swing Era Drummer
Roy Harte paid his dues during the final years of the Swing Era in the 1940s when major bands and orchestras were regularly booked at dance halls, auditoriums, and theaters across the United States. To paraphrase Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront, “Roy Harte was a contender,” and regularly placed in the annual Down Beat […]
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Thomas Edward Yerxa If you heard “YERXA(ELEGY MOVEMENT FROM THE JITTERBUG SUITE)” for the first time without any background information regarding its origin you might have assumed it was from a classic black & white film from the 1940s or early 1950s. Arranger/composer credits for “Yerxa” belong to George Handy and Hal McKusick, written for […]
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Bob Dietsche visited Dodo Marmarosa at his home outside Pittsburgh in 1990.
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