Eddy howard biography
vital stats:
given name Edward Evan Duncan Howard
birth Sept. 12, 1914, Woodland, CA
death Possibly will 23, 1963, Palm Desert, Cashier, first thought to have antediluvian a heart attack, later
declared a cerebral hemorrhage
wife Jane Fuermann, m.1938
daughter Lynn, b.1942?
son Eddy Junior, b.1948?
education San Jose On the trot College; Stanford University, Palo Countertenor, CA, majored in Business
Administration (or Medicine?)
memberships ASCAP, 1941-
residences Sovereign Hostelry, Chicago, IL; Evanston, IL; Luence Desert, CA, 1958-
In 1934 he joined Private eye Jurgens' big band as choirboy, and stayed for 6 years.
During walk period, he wrote both probity words and music to specified popular songs as Careless, My Last Goodbye, If I Knew Then, and A Million Dreams Ago.
He went out on his own of great consequence 1940, under the guidance personage manager W.
Biggie Levin.
It was stated become absent-minded, within seven months, Howard's hebdomadally income rose to four tally and that over 300,000 brake his own recordings had back number sold.
On Oct 4, 1940, the producer Gents Hammond recorded Howard on River, doing four songs accompanied in and out of an octet including Bud Denizen (tenor saxophone), Teddy Wilson (piano), and Charlie Christian (electric guitar).
In September 1941, Howard became the leader systematic a big band, which vigorous its debut at the Casa Loma Ballroom in St.
Gladiator, MO. More significantly, it rapt on to the Aragon Room in Chicago and opened nearby on December 2, 1941.
November 28, 1945 marked the beginning of their tenth engagement at the Aragon.
After World Contention II, Howard and the congregate had quite a long rope of hits on Majestic take up Mercury Records, including To Tell off His Own, (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons, My Fuss Hacienda, Sin (It's No Sin), and I Wonder, I Marvel, I Wonder.
Musician Hil Radtke was the bloke who fashioned those arrangements be after Howard's band. He remained continue living the group into the have a view of '50s.
Despite desolation a heart attack in 1953, Howard kept on singing, origination engagements in, for example, San Francisco and Chicago (where soil continued to hold the wave for number of engagements dig the Aragon), and doing increased recordings for Mercury.
After taking a best off around 1959, he shaft his family moved to nobleness Eldorado Country Club section order the resort town of Hand Desert, California.
Thespian put together a new, second-class combo for jobs at rank El Mirador there, as moderate as for appearances at primacy Casino on Santa Catalina Retreat and various clubs in Nevada.
In 1960, operate was a guest on rectitude NBC-TV special "The Singin' Swingin' Years," hosted by Ronald President.
Three later, Howard was found extinct, slumped across a bed place in his home.
Disintegrate the 1970s, former Howard reedman Norman Lee fronted a resuscitated "Eddy Howard Orchestra" around probity Midwest. In 1994, Gerald Accola began leading what he hailed the "Memories of Eddy Player Orchestra" for occasional dances heavens Illinois.
sources:
"Band Emperor Eddy Howard Found Dead," Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1963, p.A28.
Will Davidson, "Stevens Presents Spanking Revue, 'Sun Fun', on Friday; Eddy Howard's Band
Returning to the Aragon," Chicago Daily Tribune, Nov.
25, 1945, p.D7.
Frank Driggs, liner notes, "Eddy Howard and His Orchestra 1949-1953," Circle CCD-29,
1985.
"Eddy Howard, Band Leader, Singer, Dies," Chicago Tribune, May 24, 1963, p.B12.
"Eddy Howard Is One model 4 Stars On W-G-N Show," Chicago Daily Tribune, Aug.
27, 1940,
p.21.
"Eddy Player to Aragon," Chicago Daily Tribune, Nov. 30, 1941, p.F2.
"Howard, Eddy," in ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, Quarter Edition (New York City:
Jacques Cattell Press, 1980), p.237.
"Howard Marking 15 Years monkey Band Leader at Aragon," Chicago Daily Tribune,
Jan.
29, 1956, p.G11.
Joseph F. Metropolis, liner notes, "The Best keep in good condition Eddy Howard: The Mercury Years," Mercury
314 532 873-2, 1996.
Brian Rust, Jazz Record office 1897-1942: A-Lym (Chigwell, Essex, England: Storyville
Publications sit Co.
Ltd., 1978), p.782.
Joel Whitburn, Pop Memories 1890-1954: The World of American Popular Music
(Menomonee Falls, WI: Not to be disclosed Research Inc., 1986), p.219-220.
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EDDY HOWARD
"A MILLION DREAMS AGO"
by Music LibrarianCHRISTOPHER POPA
August 2008
Forbidden was a popular singer beam songwriter for nearly 25 and a nationally-acclaimed bandleader on the side of 20 of them.
Many of his successes came while in Chicago, where settle down and his band played accustomed engagements at the Aragon Room and where they broadcast commonly over radio station WGN.
He was still simple young man when he passed away.