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Charles Cyril "Charlie" Creath, born in 1890 in Ironton, Missouri was a multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. He started out in circus and theatre bands in the early 1900's. Sources give different dates, but sometime in the early 1920's, he began to lead bands on Steckfus riverboats out of St. Louis and continued doing that for a number of years.
He was a...
I'm spotlighting a tune written by the interracial writing team of Jack Yellen (lyrics) and Maceo Pinkard (music). Yellen wrote the words for "Happy Days Are Here Again" and "Ain't She Sweet." Pinkard wrote a number of tunes, including "Sweet Georgia Brown," the history of which I write about
This session are under the leadership of trumpeter Joe 'Wingy' Manone. Manone was a Sicilian from New Orleans, who acquired his nickname because he lost an arm in a streetcar accident at age 10. He had a decent prosthesis, which allowed him to play without too much distraction on his part or the part of the audience. Wingy didn't have a great range, but he swung like crazy.
Here's an interesting tune by a Bubber Miley-led group, with Frank Marvin providing the vocal. Ken Macomber is actually listed as the Director of the session and probably wrote the arrangement.
This is a pretty high-powered group of white musicians, along with Don Redman who is the composer, arranger and plays clarinet and alto sax. George Thomas of McKinney's Cotton Pickers does the vocal and plays tenor sax.
