Chick Bullock

Chick Bullock ( born September 16, 1908 in Butte (Montana ), † 15 September 1981 ) was an American singer in the field of jazz and dance music.

Chick Bullock was in the 1930s popular singer who recorded with jazz and dance bands; he played throughout his career an approximately 500 pieces. He began his career in vaudeville and sang in the movie theaters to accompany silent films. In the late 1920s he started a career as a studio musician; in the 1930s sang among others by Duke Ellington, Luis Russell, Cab Calloway ( " Git Along", 1932), The Rhythm Makers with Red Allen ( " Shine on Your Shoes ", 1932), Bunny Berigan, Bill Coleman, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang. With the Duke Ellington Orchestra, which recorded under the pseudonym The Georgia Foot Warmers, 1930 was " I'm So in Love with You". For some of his recordings Bullock used pseudonyms even as Sleepy Hall.

Although Bullock also took under his own name ( Chick Bullock & His Levee Loungers ), entered because of an eye condition hardly publicly. in December 1932 he had a first hit the charts with " Underneath the Harlem Moon" (# 18), followed by " ( When It's ) Darkness on the Delta " in February 1933, in which he had received from a studio band with famous musicians like Bunny Berigan, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Bernstein and Stan King was accompanied. His last chart success was in May 1935, the Al Dubin / Harry Warren composition " Lullaby of Broadway " (# 19). In the 1940s, the recording ban ended his career; He moved to California where he worked as a realtor.

Links / sources

• Eugene Chadbourne: Chick Bullock biography at Allmusic

• Jazz Singer
• American musician
• Born in 1908
• Died in 1981
• Man