Horace Heidt

Horace Heidt ( born May 21, 1901 in Alameda, California, † 1 December 1986 in Del Mar, California ) was an American big band leader, pianist and entertainer, the one of the most successful in the U.S. dance bands of the 1930s and 1940s initiated.

Life

Heidt attended the University of Berkeley and originally wanted to play professional football, but injured his back. In 1923 he founded a dance band that toured quite in the 1920s in vaudeville and was also in Europe. Having disbanded the orchestra he founded in 1932 a new band, " Horace Heidt and his Brigadiers ," which from the Drake Theater in Chicago in 1936 had its own national radio show. They also handed out cash to the audience, which made ​​them extremely popular. Your program "Pot o ' Gold" was filmed in 1941 with Heidt. In the film, Pot o 'Gold George Marshall directed, the main roles were James Stewart and Paulette Goddard.

The success of the swing also impressed Heidt and he tried for " Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights " to increase the quality of his band by musicians such as Bobby Hackett, Irving Fazola, Frank De Vol and Jess Stacy dedicated ( and resolved from the Glenn Miller orchestral arranger Bill Finegan and briefly Tex Beneke ). Heidt also took women in the band. As a singer, among other things, acted the "King Sisters", Larry Cotton, "Donna and her Don Juans " (with Donna Wood). Theme song of the end of the 1940s 1930er/Anfang very popular band was " I'll love you in my dreams". With "Gone with the Wind" in 1937 they had a # 1 hit and also in 1938 with " Ti -Pi -Tin " and a # 2 hit in 1939 with "The Man with the Mandolin ". In 1941, he had six top 10 hits, including with Goodbye and Now I Do not Want To Set The World On Fire two titles that reached the second place in the charts. The following year, he still managed a top with his version of Deep In The Heart Of Texas 10 hit. His last visit to the charts was reached in 1947 with the title Do not Fence Me In, the number 7.

Due to a dispute with his management he retired in 1945 and devoted himself to his real estate investments, which made him one of the most prosperous time orchestra conductor. In 1947 he was back and led the orchestra in the radio talent shows ( "Talent Show," " Youth Opportunity Show"). From 1950 he was also the " Horace Heidt Show" ( a transfer of his radio talent show, one of the first TV talent shows ever ) and in 1955 with the "The Swift Show Wagon" on television. Shortly after he retired.

22 years after his death built the video game developer company, Bethesda Softworks Heidts song " I do not want to set the world on fire" as theme music in the game Fallout 3 a.

His son Horace Heidt Jr. is also a bandleader.

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