Shep Fields

Shep Fields ( born September 12, 1910 in Brooklyn, New York, † February 23, 1981 in Los Angeles ) was an American clarinetist, saxophonist and band leader in the field of swing and popular music.

Life and work

Fields comes from the New York City borough of Brooklyn. He played in college bands clarinet and tenor saxophone. To 1933, he led a dance band, a commitment to Grossinger 's Catskill Resort Hotel Had; In 1936, he played with his big band at Chicago's Palmer House; The concert was broadcast on the radio. Hallmark of his shows was the bubbling noise that arises when one blows into lemonade with a straw; Finally, the name of the Fields band was at a public competition was found that contained the term " rippling ", his orchestra was called henceforth Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm.

In 1936 he received a record contract with the label Blue Bird; Hits such as " Cathedral in the Pines ", " Did I Remember? ", " Thanks for the Memory ", " Plenty of Money and You" were published. 1937 Fields started a radio show called The Rippling Rhythm Revue with Bob Hope as an announcer; 1938 was followed by a stint at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, and his appearance in the feature film The Big Broadcast of 1938. Were members of his orchestra, inter alia, Jack Jenney, the singer and later bandleader Hal Derwin, accordionist / composer John Serry, Sr. and saxophonist and later actor Sid Caesar. The former peak of his career was his appearance as a conductor at the Academy Awards for the film The Big Broadcast of 1938 WC Fields and Bob Hope in 1939.

Fields' Orchestra was a then-common Sweet band played dance music for ballrooms. 1942 Fields changed but the character of the orchestra, abolished the designation " Rippling Rhythm" and henceforth worked with a pure woodwind section without the usual brass. This formation, Shep Fields and His New Music with the Bandvokalisten and later actor Ken Curtis was, however, granted the unusual clarinet and flute sound with little success. Fields returned in 1947 to his Rippling Rhythm - cast back, then played in Glen Iceland Casino in New Rochelle and 1948 in the Ice Terrace Room of the Hotel New Yorker; both performances were transmitted from the radio.

In 1953 he released the big band to finally and moved to Houston, Texas where he worked as a disc jockey and occasionally performing with a band in the Shamrock Hotel. In 1963 he founded with his brother in Los Angeles talent agency Creative Artists. In 1977, he took again for Reader's Digest on with an orchestra. He died there seventy years; Fields' grave is located on the Mount Hebron Cemetery in New York.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm, 1940, Volumes 1 and 2 ( Hindsight )
  • Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm (CCM, 1947)

Filmography

  • You Came To My Rescue ( 1937) - Director: Dave Fleischer
  • The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) - director Mitchell Leisen, with WC Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope
  • Kreisler Bandstand (1951 ) - TV Series ( Director: Perry Lafferty )
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