Roy Smeck
Настоящее имя: Roy Smeck
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Banjo, uke and (Hawaiian) lap steel guitar player. Born: 6 February 1900 Died: 5 April 1994 Roy was born in 1900 in Reading, PA. In 1926 he appeared in one of the first sound films ever made by Warner Bros./Vitaphone. Roy invented the Vita-Uke marketed by the Harmony Company. He also put his name to several other uke, guitar, Hawaiian guitar, steel guitar, and banjo models made by Harmony, and made over 500 recordings for Edison, Victor, Columbia, Decca, Crown, RCA and others. He wrote instruction/method books for guitar, Hawaiian guitar, uke and banjo by the dozens; arranged innumerable(?) tunes for the uke; and made the first multiple-soundtrack movie for Paramount Pictures. Roy played at FDR's presidential inaugural ball in 1933; George VI's coronation review in 1937; and toured and played in Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, Canada, Puerto Rico, Korea, and, of course, Hawaii. Roy recorded hundreds of songs, on his own and with other groups. Many are on 78rpm records, and a good number can be found on LPs.
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Участие в группах:
- Roy Smeck And His Hawaiian Serenaders
- Roy Smeck And His Dixie Syncopators
- Roy Smeck's Trio
- Roy Smeck And His Paradise Islanders
- Roy Smeck And His All-Star Serenaders
- Roy Smeck's Hawaiians
- Roy Smeck And The Music Men
- Roy Smeck And His Serenaders
- Dizzy Trio
- Hobsie Trio
- Roy Smeck and His Paradise Serenaders
- Roy Smeck's Novelty Orchestra
- Roy Smeck & His Orchestra
- Roy Smeck And His Tropical Serenaders
- Roy Smeck And His Island Quartet
Вариации названий:
Alabama Joe
Dixie Sam