Harry F. Reser (17 January 1896 – 27 September 1965) was an American banjo player and bandleader. Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. The banjo is a Stringed instrument developed by enslaved Africans in the United States, adapted from several African instruments Born in Piqua, Ohio, Reser was best known as the leader of The Clicquot Club Eskimos. Piqua is a city in Miami County, Ohio, United States. The population was 20738 at the 2000 census. The Clicquot Club Eskimos was a popular musical variety radio show first heard in 1923 featuring a banjo orchestra directed by Harry Reser.
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Reser was regarded by some as the best banjoist of the 1920s. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada He played with midwestern dance bands, relocating to Buffalo, New York in 1920. Buffalo (ˈbʌfəloʊ is the second largest city in New York State. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Arriving in Manhattan the following year, he became an in-demand session musician during the early 1920s. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York
In 1925, he found fame as the director for NBC's Clicquot Club Eskimo Orchestra, continuing with that weekly half-hour until 1935. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. At the same time, he also led other bands using pseudonyms. "Harry Reser and His Six Jumping Jacks," with vocals by Tom Stacks, were the zany forerunners to comedy bands like Spike Jones and His City Slickers. Tom Stacks was the lead singer drummer and sound effects man for many of Harry Reser 's late 1920s Jazz and novelty bands that included "The Six Jumping Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones ( December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was a popular musician and bandleader specializing in performing
Harry Reser played "Tiger Rag" and "You Hit the Spot" in the Vitaphone musical short Harry Reser and His Eskimos (1936). " Tiger Rag " is a Jazz standard, originally recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in 1917 Vitaphone was a Sound film process used on features and nearly 2000 Short subjects produced by Warner Bros Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Reser remained active in music for the rest of his life, leading TV studio orchestras and playing with Broadway theatre orchestras. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located In 1960 he appeared with Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee and Buster Keaton in "A 70th Birthday Salute to Paul Whiteman" on TV's The Revlon Revue. Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby ( May 3, 1903 &ndash October 14, 1977) was an Academy Award winning American Popular Peggy Lee ( May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American Jazz and popular music singer and Songwriter Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton ( October 4 1895 &ndash February 1 1966) was an Academy Award -winning American Paul Whiteman ( March 28, 1890 &ndash December 29, 1967) was an American orchestral He wrote several instructional books for the banjo, guitar, and ukulele. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles The ukulele (ˌjʉːkəˈlɛɪli from ʻukulele /ˌʔukuˈlele/ variantly spelled ukelele (particularly in the UK) or alternatively abbreviated uke
In 1965 Reser died of a heart attack in the orchestra pit of the Broadway stage version of Fiddler on the Roof just prior to a performance. Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set He was inducted into the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame in 1999. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar)
Reser revivals
In 2002, banjoist Michael Mason portrayed Harry Reser in Heartland Chautauqua, a tent-show recreation of a 1920s traveling Chautauqua show at Nifong Park in Missouri. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the educational summer-camp movement For other uses of "Chautauqua" see Chautauqua (disambiguation. Missouri ( or) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee Guitarist Howard Alden switched to a banjo to recreate the sound of Harry Reser in his recording Howard Alden Plays the Music of Harry Reser (Stomp Off Records, 1988). Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Alden recorded 15 compositions written by Reser during the years 1922 to 1935.
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- Pseudonyms of the Harry Reser Orchestra
- The Maneater: "Jazz Age brought to life": Michael Mason as Harry Reser
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