Vincent Lopez
Lopez speaking! Vincent Lopez at radio microphone in the early 1920s
Background information
Birth name	Vincent Lopez
Born	December 30, 1895(1895-12-30)
Origin	Brooklyn, New York
Died	September 20, 1975 (aged 79)
Genre(s)	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Bandleader
Instrument(s)	Piano
Associated acts	Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Gloria Parker

Vincent Lopez (30 December 1895 – 20 September 1975) was a United States bandleader and pianist. Events 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. 1816 - The Treaty of St Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States A bandleader is the leader of a band of Musicians The term is most commonly though not exclusively used with a group that plays Popular music as A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers James "Jimmy" Dorsey ( February 29, 1904 &ndash June 12, 1957) was a prominent American Jazz Clarinetist Tommy Dorsey ( November 19 1905 &ndash November 26 1956) was an American Jazz Trombonist, Trumpeter Glorious Gloria Parker is an American Entertainer active during the Swing Era as a Bandleader of an All-female band, Gloria Events 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. 1816 - The Treaty of St Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A bandleader is the leader of a band of Musicians The term is most commonly though not exclusively used with a group that plays Popular music as A pianist (/'piənɪst/ is a Musician who plays the Piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces play with an ensemble or Orchestra

Vincent Lopez was born of Portuguese immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York^[1] and was leading his own dance band in New York City by 1917. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. The City of New York Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year In 1921 his band began broadcasting on the new medium of entertainment radio, which boosted the popularity of both himself and of radio. Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. He became one of America's most popular bandleaders, and would retain that status through the 1940s. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be

He began his radio programs by announcing "Lopez speaking!". His theme song was "Nola," Felix Arndt's novelty ragtime piece of 1915, and Lopez became so identified with it that he occasionally satirized it. Felix Arndt ( May 20, 1889 - October 16, 1918) was an American Pianist and Composer of Popular music. (His 1939 movie short for Vitaphone, Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra, features the entire band singing "Down with Nola. Vitaphone was a Sound film process used on features and nearly 2000 Short subjects produced by Warner Bros ") Lopez worked occasionally in feature films, notably The Big Broadcast (1932). He was also one of the very first bandleaders to work in Soundies movie musicals, in 1940. Soundies were an early version of the Music video: three-minute musical films produced by professional film crews in New York Chicago and Hollywood between 1940 He made additional Soundies in 1944.

Noted musicians who played in his band included Artie Shaw, Xavier Cugat, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Mike Mosiello and Glenn Miller. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky ( May 23, 1910 &ndash December 30, 2004) better known as Artie Shaw, was an American Jazz Xavier Cugat, born Francisco d'Asís Javier Cugat Mingall de Bru y Deleufo ( 1 January 1900 &ndash 27 October 1990) was a James "Jimmy" Dorsey ( February 29, 1904 &ndash June 12, 1957) was a prominent American Jazz Clarinetist Tommy Dorsey ( November 19 1905 &ndash November 26 1956) was an American Jazz Trombonist, Trumpeter Mike Mosiello (full name Michele Alphonso Mosiello) (December 2 1896-June 3 1953 was an Italian-born American Trumpet player Alton Glenn Miller ( March 1 1904 &ndash presumably December 15 1944) was an American Jazz musician and He also featured singers Keller Sisters and Lynch, Betty Hutton and Marion Hutton. The Keller Sisters and Lynch were a United States Pop music group of Singers of the 1920s and 1930s Betty Hutton (born Elizabeth June Thornburg, February 26, 1921 – March 11, 2007) was an American film Marion Thornburg, better known as Marion Hutton ( 10 March 1919, Battle Creek Michigan - 10 January 1987, Kirkland Lopez's longtime drummer was the irreverent Mike Riley, who popularized the novelty hit "The Music Goes Round and Round. "

Lopez's flamboyant style of piano playing influenced such later musicians Eddy Duchin and Liberace. Eddy Duchin ( April 1 1909 or 10 April 1910 - February 9 1951) was an American popular Pianist and Wladziu Valentino Liberace He had a twin who died at birth and he was born with a Caul, which in his family as in many societies was taken as a sign of genius and an exceptional

In 1941 Lopez's Orchestra began a residency at the Taft Hotel in Manhattan that would last 20 years. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 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 the early 1950s, Lopez hosted a radio program called Shake the Maracas in which audience members competed for small prizes by playing maracas with the orchestra. Radio programming is the content that is broadcast by Radio stations The original inventors of radio such as Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Maraca is also a genus of Tarantula. Maracas ( sometimes called rumba

Vincent Lopez died in Miami Beach, Florida.

References

1. ^ [1] Distinguished Americans & Canadians of Portuguese Descent

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