Join Napster and access full-length songs on your phone, computer or home audio device. [3], Ted Lewis and His Orchestra were one of the featured entertainers at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition – Pageant of the Pacific on Treasure Island. Copyright © 2020 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. At the start of the 1920s, he was considered by many people without previous knowledge of jazz (that is to say, most of America) to be one of the leading lights of hot jazz.
He had chart topping singles covering a span of 12 years. Lewis himself played clarinet in what was often referred to as "gaspipe" style, overblowing and creating a shrill tone that was very useful on novelty tunes but frowned on by most players in most other settings (though as Rob Bamberger points out in his excellent essay on Lewis, the fingering and control involved in effective "gaspipe" clarinet was just as daunting as any more standard approach to the instrument). At the time, the band was shooting their first film, Is Everybody Happy?, a fictionalized retelling of Lewis' life story, for Warner Bros. (which had come to Lewis in search of a musical personality to film, in much the same manner that it had come to Jolson for The Jazz Singer in 1927). Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis (June 6, 1890 – … The Ted Lewis Museum, located across the street from where he was born, was dedicated on June 5, 1977.
This gave the effect of Lewis "speaking" the song spontaneously: "When ma' baby... when ma' baby smiles at me... gee, what a wonderful, wonderful light that comes to her eyes... look at that light, folks...". (57 artists), Released on The Monkey Doodle-Doo © 2020 OLDIES.com and its affiliates and partner companies. Ted Lewis was never considered a great, or even a good jazz player -- though he was a better player than he got credit for being -- and wasn't taken seriously as a singer, nor was most of the music that he recorded considered good jazz. COVID-19: Because of processes designed to ensure the safety of our employees, you may experience a delay in the shipping of your order. We don’t have any upcoming events for this artist right now. He soon recruited a young Chicago-based player, Frank Teschemacher, who was heavily influenced by the cornet playing of Bix Beiderbecke. The song was performed by Ted Lewis . A stint in business school did nothing to make him forget an entertainment career. Around 1928, Lewis noticed an usher named Eddie Chester mimicking his movements during his act.

They remained married for 56 years until the death of Ted. Lewis actually could play normally well without missed notes, as exemplified by his earliest records.


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