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Book and Ephemera Auction - Juv. Series, etc.
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Item: Hand-signed prom invitation
Celebrities: Kenny Sargent and Glen Gray Text: names in pencil Date: June 3, 1938 Biography: Kenny Sargent (born 1906, died 1969) was an American saxophone player, singer and disc jockey. Sargent was the Casa Loma Orchestra's primary vocalist. He also played the saxophone with the band. He left the orchestra band in 1943 to begin a career as a disc jockey. He was a well known radio personality in the Dallas, Texas area at radio stations KLIF and WRR in the 1950s and 1960s. Glen Gray Knoblauch, better known as Glen Gray, (June 7, 1900 [2] – August 23, 1963, Plymouth, Massachusetts) was a jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra. Gray was born to Lurdie P. and Agnes (Gray) Knoblauch in Metamora, Illinois. His father was a lifelong railroad worker who died when Glen was two years of age. [3] His widowed mother married George H. DeWilde who was a few years younger than she was. When he was 13 years old, Gray organized a group known as Spike's Jazz Band. Gray graduated from Roanoke High School. He is said to have joined the army at seventeen and two years later he was living at home with his family. He was employed as a bill clerk for the railroad. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University but left to work for the Santa Fe Railroad. In 1927 his Orange Blossoms Band was renamed as the Casa Loma Orchestra, after Casa Loma in Toronto, where the band played for eight months. He collaborated with the jazz musician Jean Goldkette and with trumpeter/arranger Salvador Camarata. Ill health forced Glen to retire from touring in 1950. In 1956 he went back into the studio to record some LPs which recreated the sounds of the big band era.a. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $4.50 ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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