[78-L] Mills Blue Rhythm to PAUL PENDARVIS?

[simmonssomer]

Here's what Klink sez:

Paul Pendarvis
Born 1907 Enid, Oklahoma
"Leader of good stylized sweet band of 30's. Featured changes int tonal 
color as sidemen doubled many instruments to achieve different voicings.
Arrangements and ensemble sound distinctive. Leader's violin featured. Band 
theme "My Sweetheart." ........graduated UCLA 1930. Three years in bond(sic) 
busines also played bits in movies. May 1933 newly formed band hit in first 
job in Kansas City..............., had long run. Bookings in Chicago 1934. 
Popular runs in Cincinatti, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Buffalo. Most 
popularity in mid-30's but musical peak around 1939-40. Disbanded early 
40's. Later musical director of Los Angeles radio station, led radio combos 
briefly."
Recorded twelve titles for Columbia... Col2973-D, 2974,3025,3032,3082 and 
3091.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold Aherne" <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>
To: <78-L at 78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Mills Blue Rhythm to PAUL PENDARVIS?


The ever-trusty Ancestry.com reveals (in its Social Security records) a Paul 
Pendarvis
who lived from 2 December 1907 to January 1987, who could very well be the 
man
in question. The book "American Big Bands" by William F. Lee (Hal Leonard, 
2005)
gives the date and place of birth as Oklahoma, 1907. There was a Paul 
Pendarvis
in the 1920 census, age 12, living in Enid, OK with parents Earl and Pleiade 
(I'm
absolutely not kidding!) and sister Dorothy.

As for the orchestra itself, mentions of it appear the LA Times society 
columns
by April 1928. The 22 June 1935 edition of that paper noted that the band 
had
contracted to spend the summer at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco; they had
opened there on 5 May and would have additional engagements there in 1936
and 1937, per newspaper accounts of the time. Mentions of him are rare after
1941, but it seems that he was still conducting a band in LA in the mid 50s,
according to LAT references on 4 Sep 1953 and 16 Dec 1957.

-Harold

--- On Tue, 2/3/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
Subject: [78-L] Mills Blue Rhythm to PAUL PENDARVIS?
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 12:40 PM


BTW I am always looking for information, photos,  etc. related to the Paul
Pendarvis Orch.

Taylor  (who also has and likes stuff ranging from Morton and Oliver to
Miles and Bird)






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