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

[Taylor Bowie]

Hmm...Id' read this in Klink but had forgotten.  I've never seen any other 
mention of his "long run in KC or any of those other places.  I'm not saying 
Klink is wrong,  but I know that Pendarvis mostly stuck to the coast,  where 
all of his records were made (I think...too lazy to go in the other room to 
look in Rust).

He made the handful of Columbias but most of his records (several dozen) 
were for the not-sold-to-public MacGregor,  used for radio broadcasts. 
Those are his best records....just as some of the the Anson Weeks MacGregors 
are his best sides.

Thanks for digging up that info,  Al.

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
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> 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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