[78-L] Pete Woolery

[Kristjan Saag]

Don,
It seems Pete Woolery went into music publishing business after his 
recording career.
In 1935 he still led his own orchestra in a radio broadcast on New York 
AM station WABC (not he WABC of today - an entirely different station), 
the year after he married another radio vocalist, WCAU's (Philadelphia) 
Helen Barrett. And there's mention of him in Billboard from the early 
1940's on as a song plugger for different New York and Philadelphia 
publishing companies. See:
http://www.otrr.org/FILES/Magz_pdf/Radio%20Mirror/Radio%20Mirror%203611.pdf

https://books.google.se/books?id=hgwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=%22pete+woolery%22+billboard&source=bl&ots=MiuS3z_X3X&sig=NFHMI11_j7ogW4-atED_K1qBRDw&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAmoVChMIyqDeqIGbyQIVxCkPCh1XVw_h#v=onepage&q=%22pete%20woolery%22%20billboard&f=false

Odd information is provided here, where Pete Woolery is said to have 
been a pseudonym and a half brother of..Igor Stravinsky!
http://www.butterfunk.com/video-play-894862/my-heart-is-bluer-than-your-eyes-cherie1929pete-woolery.htm

I find it unlikely that any of Stravinsky's three brothers - the 
youngest, Guri, being born in 1884 - could have been a successful young 
tenor in the late 1920's.

Good luck with further investigation!
Kristjan


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