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Bandleader and pianist Anson Weeks was born in 1896 in Oakland, California, across the bay from San Francisco.He assembled his first band in 1924.
Early on, the Weeks orchestra played in hotels along the West Coast.
By 1927 the band had gained enough notoriety to be signed to a seven-year engagement
at the popular Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco.
Columbia records offered him a recording contract in 1928.
He was a pioneer of early Jazz and Big Band music.
During the band’s engagement at the Mark Hopkins, Weeks began live radio broadcasts
from the hotel in 1930 for the NBC West Coast network.
These ran nightly for a year and his popular “Lucky Strike Magic Carpet” show soon followed,
airing Coast-to-Coast on NBC starting in 1931.
By the early 1940’s, the Weeks band was traveling to perform at venues
across the nation (so-called “one night stands”).
He retired for a while from music in the late 1950’s, but by the early ’60s he was back on the bandstand.
He continued to lead the band until succumbing to emphysema in 1969, one week before his 73rd birthday.
This group of CD’s contain 5 “Live” Radio Broadcasts on each CD.
Each broadcast is designated a quarter hour in length, but in reality
they are about 12 minutes each.
The other 3 minutes were probably taken up by local radio commercials.
All selections were digitally restored by Vintage Recordings.
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Anson Weeks and His Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra
(“Live” Radio Broadcasts 1932) [Encore 5]
Several Items will have a
symbol next to a song.You can listen to a sound clip with the windows media player.
Track Listing
01 Broadcast 1: 1- Whistle And Blow Your Blues Away, 2 - You’re Blasé,
3 - Someday I’ll Find You, 4 - You Said It, 5 - Thank Your Father, 6 - My Hearts At Ease
02 Broadcast 2: 1 - You’re Blasé, 2 - Rain Rain Go Away, 3 - Say It Isn’t So,
4 - Me Minus You, 5 - Fine And Dandy
03 Broadcast 3: 1 - You’re Telling Me, 2 - Say It Isn’t So, 3 - Don’t Tell A Soul,
4 - Someone To Care For, 5 - You Little So And So
04 Broadcast 4: 1 - You Try Somebody Else, 2 - Who’s Your Little Who Zis,
3 - You Do Something To Me, 4 - I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,
5 - With A Song In My Heart, 6 - Ohhh Ahhh
05 Broadcast 5: 1 - You’re My Everything, 2 - Who’s Your Little Who Zis,
3 - You Said It, 4 - Liza, 5 - Walking On Air