ArtistInfo

Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians

Band,
Pop and Jazz

Fred Waring (June 9, 1900 – July 29, 1984) was a popular musician, bandleader and radio-television personality, sometimes referred to as "America's Singing Master" and "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing." He was also a promoter, financial backer and namesake of the Waring Blender, the first modern electric blender on the market. Raised in his father's Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, music store, Waring studied violin as a youth and was a member of his high school glee club. He formed his first professional band around 1916, a six-man string outfit called Waring's Banjazztra. After graduating from college he took the group to Detroit, where it began to attract the attention of the local music crowd. He later dropped banjo from the line-up and changed the name of the group to the Pennsylvanians. The newly-named orchestra soon became a favorite on the collegiate circuit. Their first recording, ''Sleep,'' on the Victor label in 1924, was a tremendous success. Waring's orchestra supposedly has the distinction of being the first to record a George Gershwin tune, the first to record a rumba, and the first dance band to record with a vocal chorus. Aside from Victor the group also released material on the Columbia label. Vocalists included Stuart Churchill and Waring's own brother, Tom.

Members

	The Pennsylvanians
	Fred Waring voc 1900-1984 US
	The Waring Girls
	Nelson Keller voc
	George Culley tr
	Tom Waring voc US
	Fred Buck GB
	Jim Gilliland tb
	Si Sharp sax
	Poley McClintock voc
	Bill Townsend voc
	Fred Campbell
	Elton Cockerill sax
	Johnnie "Scat" Davis voc, tr *1910 BR
	Gene Conklin
	Murray Kellner vn US
	Stuart Churchill voc
	Clare Hanlon voc
	Ed Radell b
	Virgil Davis
	Will Morgan voc
	D. Wade Schlegel
	Lou Bonnies
	Fred Culley voc
	Jim Mullen b
	Francis Foster voc, bvoc
	Earl Gardner sax
	Fred Campbell
	Eddie Radelman b