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4 unusual facts about Casa Loma Orchestra


Casa Loma Orchestra

The band had adopted the Casa Loma name by the time of its first recordings in 1929, shortly after it played an eight-month engagement at Casa Loma Hotel in Toronto.

Manager Cork O'Keefe was made a Vice President in the corporation and arranged bookings in venues such as Glen Island Casino, which they helped popularize, and the Essex House Hotel, that lead to their radio appearances.

Pee Wee Hunt

Pee Wee Hunt was the co-founder and featured trombonist with the Casa Loma Orchestra, but he left the group in 1943 to work as a Hollywood radio disc jockey before joining the Merchant Marine near the end of World War II.

Spud Murphy

At the same time he also contributed charts to the Casa Loma Orchestra, Isham Jones, Les Brown and many others.



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