It contains tracks recorded between 1928 and 1934 by Benny Goodman, Ben Pollack, Red Nichols, Ted Lewis, Irving Mills, Jack Pettis, Rube Bloom, The Charleston Chasers, and The Venuti-Lang All Star Orchestra.
Other artists followed, including the Mills Brothers, Boswell Sisters, Earl Hines, Ted Lewis, Isham Jones and the Dorsey Brothers.
This six-sided record set offers surprisingly accurate imitations of then-popular bands and singers, including lampoons of his former employees Goodman, Dorsey, and Shaw, as well as Guy Lombardo, Larry Clinton, Ted Lewis, Count Basie, and other "name" bandleaders.
Ted Lewis & HIS BAND 1929-1934 CBC1-074, 2002 (audio restoration by John R.T.Davis\ liner notes Marc Berresford)
Lewis Carroll | Ted Kennedy | Jerry Lee Lewis | Jerry Lewis | Ted Turner | Ted Nugent | Ted Williams | Lewis | C. S. Lewis | Carl Lewis | Ted Hughes | John Lewis | Ted Koppel | Sinclair Lewis | Huey Lewis and the News | Ted Kotcheff | Michael Lewis | Juliette Lewis | Lewis gun | Lewis & Clark College | TED (conference) | Lewis Hamilton | Lewis Carroll's | Daniel Day-Lewis | Ted Rall | Lennox Lewis | Ted Danson | Ted Berrigan | Huey Lewis | Ted Ray |
Initially, when the song's hopeful sentiment appealed to post-war North America, it was recorded by both singers and instrumentalists, including Morton Downey, Fritz Kreisler, Ted Lewis, and John Steel.
Duris Maxwell (born June 15, 1946), also known as Ted Lewis, is a Canadian drummer who has played with many bands, including Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, Powder Blues Band, Doucette, The Temptations, Jefferson Airplane, and Skylark.
During the 1950s, when there were numerous nightclub showroom venues throughout the nation, he was one of the top headliners, along with others, such as Sophie Tucker, Ted Lewis, Adam Lebensfeld, Jimmy Durante, and Joe E. Lewis, among others.