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Date Posted: 14:45:11 11/26/11 Sat
Author: Joe H.
Subject: Re: Jay C. Flippen [1899-1971] (71) / "the Howard Lanin Orchestra" / Purple Cow
In reply to: Tim 's message, "Re: Jay C. Flippen [1899-1971] (71)" on 00:18:16 11/25/11 Fri

Hey Tim, Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Lanin "Howard Lanin (1897 - 1991) was an American bandleader, one of the most successful in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area in the early 20th century. Lanin was called, 'The King of Society Music.'"

His brother's page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lanin reads: "Sam (C.) Lanin (September 4, 1891 - May 5, 1977) was an American jazz bandleader.

Lanin's brothers, Howard and Lester, were also bandleaders, and all of them had sustained, successful careers in music. Lanin was one of ten children born to Russian-Jewish immigrants who emigrated to Philadelphia in the decade of the 1900s. Sam played clarinet and violin while young, and in 1912 he was offered a spot playing in Victor Herbert's orchestra, where he played through World War I. After the war he moved to New York City and began playing at the Roseland Ballroom in late 1918. There he established the Roseland Orchestra; this ensemble recorded for the Columbia Gramophone Company in the early 1920s. . .

He had a rotating cast of noted musicians playing with him, including regular appearances from . . . Jimmy Dorsey, (and) Tommy* Dorsey, . . . . "

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Dorsey of: "Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956[1]) was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing.[2] He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey.[3] . . . Future bandleader Glenn Miller was a member of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in 1934 and 1935. . . As Dorsey became successful he made business decisions in the music industry. He loaned Glenn Miller money to launch Miller's successful band of 1938,[48] but Dorsey saw the loan as an investment, entitling him to a percentage of Miller's income. When Miller balked at this, the angry Dorsey got even by sponsoring a new band led by Bob Chester**, and hiring arrangers who deliberately copied Miller's style and sound. . . His biggest hit was "I'll Never Smile Again", featuring Frank Sinatra on vocals, which was number one for twelve weeks on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1940. . .On November 26, 1956, Tommy Dorsey died at age 51 in his Greenwich, Connecticut home. Dorsey had eaten a heavy meal and began choking in his sleep."

** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Chester "Bob Chester (March 20, 1908 — June 14, 1977) was an American jazz and pop music bandleader and tenor saxophonist.

Chester's stepfather ran General Motors's Fisher Body Works . . . Chester's group, billed "The New Sensation of the Nation," had its own radio show on CBS briefly in the fall of 1939. The fifteen-minute program aired from the Hotel van Cleve *** in Dayton, Ohio late on Thursday nights (actually 12:30 am Friday morning, Eastern Time); the September 21, 1939 edition can be heard on the famous One Day In Radio tapes, archived by Washington D.C. station WJSV. . . The orchestra disbanded in the mid-1940s, due in part to the shrinking market for big band sound. Chester assembled another band for a short time in the early 1950s, but after it failed he retired from music and returned to Detroit to work for the rest of his life in auto manufacturing."

*** Hotel van Cleve http://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/board/board_topic/1550893/84082.htm of: "I believe the site is now a PMI parking lot for 60 cars. . . I came across a tablecloth that may have been my great-aunts. It is square with a wagon wheel in the middle of it that reads "Wagon Wheel Bar Hotel Van Cleve. . . The Hotel Van Cleve has a wonderful story about the design of the B-52 Bomber that took place in one of the rooms there over a weekend in October 1948. . .For brochures, send email to ftmckinley at yahoo dot com and I'll get back to you. Please type "Van Cleve" in subject line. . . If any of you are interested in the hotel Van Cleve and its history my father Edward Breen was the manager of the Van Cleve from 1938 until 1941 when he went off to the war. I am currently writing a book on his life that will be coming out this spring or summer I supect and there will be several photos and stories on the hotel as well as some of the famous people who stayed there during the 1930's. Edward Breen Jr. ( edwardbreen 4 posts
Nov 16, 2007 6:26 PM ) . . . I recently came across some silver Knives with the hotel van cleve engraved in the handle. Do you have any info on this find. ( deniset 1 post
Jun 19, 2008 5:45 PM ) . . . genealogy (from) Steve Koons, Dayton, Ohio wd8dcx at aol dot com . . . Go to this link and you can see a penny postcard of the hotel:
http://www.usgwarchives.org/oh/montgomery/postcards/ppcs-mont.html . . . ( gena0915 2 posts Jan 24, 2009 @ 8:22 +
8:29 PM = ) "I just found this website and would like to know if anyone who had interest in selling items from the Van Cleve Hotel still has any items for sale or any further information on the hotel or the Van Cleve family ...I am very interested please just let me know. . .My thanks in advance to any replies. You can email me at plevenhagen at wi.rr.com " [ see also: "I grew up in Dayton and would be interested in any Van Cleve Hotel memorabilia. Email me at vancleve at camtel dot net. Thanks in advance." ) & ( steelman9 2 posts Dec 22, 2009 7:31 PM ) "I worked at Wright Field, Dayton Ohio and often went to the Van Cleve Hotel and they had a contest to name the Coffee Shop and I was the one who suggested that the name be "The Purple Cow" and said I would rather see than be one. . . The Purple Cow served the finest waffles and ice cream."

Hey! The mascot of "William College" in MAss.achusetts where my father went to school was and still is: "The Purple Cow". What is it with this Purple Cow stuff? This the only other such purple colored cow I've ever heard about.

Joe

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[> [> [> Re: Jay C. Flippen [1899-1971] (71) / "the Howard Lanin Orchestra" / Purple Cow -- Tim, 00:24:13 11/27/11 Sun [1]

An amazing series of links and information as always, Joe.

Jimmy Dorsey also died young at age 53 in 1957, the year after the death of his brother Tommy Dorsey.

Reading about Bob Chester I see that David Rose worked on arrangements for Chester's band for a time. Of course Rose later played a vital role in the music of Bonanza and Little House.

Re the 2010 post by SWC; In the 1960s there was such a great community of character actors or "professional guest stars." It's always fun spotting them in old movies and TV shows.


Tim

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