- Born Name: Vincent Lopez
- Birthday: 1895-12-30 (Year-Month-Day)
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Vincent Lopez and his band in the early 1920s.Vincent Lopez (30 December 1895 – 20 September 1975) was an American bandleader and pianist.Vincent Lopez was born of Portuguese immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York and was leading his own dance band in New York City by 1917. On November 27, 1921 his band began broadcasting on the new medium of entertainment radio; the bands weekly 90-minute show on Newark, NJ station WJZ boosted the popularity of both himself and of radio. He became one of Americas most popular bandleaders, and would retain that status through the 1940s.He began his radio programs by announcing Lopez speaking!.His theme song was Nola, Felix Arndts novelty ragtime piece of 1915, and Lopez became so identified with it that he occasionally satirized it. (His 1939 movie short for Vitaphone, Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra, features the entire band singing Down with Nola.) Lopez worked occasionally in feature films, notably The Big Broadcast (1932). He was also one of the very first bandleaders to work in Soundies movie musicals, in 1940. He made additional Soundies in 1944.Noted musicians who played in his band included Artie Shaw, Xavier Cugat, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Mike Mosiello and Glenn Miller. He also featured singers Keller Sisters and Lynch, Betty Hutton and Marion Hutton. Lopezs longtime drummer was the irreverent Mike Riley, who popularized the novelty hit The Music Goes Round and Round.Lopezs flamboyant style of piano playing influenced such later musicians as Eddy Duchin and Liberace.In 1941 Lopezs Orchestra began a residency at the Taft Hotel in Manhattan that would last 20 years.In the early 1950s, Lopez along with Gloria Parker hosted a radio program broadcast from the Taft Hotel called Shake the Maracas in which audience members competed for small prizes by playing maracas with the orchestra.Vincent Lopez died in Miami Beach, Florida.[edit] Big Band/Swing Era MusicEarly In The Morning, recorded by Vincent Lopez on Columbia Records, lyrics and music by Gloria Parker.Here Comes That Mood, recorded by Vincent Lopez, music and lyrics by Gloria Parker.In Santiago by the Sea, recorded by Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra, music and lyrics by Gloria Parker.I Learned To Rumba, recorded by Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra, music and lyrics by Gloria Parker.My Dream Christmas, recorded by Vincent Lopez, lyrics and music by Gloria Parker.Shake The Maracas, name of a radio program on WABC hosted by Vincent Lopez and Gloria Parker, lyrics and music by Gloria Parker.When Our Country Was Born, recorded by Vincent Lopez, lyrics and music by Gloria Parker.[edit] References^ Distinguished Americans & Canadians of Portuguese Descent^ Pat Browne,The guide to United States popular culture. Popular Press, 2001, p.611. 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