Musical history collection
67 evidence entries. Topic placement is a browsing aid; each entry states its own limits.
August 2, 1955 Drumright Derrick announces the August 4 KTVX-KTUL Bandwagon Revue at Way Park, 8:15 p.m., with Clauser and the Oklahoma Outlaws. It describes Big Red Jamboree on KTVX Channel 8 Fridays at 9 p.m.
Preserve the 1992 newspaper reference as a possible retrospective source for Love and Dennie/Denny, pending exact passage extraction and identity/date reconciliation.
OHS says band members obtained airplane-defense-plant jobs after moving to Tulsa in 1942.
August 2, 1955 Derrick names Clauser’s Cookson Hill Cats as a mountaineer quintet, listing Al, Tex Grooms, Jim Smittle, Bob [surname unclear in OCR] and Don Irving; instruments include guitars, fiddle, jugs and bass.
OHS dates a Savoy Ballroom engagement to 1942, reports more than 100 camp shows and 12 overseas broadcasts during wartime, and describes a smaller postwar band featuring Melvin Moore. It dates the In the Mood Top Ten success to 1959.
Same February 16, 1956 page announces Harry Vann combo for the Alpha Chi Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sweetheart Ball at the Blue Moon Ballroom, February 24.
February 16, 1956 Oklahoma Eagle reports over 300 guests danced to Jack Dalton’s orchestra at the Blue Moon Ballroom for the Coterie Club’s second annual pre-Valentine dance.
April 21, 1955 Bristow Citizen lists KVOO broadcasts at 12:15 weekdays and Saturdays. It announces a 45-minute Saturday home-show broadcast from the armory and a Monday Legion-sponsored dance at the hut.
OHS explicitly names KVOO and KRMG for McAuliffe’s success in the 1950s and 1960s.
Preserve Earlier research Basie/Byas, Andy Kirk, Jay McShann, Roy Milton/Solid Senders and Joe Liggins/Honeydrippers details as Oklahoma musician connections, plus Bob Wills finding-aid item dates and Fields Jr. succession claims as extraction leads.
Radio Wave lists Babe Moore and Her Orchestra at Ted Wilmot’s Club, Carleton Coon Jr. and orchestra at Hotel Tulsa, and George Collins and orchestra at Sun Rise Nite Club. It also reports Mac McCloud’s band played Tulsa University Club the prior Saturday.
February 28 and March 21, 1935 Radio Wave issues list Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys on KVOO at 12:30 p.m.
Preserve the Earlier research claim of a first six-piece band in 1922 as an archival biography lead.
February 28 and March 21, 1935 Radio Wave issues list the orchestra on KVOO at 2:30 p.m.; April 25 advertises the May 4 Tulsa Coliseum radio jamboree and dance benefiting Tulsa Civic Symphony.
September 29, 1921 Black Dispatch reports addition of Eugene Coy of Wichita Falls and an unnamed Chicago clarinetist, in its Aldridge Dancing Academy column.
University of Tulsa catalog describes a March 18, 1938–August 2, 1939 autograph book of musicians playing in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, naming Clarence Love, K.C. Rockets and Floyd Ray and His Orchestra.
May 18, 1922 Black Dispatch reports music supplied at Slaughter’s Hall banquet. October 5 issue reports accompaniment of Monette Moore at Aldridge Theatre on September 26.
Oklahoma Senate SR25, 2003 session, describes a Ritz Ballroom, Oklahoma City residency in the middle and late 1930s and associates Charlie Christian and Charles Waterford.
November 23, 1927 Derrick advertises Thanksgiving at Cain’s Dancing Academy; November 25 reports the Southern Revelers supplied the music the previous night.
December 11, 1929 Derrick announces that night’s Drumright Cain’s engagement, with Ted Wilmot and pianist Bobby Howard.
OHS places Anderson in Sheffield’s Oklahoma City band in 1939 with Charlie Christian and Hank Bridges.
Earlier research application/expected-visitor figures await relevant source text confirmation. No actual attendance or band count inferred.
Evidence period: 1920s/1930s; exact dates unresolved. Listed in Table 4, Oklahoma-based jazz bands (1920s/1930s), George O. Carney, Chronicles of Oklahoma 72(1), Spring 1994, p.10.
Evidence period: 1920s/1930s; exact dates unresolved. Listed in Table 4, Oklahoma-based jazz bands (1920s/1930s), George O. Carney, Chronicles of Oklahoma 72(1), Spring 1994, p.10.
Evidence period: 1920s/1930s; exact dates unresolved. Listed in Table 4, Oklahoma-based jazz bands (1920s/1930s), George O. Carney, Chronicles of Oklahoma 72(1), Spring 1994, p.10.
Evidence period: 1920s/1930s; exact dates unresolved. Listed in Table 4, Oklahoma-based jazz bands (1920s/1930s), George O. Carney, Chronicles of Oklahoma 72(1), Spring 1994, p.10.
Evidence period: 1920s/1930s; exact dates unresolved. Listed in Table 4, Oklahoma-based jazz bands (1920s/1930s), George O. Carney, Chronicles of Oklahoma 72(1), Spring 1994, p.10.
Evidence period: 1920s/1930s; exact dates unresolved. Listed in Table 4, Oklahoma-based jazz bands (1920s/1930s), George O. Carney, Chronicles of Oklahoma 72(1), Spring 1994, p.10.
Evidence period: 1920s/1930s; exact dates unresolved. Listed in Table 4, Oklahoma-based jazz bands (1920s/1930s), George O. Carney, Chronicles of Oklahoma 72(1), Spring 1994, p.10.
Evidence period: 1920s/1930s; exact dates unresolved. Listed in Table 4, Oklahoma-based jazz bands (1920s/1930s), George O. Carney, Chronicles of Oklahoma 72(1), Spring 1994, p.10.
Evidence period: 1920s/1930s; exact dates unresolved. Listed in Table 4, Oklahoma-based jazz bands (1920s/1930s), George O. Carney, Chronicles of Oklahoma 72(1), Spring 1994, p.10.
Evidence period: 1920s/1930s; exact dates unresolved. Listed in Table 4, Oklahoma-based jazz bands (1920s/1930s), George O. Carney, Chronicles of Oklahoma 72(1), Spring 1994, p.10.
Evidence period: 1920s/1930s; exact dates unresolved. Listed in Table 4, Oklahoma-based jazz bands (1920s/1930s), George O. Carney, Chronicles of Oklahoma 72(1), Spring 1994, p.10.
Evidence period: 1951. The March 22 Oklahoma Eagle entertainment column refers to J. D. and his combo at the Flamingo.
An April 14, 1960 Oklahoma Eagle advertisement names Bill Black Orchestra; page OCR includes Thursday, April 21, 10 p.m.–2 a.m. and a ballroom address at 3520 E. 31st Place.
The February 18, 1960 Oklahoma Eagle announces James Moody orchestra under contract for the April 8 Debutante Ball at Cimarron Ballroom, with vocalist Eddie Jefferson.
Earlier research Oklahoma appearance retained for source recovery; not added to resident-band totals.
Reported performing for a Muskogee ball, with Launelia Bell at piano.
Earlier research Oklahoma appearance retained for source recovery; not added to resident-band totals.
Born in Nacogdoches, Texas, and raised in Taft; reject the dossier’s Oklahoma birthplace.
OHS independently states the first-Black-band-at-Cain’s claim.
The 1952 report identifies him as an orchestra leader.
Earlier research Oklahoma appearance retained for source recovery; not added to resident-band totals.
The 1952 report identifies him as an orchestra leader.
Named for a March 5–6, 1953 Tulsa chorus production.
Earlier research Oklahoma appearance retained for source recovery; not added to resident-band totals.
OHS dates the band's move to Tulsa to 1942 and describes late-1940s KTUL broadcasts and separation in the 1950s. The Oklahoma name predates the move to Oklahoma.
The Journal Record, June 3, 1999, retrospectively dates organization to 1945 and describes WKY and Skirvin Persian Room work.
The compilation credits Let's Paint the Town Red and I Hate Myself to this billing.
The Church Studio National Register nomination, PDF p. 15, identifies this Cain's house band in its late-1950s discussion.
OHS documents Tulsa broadcasts from 1934 and the July 1942 transfer of Tulsa activities. The report understates later Oklahoma activity: OHS also describes a 1958 Tulsa-band takeover. Record separate periods, not a 1942 permanent Oklahoma endpoint.
Bear Family's retrospective identifies the Tulsa group, Nitecap Club residency, and a 1957 recording arrangement.
Existing Fields and Royal Entertainers records remain separate but related. Retain Smithsonian first-at-Cain's claim as a source lead; the supplied report does not establish a seamless renaming or a dated transition.
Rocky Frisco's first-person retrospective places him at 1957 Flamingo Lounge jams with Flash Terry's band.
The National Register nomination identifies the group and Russell/Cale participation; Frisco recalls joining Gene Crose's band in 1957.
OHS documents Tulsa reorganization, assumption of KVOO and Cain's duties in 1942, and the end of KVOO shows in 1958.
The compilation credits multiple recordings to Johnny Cale Quintette.
OHS documents McAuliffe's postwar Tulsa band and its later Cimarron Boys name after purchase of the ballroom.
Same candidate as Earlier research item 6, with the name relationship stated by OHS. Later New Cimarron Boys are not automatically the same organization.
OHS documents a 1941 move to California and adoption of the Night Riders name, a 1947 Oklahoma City return, and a 1957 Ozark Jubilee engagement and name change.
The compilation credits Dream Lover, Kansas City and Tallahassee Lassie to this name.
1947 concert-series history already represented. The modern jazz branch is not assigned a 1947 founding date.
Church Studio history dates Jo-Baby/Lovin' at Night recording to 1957, with Gates and Russell. National Register history also identifies the group and Chuck Berry backing appearance.
The Carnegie Herald, August 24, 1960, p. 1 names the Willie Wiredhand Serenaders and the Daniels/Driver quartet, and advertises a September 3 fair appearance.
Leon Russell estate biography and National Register history identify the Tulsa group and Jerry Lee Lewis touring connection.
Jim Downing's October 8, 2018 Tulsa Today account says Markham had formed the band by 1958 and describes changing personnel.
The Tulsa 1957–1961 compilation track list credits the Tri Lads on Always Be True and Cherry Pie.
