Biography
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Shep Fields
Real name: Saul Fieldman
Effective period / Period of releases: 1958
American dance bandleader, saxophonist (tenor) and clarinetist.Born: September 12, 1910 in Brooklyn, New York Died: February 23, 1981 in Los Angeles, California.
His band Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm orchestra charted 38 times in the U.S. between 1936 and 1943. The group had seven #1's including "Did I Remember?" and "In the Chapel in the Moonlight" in 1936, and "That Old Feeling" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" and "Thanks for the Memory" in 1937, and "Cathedral in the Pines" #1 in 1938, and "South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)" #1 in 1939.