Effective period / Period of releases: 1929 - 1945

Born July 3, 1903 in New York
Died 1979
American jazz and popular music singer. From 1928 recorded prolifically with leaders such as Ben Pollack (1928), Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra (1929), Red Nichols (1929-1932), Duke Ellington and Andy Kirk (1930), Benny Goodman and Fletcher Henderson (1931) and Clarence Williams (1934). He also recorded as leader of studio bands.
From mid-1940s concentrated on writing songs of his own.