#Let it snow song vaughn monroe series
In the spring of 1941 he gained national attention with an appearance at Frank Dailey’s Meadowbrook in Cedar Grove, N.J., one of the premier venues for swing bands, and he performed from the hall in the first remote broadcast on the national radio series Matinee at Meadowbrook on May 24. (After two years he was promoted to the main label.) His first hit, ’There I Go” (music by Irving Weiser, lyrics by Hy Zart), peaked in the Top Ten in December 1940. Monroe signed to RCA Victor Records and began recording for its discount- priced Bluebird subsidiary. On April 2 he married Marian Baughman they had two daughters. In 1939 he organized his own sweet society orchestra for an engagement at Seller’s Ten Acres, a roadhouse in Wayland, Mass., then dissolved it and reorganized a more swingoriented unit that debuted in April 1940. He joined the orchestra of bandleader and booker Jack Marshard in Boston in 1936 in 1937 he began fronting one of Marshard’s bands. from 1933 to 1936 while taking courses at the New England Cons, of Music.
He dropped out of school to play with the orchestra of Austin Wylie in Cleveland, then worked with Larry Funk’s Orch. of Technology, which he attended from 1929 to 1932. Although he aspired to become an opera singer, he began singing and playing in dance bands around Pittsburgh to help pay for his tuition at the Carnegie Inst. and Mabel Louisa Maahs Monroe, Vaughn Monroe grew up in Wise, where he took up the trumpet at age 11 and won a statewide contest on the instrument at 15. All told, Monroe had 25 Top-Ten hits between 19. His sonorous baritone did well with ballads such as “There! I’ve Said It Again” and “I Wish I Didn’t Love You So” and worked equally well on specialty material such as the seasonal “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” and the Western-themed “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend),” both of which were chart-topping hits for him.
As both an orchestra leader and a solo singer, Monroe successfully straddled the Swing Era and the “sing era” that followed it in popular music. Monroe, Vaughn, American singer, bandleader, and trumpeter b.
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