Detlef Tewes Boris Bagger Charlie Ventura Live Concert Sound of the times

Detlef Tewes, www.detlef-tewes.de & Boris Bagger, http are playing Charlie Ventura, Sound of the times in a Live concert in Kraichtal, 8.5.2009 arranged by Detlef Tewes and Boris Björn Bagger Prof. Boris Björn Bagger is teaching guitar at rhe university of music in Karlsruhe / Germany, Hochschule für Musik, Musikhochschule, www.hfm-karlsruhe.de Recorded with Sony HDR CX 11 and Sony DCR Sr 190 produced by edition 49, music publishing company, http sheet music and CDs of Detlef Tewes & Boris Bagger available here www.edition49.de

Jack Smith (May 31,1898 – May 13,1950) was known as “Whispering” Jack Smith and was a popular baritone singer in the 1920s and 1930s who made a brief come-back in the late 1940s. He was a popular radio and recording artist who occasionally appeared in films. He began his professional career in 1915, when he sang with a quartet at a theater in the Bronx. After service in World War I, he got a job in 1918 as a “song plugger” for the Irving Berlin Music Publishing Company. He was a pianist at a radio station when he got his singing break substituting for a singer who failed to show up. Smith was exclusively on the radio, but beginning in 1925, he began making records. He also started performing on-stage on the vaudeville circuit. In 1927, Jack Smith was touring England, performing with the Blue Skies Theater Company singing tunes such as “Manhattan” by Rogers and Hart and songs by Gershwin, when he was suddenly replaced by a new all girl singing trio, the Hamilton Sisters & Fordyce. Smith returned to New York and eventually went to work for NBC Radio. Whispering Jack Smith – Sunshine (1928)