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Biography
He was born on June 23, 1911 in Budapest, Hungary.
References
- "Great Depression a gold mine for musicians". The Register-Guard. February 15, 2002. Retrieved 2010-05-16.
When trumpet star and jazz arranger Lou Halmy looks back on the Great Depression of the 1930s, it doesn't seem depressing at all. 'I was lucky,' the 91-year-old Eugene musician says. 'I was playing with a band and working all the time. We had a steady job, which was the rarest thing in music.' While many people were standing in bread lines and living in shanty camps, Halmy was inside New York's posh Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, cheering people up by playing his horn in one of the most popular dance bands of the era: Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm ...
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Halmy was born in Budapest, Hungary, and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 2. He made his mark as a trumpet player with East Coast outfits including Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra, a society band that played on 'The Woodbury Hour With Bob Hope' and in the 'The Big Broadcast of 1938,' a film starring Hope, W.C. Fields and Dorothy Lamour.
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