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Lou Halmy (June 23, 1911 - March 14, 2005) was a jazz musician and musical arranger with Shep Fields and appeared in the The Big Broadcast of 1938.

Biography

He was born on June 23, 1911 in Budapest, Hungary.

References

1. "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 ... {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
2. ^ "Musician, arranger Lou Halmy dies at 93". The Register-Guard. Retrieved 2010-05-16. 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. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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