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    title, including The Roy Smeck Trio, The Roy Smeck Quartet, Roy Smeck and his Vita Trio, Roy Smeck's Novelty Orchestra and Roy Smeck and His Music Men....
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  • was chairman until 1940. In 1928, Harmony introduced the first of many Roy Smeck models, and went on to become the largest producer in the U.S. They sold...
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  • tapping. While one of the earliest players known to use the technique was Roy Smeck (who used a tapping style on a ukulele in the 1932 film Club House Party)...
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    111, in dreadnought size, between 1921 and 1930, including #19734 for Roy Smeck. According to Mike Longworth, the design for the "111" size, later to...
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    traditional Turkish folk music. The first example on the guitar was in 1932 by Roy Smeck. In 1979, Roth left Scorpions to begin his own power trio, named "Electric...
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  • (April), Victor Young and His Orchestra (April), Elton Britt (September), Roy Smeck and His Serenaders and Vera Lynn. As of 2019[update], in all there are...
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    Theater's 2021 album A View from the Top of the World. Brahms guitar Roy Smeck, popular player of the octachorda from the 1920s onwards Ten-string guitar...
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    vaudeville performers such as Roy Smeck and Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards. On April 15, 1923, at the Rivoli Theater in New York City, Smeck appeared, playing the...
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    Other artists to make eminent use of the banjolele were Wendell Hall and Roy Smeck in the United States, and Billy "Uke" Scott in Great Britain. In P.G....
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  • Hymie Shertzer, All the King's Saxes (Disneyland, 1958) Roy Smeck, The Magic Ukulele of Roy Smeck Wizard of the Strings (ABC-Paramount, 1959) Lou Stein...
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  • Weber. The group's songs appeared along with artists like Ralph Haines, Roy Smeck, Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys. The group appeared in early talking motion...
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    appeared briefly in the 1985 Academy Award-nominated documentary film on Roy Smeck, Wizard of the Strings. He died in Long Beach, California on January 29...
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    instrumentalists and opera stars. The only "pop music" artist was guitarist Roy Smeck and the only actual "talkie" was the short film that opened the program:...
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  • Sisters, the Three X Sisters and The Andrews Sisters. It was recorded by Roy Smeck and presented by The Lawrence Welk Show on television. Comedy acts with...
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    (Mercury, 1956) Lou Stein, Saloon Favorites (Mercury, 1957) Roy Smeck, The Magic Ukulele of Roy Smeck (ABC Paramount, 1959) Cootie Williams, Cootie Williams...
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  • Allen Shelton B. F. Shelton Rick Shubb Matokie Slaughter Langhorne Slim Roy Smeck Arthur Smith Chloe Smith Hobart Smith Jim Smoak Leah Song Roger Sprung...
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  • Radio's Morning Edition, July 2007 Roy Smeck: The Wizard of the Strings (1983). Mel Bay (guitar) plays a duet with Roy Smeck (ukulele) at 8:00, plus a banjo...
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  • Pingitore, who played tenor for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra through 1948, and Roy Smeck, early radio and recording pioneer, author of many instructional books...
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  • "Degenocide" 11 October 1988 (1988-10-11) 3 "The D-Generation Salute to Roy Smeck" 1 November 1988 (1988-11-01) 4 "D-Generation Country Homestead"...
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  • documentary film about Roy Smeck, directed by Peter Friedman. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. Roy Smeck as himself "NY Times:...
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  • [The music has gone] from mostly sea shanties and Hawaiian music à la Roy Smeck meets Pee-wee Herman—still the main style for the show—in the early episodes...
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  • Brothers (1934) Dorothy Lamour (1944) Guy Lombardo (1949) Ames Brothers with Roy Smeck (1951) Les Paul and Mary Ford (1951) Annette Funicello (1960 and 2008)...
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  • Elliott Sharp Sonny Sharrock Brad Shepik Jimmy Shirley Ronnie Singer Roy Smeck Jarek Śmietana Floyd Smith Johnny Smith Richard Smith Terry Smith Ferenc...
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    occasionally used a tapping style on his single-neck, strummed guitar, as did Roy Smeck, George Van Eps, Barney Kessel and Harvey Mandell. Subsequent years have...
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    Overture to "Tannhäuser" 1926 Mischa Elman - "Humoresque" and "Gavotte" 1926 Roy Smeck The Wizard of the String in His Pastimes 1926 Marion Talley, with the...
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  • have recorded the song include: Al Bowlly (1931), Bert Ambrose (1931), Roy Smeck (1931), Light Crust Doughboys (1935), Bing Crosby (1938), Bob Wills And...
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  • 1955) Sue & Ralph Sharon, Mr & Mrs Jazz (Bethlehem, 1957) Roy Smeck, The Magic Ukulele of Roy Smeck, Wizard of the Strings (ABC-Paramount, 1959) Kirby Stone...
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  • Sainte-Marie Roy Sakuma Luthea Salom Max Schneider Billy "Uke" Scott Peter Sellers Christopher Sembroski Jake Shimabukuro Frank Sinatra Frank Skinner Roy Smeck Rebecca...
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    Roberts Dick Robertson Adrian Rollini Luis Russell Andy Sanella Singin' Sam Roy Smeck Phil Spitalny Eva Taylor Varsity Eight Joe Venuti Don Voorhees Jay Wilbur...
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  • AIDS-related complications. Ghulam Fareed Sabri, 64, Pakistani qawwali singer. Roy Smeck, 94, American musician. André Tchelistcheff, 92, American winemaker. Klaus...
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