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Jan Garber

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Aliases
Jan Garber and His Garber-Davis Orchestra
Jan Garber and His Greater Columbia Recording Orchestra
Jan Garber and His Orch.
Jan Garber and His Orchestra
Born
November 5, 1894
Died
October 5, 1977
Country
United States
Comments
Jazz and dance music bandleader. He started his first band, a quartet, in 1918, and played violin in it. During the 1920s he formed the Garber-Davis Orchestra in Atlanta with pianist Milton Davis playing mostly in the southern US. In 1927 he moved the band to Chicago and met Canadian bandleader and saxophonist Freddie Large. He took over Large's band, playing violin as leader, and played in Chicago and the midwest. While performing at the Trianon he received national attention when the shows were broadcast live over radio. An announcer called Garber "The Idol of the Airwaves".
Family
Kitty Thomas Daughter
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Milton Davis Garber-Davis Orchestra
Ukulele Bailey Member of Jan Garber and His Orchestra
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1936 The California Ramblers - Vocal Refrain by Ted Wallace
i   August 1961 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra REL, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Refrain by Carmen Lombardo & Trio REC, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers BRD
listen on Internet Archive i 1937 Emma Trentini and Orville Harrold
listen on Internet Archive June 1937 Edith Day
i 1965 Ray Sanders with The Anita Kerr Singers
i April 1962 Bud Billings Trio
i 1961 Edith Decker
listen on Internet Archive June 23, 1934 Gene Raymond
listen on Internet Archive i   1957 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Stanley Worth REC, Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, Ralph Stuart PRF
i Almost Like Being in Love Jan Garber and His Orchestra 1966 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive   1936 The Singing Serenaders REC, Jack Hylton and His Orchestra REL
i 1965 Emmett Miller
listen on Internet Archive April Played the Fiddle Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Lee Bennett 1940 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1936 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Lew Sherwood
i July 1957 Emilio De Marchi
1938 Emilio De Marchi, Al Jolson
i 1961 Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Benny Davis
1928 Ruth Etting
listen on Internet Archive i 1957 Prince's Band
April 19, 1948 (unknown)
i July 1957 Gene Autry
i 1961 Jeanette MacDonald with Male Quartet and Orchestra
i 1961 Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders
November 28, 1934 Freddy Martin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Terry Shand
i Bourbon Street Parade Jan Garber and His Orchestra 1966 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive   March 1936 Harriet Hilliard BRD, Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harriet Hillard REC
listen on Internet Archive October 1927 Missouri Jazz Band – Vocal Chorus Arthur Fields
i November 1967 Jill Haworth
i 1961 Orchester Ricardo Santos
i   1960 Al Jolson PRF, Al Jolson with Isham Jones Orchestra REC
Castles In The Sand Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal by Roy Cordell 1951 Unverified
i Chanson d'amour Jan Garber and His Orchestra 1966 Unverified
i   1959 Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman and His Orchestra REC, Fred Astaire BRD
1960 (unknown), (unknown)
i   1961 Johnny Green and His Orchestra REC, Carl Brisson BRD
January 1950 Reg Dixon with Albert Marland and His Orchestra
June 1949 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Refrain by Carmen Lombardo
i Danke schoen Jan Garber and His Orchestra 1966 Unverified
i August 1961 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Edythe Wright
  January 1950 The Revelers [US1] REC,REL, Eddie Cantor PRF
listen on Internet Archive i   June 1954 Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra REC, Willie Creager's Rhythm Aces REL
i Downtown Jan Garber and His Orchestra 1966 Unverified
i August 1961 (unknown)
i 1961 The Pied Pipers - With Paul Weston and His Orchestra
1937 Frances Langford with Orchestra under the direction of Phil Ohman
listen on Internet Archive February 1949 Mark Fisher [US]
i   1961 Marlene Dietrich - Begl.: Fr. Holländer und seine Jazz-Symphoniker BRD,REL, Weintraubs Syncopators REC
i August 1961 Deep River Boys
i 1959 Prince's Orchestra, Willie Bryant and His Orchestra, Lew Stone and His Band
i April 1962 Blue Steele and His Orchestra with Vocal Chorus
Gotta Get Me Somebody to Love Jan Garber and His Orchestra vocal by Tommy Traynor (Jan Garber) 1946 Unverified
i July 1957 Roy Fox and His Orchestra (Vocal Refrain by Barry Gray)
i 1923 Synco Jazz Band (Joseph Samuels)
i Heart Jan Garber and His Orchestra 1966 Unverified
i 1961 Larry Clinton and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain
i   1961 Rosemary Clooney REL, Lucille Ball, Paula Stewart PRF
i 1961 Clarence Williams' Washboard Band
April 19, 1948 Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
i August 29, 1924 Jack Charman, Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen)
i November 1967 The Kids Next Door
1940 Vernon Dalhart
  August 1961 Judy Garland with Orchestra under direction of David Rose REC,REL, Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney BRD
August 1948 King Guion
December 24, 1926 Six Jumping Jacks (Harry Reser)
listen on Internet Archive 1940 Ford and Glenn
March 1949 Buddy Clark, Orchestra under the direction of Earl Hagen
listen on Internet Archive February 1950 Doris Day with Ray Noble and His Orchestra
If Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal by Roy Cordell 1951 Unverified
1936 Joe Penner, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks, Frances Langford, Betty Grable and Lynne Overman
If I Loved You More Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Lee Bennett 1938 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive I Haven't Time To Be A Millionaire Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Fritz Heilbron 1940 Unverified
i   1961 Charles Harrison [US] REC, Campbell and Burr REL
March 1944 Ted Wallace & His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by The Radio Imps
i 1961 Ted Wallace & His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by The Radio Imps
listen on Internet Archive i 1940 Isham Jones, Guest Conductor with Ray Miller's Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Frank Bessinger
listen on Internet Archive   1949 Johnny Marvin "The Ukulele Ace" REL, Aileen Stanley REC
listen on Internet Archive   1944 Wilbur Evans PRF, Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra REC,REL
August 1961 Paul Specht & His Orch.
i   April 1962 Janet Gaynor BRD, Ed Lowry REC
listen on Internet Archive 1937 George Murphy and Eleanor Powell [dubbed by Marjorie Lane]
listen on Internet Archive   March 1936 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers BRD, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Refrain by Carmen Lombardo REC,REL
  1936 Fats Waller and Orchestra BRD, Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Louis Armstrong REC
i 1959 George J. Gaskin, Knickerbocker Male Quartette
i 1922 (unknown)
i July 1957 Barbecue Joe and His Hot Dogs (Wingy Manone), Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Edgar Hayes and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive July 1939 Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights - Vocal Chorus Larry Cotton & Heidt's High Lights
i 1965 Eddy Arnold, The Tennessee Plowboy and His Guitar
1960 Jimmy Boyd accompanied by Norman Luboff
i 1961 The Ambassadors [US2]
i April 1962 The Street Singer (Arthur Tracy)
listen on Internet Archive 1940 Jan Savitt and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bon Bon
March 13, 1935 Bing Crosby
i July 1957 Claire Carleton
i 1965 Johnny Cash and Tennessee Two
May 1950 Don Redman and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i I Want to Be Happy Jan Garber and His Orchestra September 1924 Unverified
i November 1967 Michel Legrand
i 1928 Ladd's Black Aces (Original Memphis Five)
listen on Internet Archive i 1957 Tex Ritter and His Texans
listen on Internet Archive 1949 Tex Ritter and His Texans
1960 Bobby Helms
i 1960 Edison Male Quartette
1960 Bob Eberly
  August 1961 Bing Crosby BRD, Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash REC
1938 Mills Brothers
i 1961 Franklyn Baur
i 1960 (unknown)
  August 1961 Tony Bennett with Percy Faith & His Orch. REL, Sydney Chaplin and Judy Holliday PRF
i 1936 Fritzi Scheff
listen on Internet Archive 1936 Arthur C. Clough
listen on Internet Archive i 1923 (unknown), Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
i July 1957 Steve Porter
i 1961 (unknown), Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights
i 1959 Irving Kaufman, Wayne King and His Orch.
i 1959 The Harmonians - Vocal Chorus by Arthur Hall
listen on Internet Archive   1944 Gene Kelly & Rita Hayworth [dubbed by Martha Mears] BRD, Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra REC
listen on Internet Archive September 1950 Spade Cooley and His Orchestra - Vocal refrain by Ginny Jackson and The Quartet
  March 13, 1935 Ted Fio Rito and His Orchestra REC,REL, Gracie Allen BRD
1928 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
i November 1967 Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra
i   1959 Dick Haymes BRD, Dick Haymes with Orchestra under direction of Victor Young REC
listen on Internet Archive i June 1954 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive i   1957 Jan Garber and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Russ Brown REC, Kenny Baker [US1] BRD
i February 1, 1924 Marion Harris
i 1961 The Harmonians - Vocal Chorus by Irving Kaufman
listen on Internet Archive   July 1951 Howard Marsh and Norma Terris PRF, Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Scrappy Lambert REC
listen on Internet Archive i 1957 Piron's New Orleans Orchestra
i Mame Jan Garber and His Orchestra 1966 Unverified
  1936 Freddy Martin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Elmer Feldkamp REC, Fuzzy Knight with Henry Fonda (whistling) BRD
listen on Internet Archive   1936 International Novelty Orchestra (Nathaniel Shilkret) REC, Jack Tenney and the Majestic Orchestra PRF
i 1961 Edith Piaf
1936 Roy Smeck and His Serenaders – Vocal Chorus by Clark Ross
listen on Internet Archive i 1957 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
listen on Internet Archive 1936 Henry Burr
listen on Internet Archive i 1957 Jon and Sondra Steele
  December 1943 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Eugenie Baird REC, Betty Grable BRD
i 1961 Matt Monro with Accompaniment directed by Johnnie Spence
  1937 Chauncey Olcott PRF, Mr. A. C. Campbell REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive 1936 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
1951 Isham Jones Orchestra
i 1961 Melina Mercouri
i 1965 Jimmie Davis
December 1943 Alice Faye
i 1965 Hank Snow, The Singing Ranger and The Rainbow Ranch Boys
listen on Internet Archive i November 16, 1923 Arthur Fields
i On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever) Jan Garber and His Orchestra 1966 Unverified
i 1961 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal by Al Hendrickson
1939 Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra
i   April 1962 John Michael King REL,PRF
listen on Internet Archive i   1957 The Troubadours [Nathaniel Shilkret] – Vocal Refrain by Frank Munn REC,REL, Ramon Novarro BRD
1951 Nick Lucas "The Crooning Troubadour"
  August 1961 Pola Negri BRD, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frances Maddux REC
i Pearly Shells Jan Garber and His Orchestra 1966 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive   1944 Alfred Drake & Joan Roberts with Oklahoma Orchestra under direction of Jay Blackton REL, Alfred Drake & Joan Roberts PRF
i 1965 Al Dexter and His Troopers
listen on Internet Archive August 1927 Vaughn De Leath (The Radio Girl) – Stuart Ross at the Piano
listen on Internet Archive   1930 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra REC, Harry Richman BRD
i 1965 Nat King Cole with Music conducted by Belford Hendricks
i   1960 Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Blackwell Lunsford REL, Carl T. Sprague REC
May 1950 Lulu Belle and Scotty
1937 (unknown)
i Rose of Washington Square Jan Garber and His Orchestra 1966 Unverified
1960 Gene Autry and The Pinafores with Orchestral Acc.
listen on Internet Archive i 1957 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
March 1944 Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
1960 Harry Reser and His Orchestra
Shabby Old Cabby Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Lee Bennett 1939 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1928 Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1936 Miss Walton and Mr. Macdonough
i   1960 Bing Crosby and Carol Richards REL, Bob Hope & Marilyn Maxwell REC
1928 Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang
  August 1961 Cliff Edwards, Brox Sisters, Rounders and MGM Chorus BRD, The Rounders [US1] REC
i 1961 Dick Thomas
listen on Internet Archive i 1936 Waring's Pennsylvanians
i 1960 Boston Pops Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1938 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Refrain by Carmen Lombardo
October 1950 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Johnny Amoroso
listen on Internet Archive   1940 Winnie Lightner PRF, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL
i 1960 Alberta Hunter and Ray's Dreamland Orchestra
i 1965 Elton Britt
i November 1967 Carson and Gaile
listen on Internet Archive   October 1928 Al Jolson REC,BRD
i April 1962 Miklós Rózsa
i 1959 Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra
i 1938 Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals
listen on Internet Archive i 1949 Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra
i April 1962 Russ Columbo and His Orchestra
i November 1967 Grethe Ingmann
listen on Internet Archive i 1922 (unknown)
i 1961 Ben Bernie and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive December 1951 Ben Bernie and His Orchestra
July 1936 Nat Brandwynne and His Stork Club Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive May 1942 Ford and Glenn
i   1961 Debbie Reynolds REL,BRD
i July 1957 Gene Autry
listen on Internet Archive 1938 Ambrose and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Sam Browne
1937 Virginia Verrill
1935 (unknown)
1949 (unknown)
1940 Eva Puck and Sam White
The Gypsy Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal by Tommy Traynor (Jan Garber, Tommy Traynor) 1946 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1949 Billy Whitlock, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Kenny Gardner and The Lombardo Trio
listen on Internet Archive  REL March 1951 Derk Gootjes, Paul Weston and His Orchestra - Violin Solo by Paul Nero, Percy Faith and His Orchestra and Chorus REC
Covered by Ella Fitzgerald with Orchestra directed by Sy Oliver
i   1961 Anna Maria Alberghetti PRF,REL
The Morningside of the Mountain Jan Garber and His Orchestra October 6, 1951 Unverified
i 1960 Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Pinky Tomlin
November 28, 1934 Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Pinky Tomlin
i 1961 Edith Piaf
listen on Internet Archive i October 1926 Abe Lyman's California Orchestra
i The Shadow of Your Smile Jan Garber and His Orchestra 1966 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive July 1951 Sam Lanin and His Troubadours
i 1959 Moe Koffman Quartette
i July 1957 Al Bowlly
listen on Internet Archive i 1957 Fred Astaire
listen on Internet Archive   November 1943 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kitty Kallen REC,REL, Bette Davis BRD
i November 1967 Julie Andrews
listen on Internet Archive January 1951 Hollywood Dance Orchestra [Nathan Glantz]
  August 1961 Paul Gregory & Marilyn Miller PRF, New Mayfair Dance Orchestra [Ray Noble] REC,REL
i 1961 Nick Lucas "The Crooning Troubadour"
i December 1924 Margaret Young
listen on Internet Archive September 1927 Bob Haring and His Orchestra
Violets for Your Furs Jan Garber & His Orchestra 1999 Unverified
i July 1957 Isham Jones Orchestra
i November 1967 Norman Wisdom, Louise Troy & Ensemble
i 1959 Grace Moore & John Steel PRF, Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC, Irving Kaufman, John Steel and Ruth Thomas
May 1950 Rome Johnson
1928 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1928 Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus George Beaver
i 1929 Margaret Young
listen on Internet Archive 1936 Bing Crosby with Victor Young and His Orchestra
  1951 Ginger Rogers BRD, Art Kahn's Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Chick Bullock REC
listen on Internet Archive   September 1927 Harry Pollock's Blue Diamonds - Vocal Chorus, Al Shayne REL, Mound City Blue Blowers REC
listen on Internet Archive 1930 Fanny Brice
i   1960 Arthur Lang's Orchestra REC,REL, Wilda Bennett PRF
i 1961 Victor Young
1937 Chauncey Olcott
i 1960 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal refrain by Lebert Lombardo
i 1961 Wolverine Orch. – Vocal Chorus Dave Harman
1939 The Happy Chappies
listen on Internet Archive 1937 Grace Kerns
August 1949 Betty Hutton
listen on Internet Archive i   March 1937 Paul Whiteman and His Ambassador Orchestra REL, Ray Miller's Black and White Melody Boys REC
i   1960 Bing Crosby & Marjorie Reynolds [dubbed by Martha Mears] BRD, Bing Crosby with Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REC,REL
i Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) Jan Garber and His Orchestra 1966 Unverified
i July 1957 Isham Jones and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Frank Hazzard
listen on Internet Archive 1936 "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
listen on Internet Archive February 1950 Freddy Martin and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Merv Griffin and The Martin Men
i 1960 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash
i 1965 Claude King
i 1959 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
i 1961 Bert Kämpfert und sein Orchester
i 1961 Pusinelli & Hackert
i July 1957 (unknown)
i 1961 (unknown), Katherine Dunham and Ensemble
(Yip Yip De Hootie) My Baby Said Yes Jan Garber and Orchestra - vocal by Debby Claire (Jan Garber) 1945 Unverified
i 1959 The Pine Ridge Boys
You Belong to Me Jan Garber & His Orchestra August 1952 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive August 1927 Jules Herbuveaux' Palmer House Victorians – Vocal Chorus by Frank Sylvano
listen on Internet Archive 1938 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by The Three Barons
listen on Internet Archive 1939 "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
i 1965 Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
August 1949 Enrico Caruso accompag. dall' Autore Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Vic Damone with Glenn Osser's Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i January 18, 1924 (unknown)
i   1961 Nat "King" Cole REC, Russ Morgan and His Orchestra REL
listen on Internet Archive 1936 Gladys Rice
i   August 1961 Tony Martin [US1] BRD, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ray Eberle and The Modernaires REC,REL