Name Herb Wiedoeft | Siblings Rudy Wiedoeft | |
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Died May 12, 1928, Medford, Oregon, United States | ||
Roarin 20s herb wiedoeft s orch ella cinders 1927
Herbert Arthur Wiedoeft (22 November 1886 – 12 May 1928) was a band leader in California in the 1920s.
Contents
- Roarin 20s herb wiedoeft s orch ella cinders 1927
- Herb Wiedoefts Cinderella Roof Orch Evrything Is Hotsy Totsy Now 1925
- Career
- Discography
- Works
- References
Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Roof Orch. - Ev'rything Is Hotsy Totsy Now, 1925
Career
Wiedoeft was born in Germany and came to the USA with his parents as a child. Wiedoeft came from a family of gifted musicians and was encouraged by his father. His brothers Gerhardt and Adolph (nicknamed "Gay" and "Ad" respectively) played as sidemen in his band, Gerhardt on string bass and Adolph on percussion and xylophone. Another brother, Rudy Wiedoeft was a famous saxophone player during the late ragtime and early jazz era. Their sister, Erica, was a pianist.
Wiedoeft started his first orchestra before 1915. Herb's band played for most of its time at the Cinderella Roof Ballroom in the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel. The band's theme song "Cinderella Blues" came from this venue. The band recorded four songs for the Nordskog label in 1922. The band gained a recording contract with Brunswick Records, toured in Chicago and New York and earned a national reputation. Their first record for Brunswick was "Cinderella Blues"/ "Shine", the latter being the first recording of the song that had Lew Brown's revised lyrics. Clyde Lucas, who went on to form his own popular band in the 1930s and 1940s, started out as a singer and trombonist in the Herb Wiedoeft orchestra.
Wiedoeft died in a car accident in Medford, Oregon, on 12 May 1928, when his car skidded off the Medford-Klamath Falls highway. The trombonist Jesse Stafford took over the band, and released another 13 sides on Brunswick records under the name of the Jesse Stafford Orchestra.
Discography
A partial list of Brunswick recordings: