Del Porter is one of the music world's forgotten men. In the 1930s, he was one-fourth of a unique vocal quartet that wowed Broadway, packed nightclubs, sang in movies and radio, toured with Glenn Miller, and recorded with Bing Crosby and Dick Powell. In the '40s, his multiple and varied talents hel. .Porter exerted substantial influence on Spike Jones and his City Slickers - the zany band that revolutionized the field of comedy music during World War II - from their earliest days, as clarinetist, composer, arranger ("Hotcha Cornia," "Der Fuehrer's Face") and lead vocalist. He wrote two songs ("Siam" and "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy") which became staples of the band's repertoire. He continued to dabble in songwriting in his later years.
Del Porter, Category: Artist, Biography: Del Porter is one of the music world's forgotten men. Monthly Listeners: 83, Where People Listen: Toronto, Chicago, Philadelphia, Brisbane, Melbourne. In the '40s, his multiple and varied talents helped jump-start one of the hottest bands in the country. Yet Porter's undeserved obscurity is largely his own fault, as he was the first to admit. Porter traveled the Northwest with a number of bands before he joined the newly reorganized quartet the Foursome in 1928. He achieved considerable success with the group, notably in a pair of Broadway shows with Ethel Merman - George and Ira Gershwin's Girl Crazy and Cole Porter's Anything Goes.
Del Porter (né Delmar Smith Porter; 13 April 1902 in Newberg, Oregon – 4 October 1977 in Los Angeles) was an American jazz vocalist, saxophonist, and clarinetists who, in the 1930s, performed on Broadway, toured with Glenn Miller, and recorded with Bing Crosby, Dick Powell, and Red Nichols, and in the 1940s, led his own big band. Porter was a singer with the Foursome, which came to prominence in the 1930 Broadway hit show, Girl Crazy.
The Foursome - the vocal quartet that took Broadway by storm in 1930 and regrouped after the war as the Sweet Potato Tooters - are joined on this collection of vintage recordings by Bing Crosby, Dick Powell and Pinky Tomlin. Backing them are Perry Botkin's Instrumental Quartet (aka John Scott Trotter's Frying Pan Five); Spike Jones, the group's drummer, is heard on 13 tracks pre-dating the City Slicker days.
Water is the debut studio album by American jazz musician Gregory Porter. It was released under the Motéma Music label on May 11, 2010. Christopher Loudon of JazzTimes stated "The intersection of Kurt Elling and Sammy Davis Jr. may seem an unfathomable junction, but that’s precisely where you’ll find Gregory Porter
Following the war Del Porter reorganized the group as Sweet Potato Tooters with Johnson and Snyder. IMDb Mini Biography By: SAGE STEPS. Trivia (6). The members of this quartet were: Del Porter, L. Marshall Smith, Ray Johnson, and Dwight Snyder. The Foursome Quartets early recordings were made for the phonograph and the Vitaphone. Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. The Foursome's unique sound that distinguished them from other male quartets was a gourd-shaped instrument called the ocarina (dubbed the sweet potato due to its shape). They were difficult to get in tune, and although other groups tried to use them, none were successful. A popular song title being played on the radio in 1930 was The Stein Song.
