TY  - GEN
AB  - Hitch's Happy Harmonists band members: Fred [Draves] on sax and clarinet, Curtis A. Hitch (1897-1988) on piano, Dewey Lee Neal (1898-1954) on sax, tenor, and bass, Maurice B. May (1901-1957) on banjo, and Earl McDowell on drums. According to Evansville at the Bend in the River, "The 1920s atmosphere was steeped in jazz, and many bands popped up in Evansville. [This band] performed regularly in Evansville and often on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington. The band assured itself a niche in musical history when it became the first to record the works of a young Bloomington composer named Hoagy Carmichael."
AU  - Unknown
DA  - 1925
DA  - circa 1925
ID  - 1529645
KW  - Artists
KW  - Arts and Entertainment
KW  - People and Communities
KW  - Photographs
KW  - Related Materials -- 1901-1950
L1  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529645/files/3766.jpg
L2  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529645/files/3766.jpg
L4  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529645/files/3766.jpg
LA  - eng
LK  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529645/files/3766.jpg
N2  - Hitch's Happy Harmonists band members: Fred [Draves] on sax and clarinet, Curtis A. Hitch (1897-1988) on piano, Dewey Lee Neal (1898-1954) on sax, tenor, and bass, Maurice B. May (1901-1957) on banjo, and Earl McDowell on drums. According to Evansville at the Bend in the River, "The 1920s atmosphere was steeped in jazz, and many bands popped up in Evansville. [This band] performed regularly in Evansville and often on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington. The band assured itself a niche in musical history when it became the first to record the works of a young Bloomington composer named Hoagy Carmichael."
PB  - University of Southern Indiana
PY  - 1925
PY  - circa 1925
T1  - Hitch's Happy Harmonists
TI  - Hitch's Happy Harmonists
UR  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529645/files/3766.jpg
Y1  - 1925
ER  -