TY  - GEN
N2  - Hitch's Happy Harmonists band members: Arnold Abbe on banjo, Haskell L. Simpson (1902-1990) on tuba, Earl McDowell on drums, Curtis A. Hitch (1897-1988) on piano, Maurice B. May (1901-1957) on tenor sax, Fred A. Rollison (1905-1973) on cornet, and Harry Wright on sax and clarinet. 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."
AB  - Hitch's Happy Harmonists band members: Arnold Abbe on banjo, Haskell L. Simpson (1902-1990) on tuba, Earl McDowell on drums, Curtis A. Hitch (1897-1988) on piano, Maurice B. May (1901-1957) on tenor sax, Fred A. Rollison (1905-1973) on cornet, and Harry Wright on sax and clarinet. 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."
T1  - Hitch's Happy Harmonists
DA  - 1925
DA  - circa 1925
AU  - Unknown
L1  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529648/files/3759.jp2
L1  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529648/files/3759.jpg
PB  - University of Southern Indiana
LA  - eng
PY  - 1925
PY  - circa 1925
ID  - 1529648
L4  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529648/files/3759.jp2
L4  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529648/files/3759.jpg
KW  - Artists
KW  - Arts and Entertainment
KW  - People and Communities
KW  - Photographs
KW  - Related Materials -- 1901-1950
TI  - Hitch's Happy Harmonists
Y1  - 1925
L2  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529648/files/3759.jp2
L2  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529648/files/3759.jpg
LK  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529648/files/3759.jp2
LK  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529648/files/3759.jpg
UR  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529648/files/3759.jp2
UR  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1529648/files/3759.jpg
ER  -