HISTORICAL TRIVIA 1936-1940 - Fulton County Public Library

COLONIAL HOTEL
Dee Peterson & Band, June 13 & 14
The News-Sentinel, June 12, 1936
Dee Peterson and his nationally known dance orchestra will be
the featured band at the Colonial Gardens on Saturday and Sunday
evenings, June 13 and 14, the management announced today. This
band which has been heard on national broadcasting hook-ups comes
direct from Detroit, Mich.
The band carries a group of special singers, a string instrument
ensemble, feature entertainers and the famous Three Singing Bachelors.
Other recent engagements of the Peterson musical aggregation were
held at the Waco Pavilion, Syracuse and the Melody Gardens, at South
Bend.
The Charles Agnew band presented by the Musical Corporation
of America has been engaged to play throughout the regular summer
dancing season at the Colonial. This top-notch orchestra, which comes
direct from Chicago, opens its engagement here Monday evening, June
15. With the Agnew band are the well-known feature vocalists Emrie
Ann Lincoln and Lon Saxon, who will be on the program nightly.
FAIRVIEW HOTEL
Emil Velazco Band, June 21
The News-Sentinel, June 17, 1936
Emil Velazco and his Orchestra, who are credited with being
responsible for the greatest innovation in years in dance orchestras, due
to the fact that the band includes a genuine pipe organ, are booked for a
one night dance engagement at the Fairview Hotel Dance Pavilionj next
Sunday, June 21st.
The organ, valued at $20,000 is portable and is of ingenious
compact construction. It is not used for vlume but to add to the range
and tonal quality of the bands instrumentation. It adds many
distinctive interpretations to the Melodic appeal and rhyhmic charm of
the Valazco Orchestra which completed a long run at the Taft Hotel,
New York City, before starting the one night tour which brings it to the
Fairview Sunday evening.
Tiny Hill and His Orchestra will continue as the musical
attraction throughout the coming week, with the exception of Sunday
night.
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