Gloria Parker
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Gloria Parker was an American musician and bandleader who had a radio show during the big band era. The Gloria Parker Show was broadcast nightly from 1950 to 1957, coast to coast on WABC. She played t
Parker in a 1944 advertisement
Vincent Lopez
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Vincent Lopez was an American bandleader, actor, and pianist.
Gloria Parker
…in New York City. It featured her all-female Swingphony, the largest big band led by a woman. During the early 1950s, she hosted a radio program with Vincent Lopez from the Taft Hotel in Manhattan called Shake the Maracas. She hosted an evening broadcast on WOR from the New York City Hotel Edison. Parker would…
Lopez in a 1942 advertisement
Vincent Lopez and his band in the early 1920s