Vincent Lopez
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Vincent Lopez was an American bandleader, actor, and pianist.
Lopez in a 1942 advertisement
Vincent Lopez and his band in the early 1920s
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
Vincent Lopez
…In 1941, Lopez's Orchestra began a residency at the Taft Hotel in Manhattan that would last 25 years. In the early 1950s, Lopez along with Gloria Parker hosted a radio program broadcast from the Taft Hotel called Shake the Maracas in which audience members competed for small prizes by playing maracas…
Parker in a 1944 advertisement