| LC control no. | n 93005610 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Weed, Buddy |
| Variant(s) | Weed, Eugene Harold |
| Birth date | 1918 |
| Death date | 1997 |
| Affiliation | American Broadcasting Company |
| Profession or occupation | Pianists Arrangers (Musicians) |
| Found in | Pianissimo [SR] 1955?: label (Buddy Weed) Celebrities with mics, via WWW, March 12, 2014 (Buddy Weed (1918-1997); Eugene Harold “Buddy” Weed; upon graduation from high school in Ossining, New York he studied arranging in classical techniques with Herman Wasserman; his first gig was at the age of sixteen when he was hired by Jack Teagarden's Orchestra in 1934; by early 1939, Paul “Pops” Whiteman had heard Buddy, and immediately hired him; before the war he had played with Teddy Powell and Charlie Spivack, and continued to be heard in Paul Whiteman's orchestra as featured solo pianist and arranger; after a three-year term in the U.S. Army he joined the staff of the American Broadcasting Co. (ABC) where he innovated and introduced the first piano Jazz Trio to America; since that time he became very much in demand as one of the most sought after pianists and arrangers in America; after his retirement in 1970 as Director of Music for ABC, he became a much sought-after soloist as well as with his trio in Arizona, and continued to appear on radio and television and in nightclubs) |
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