Talk:Fred Waring
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Think this page needs a little bit of varification of points. "Waring created the first band to feature female singers"; can that be true? It could use a little bit of attention to some POV wording as well. -R. fiend 17:10, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- I've removed this sentence until someone can verify and clarify: "Always an innovator, Waring created the first band to feature female singers, and was the first to combine an orchestra and a glee club." I'm not sure exactly what this is supposed to say. No females had ever sung with any sort of musical ensemble before him? Now I'm not 100% sure of the differences between a glee club and a choir, but Waring was certainly by no means the first to include a choir with an orchestra. If there is any truth to either of these staements they should be clarified and reinserted, but I don't see how there can be. -R. fiend 17:33, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I edited Warning to Waring in the second paragraph. Also someone has described Fred as a "teetotaler". This is untrue and I know for a fact that he enjoyed sidecars on a regular basis (everyday). His Father was a staunch Methodist but he still drank. To promote the blender he would make frozen daquris and drink them along with those he was presenting to. All this is detailed in "Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians (Music in American Life)" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.160.46.172 (talk • contribs) 01:15, 12 December 2005 (UTC).
[edit] Possible Copyright Violations
The tone of this article makes me suspicious about the original copyright source. I only found a quarter of it to be lifted from a website, but the rest appears to be original. Working on including original photographs. Thanks, GChriss <always listening><c> 21:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article improvements
Comment: There ought to be a little more attention to Waring's highly successful dance band of the 1920s and early 1930s. Billed as "Waring's Pennsylvanians", they played lively fox trots and waltzes in the reigning style of the period. From 1923 to 1932 the band recorded in the neighborhood of 200 sides for Victor, and it's likely that the total sales of these records were in the same ballpark as the sales of his post-WWII choral recordings. Major hits included the waltz "Sleep" (1923, the novelty song "Collegiate" (1925 - this inspired innumerable knockoff songs about college high-jinks, and "Little White Lies" (1930). Though most of these records have vocals, none feature large choruses; that came later in Waring's career.
Also, Fred Waring's involvement with his namesake blender needs to be more clearly described.
-Dr Demento (dementosoc@earthlink.net) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Einar41 (talk • contribs) 06:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC).
- I am more than happy to help, but you seem to know a bit more than I do about the subject. Feel free to edit away, and I will do the same. Thanks, GChriss <always listening><c> 05:40, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
