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Sentimental Journey Through the 1940s
All Aboard! Join us on a Sentimental Journey Through the 1940s featuring the music of famed Ohio native big bandleader and trumpet player Clyde McCoy and his “Sugar Blues” Orchestra.
Hear McCoy’s recently discovered original musical arrangements for the first time in six decades as Joseph Rubin and his 16-piece Orchestra featuring vocalist Heidi Swinford perform all your favorite song hits from the fabulous forties: Stompin’ At The Savoy, When You’re Smiling, Stardust, Opus No. 1, Sentimental Journey, and of course Sugar Blues.
Few musical trademarks were so instantly recognized as the first five notes played by Clyde McCoy when he stomped off Sugar Blues. McCoy (whose ancestors famously feuded with the Hatfield clan) started his musical career at the age of nine on the trombone in his hometown of Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1930, McCoy was engaged at Chicago’s Drake Hotel where he introduced what was to become his theme song, Sugar Blues. His record of that number sold over a million copies in 1930, no small feat in the depths of the depression. McCoy toured the country with his orchestra until 1942, when he and all his musicians joined the Navy where they entertained troops and hospital patients. After the war, McCoy reorganized his band and continued touring through the 1980s.
Don’t miss this musical journey through the decade when swing was king!
