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Herbert Arthur Wiedoeft (22 November 1886 – 12 May 1928) was a band leader in California in the 1920s. ==Career== Wiedoeft was born in Germany and came to the USA with his parents as a child.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Herb Wiedoeft/Jesse Stafford Orchestra 1922-1930 )〕 Wiedoeft came from a family of gifted musicians and was encouraged by his father. His brothers Gerhardt and Adolph (nicknamed "Gay" and "Ad" respectively) played as sidemen in his band, Gerhardt on string bass and Adolph on percussion and xylophone. Another brother, Rudy Wiedoeft was a famous saxophone player during the late ragtime and early jazz era.〔 Their sister, Erica, was a pianist.〔〔 Wiedoeft started his first orchestra before 1915.〔 Herb's band played for most of its time at the Cinderella Roof Ballroom in the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel. The band's theme song "''Cinderella Blues''" came from this venue.〔 The band recorded four songs for the Nordskog label in 1922.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Herb Wiedoeft: BIOGRAPHY )〕 The band gained a recording contract with Brunswick Records, toured in Chicago and New York and earned a national reputation. Their first record for Brunswick was "Cinderella Blues"/ "Shine",〔〔 the latter being the first recording of the song that had Lew Brown's revised lyrics.〔 Clyde Lucas, who went on to form his own popular band in the 1930s and 1940s, started out as a singer and trombonist in the Herb Wiedoeft orchestra.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Big Bands Database Plus )〕 Wiedoeft died in a car accident in Medford, Oregon on 12 May 1928, when his car skidded off the Medford-Klamath Falls highway.〔 The trombonist Jesse Stafford took over the band, and released another 13 sides on Brunswick records under the name of the Jesse Stafford Orchestra.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Herb Wiedoeft's Cinderella Roof Orchestra )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herb Wiedoeft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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