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The Landt Trio
The Landt Trio was one of the busiest singing groups in early radio. In 1928, the three brothers, Karl (1908-1997), Jack (1911-1959), and Dan (1996-1961) Landt, with their accompanist Howard White, were signed onto the NBC Blue Network as sustaining artists and began a career of more than 20 years. They performed primarily on radio but also performed in vaudeville, including some headline runs at the Palace〔 and Carnegie Hall, and made many personal appearances. They were unusual in the music world in that they did not read music, so they sang and played by ear. They continued to perform on radio and in advertising until the early 1950s,〔 when the rising popularity of television ended their performance career.
==Early years and family==
Karl Benson, John "Jack" Matthias, and Daniel "Dan" Beckwith were three of the five children of Matthias Cole Landt, a foreman in the Lackawanna Woolen Mills in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Hulda Teresa Amena Benson Landt, who had immigrated to the United States from Sweden with her parents at the age of two. There were also two daughters, Edith and Mildred. They were a musical family. Matt sang and played guitar, Hulda was a contralto. The parents sang with and to their children, and the children learned to sing and harmonize together. Karl was said to be able to sing harmony before he could talk and became a boy soloist in the Lutheran Church choir. Matt was enamored of Thomas Edison's new phonographic technology and used wax cylinders to record his children singing. After leaving his job at the woolen mill, he sold Edison phonographs and was known as "the Edison man," until radio displaced phonographs in most homes.
After Karl taught himself to play the ukulele, he and Jack began singing together, as young teens, for friends and family and eventually on local Scranton radio stations, WGBI and WQAM,〔 calling themselves the Landt Brothers. Older brother, Dan, had joined the U.S. Army at the age of 16 and served in the Pancho Villa Expedition under General "Blackjack" Pershing, and then in Germany in World War I. While in Europe, he sang in a quartet with Eddie McManus.
After the war, Dan returned to Scranton looking for work. He found the family in difficult financial circumstances, since his father had been reduced to selling cookware door-to-door, sister Mildred was working for a pittance as a secretary at the A&P, 20-year-old Karl was out of work, and Jack was still in school at age 16. Dan joined his younger brothers in their singing act, and introduced them to a friend, Howard White, who owned and ran a bakery. White had learned to play piano from a self-taught black pianist who "only played on the black keys." Known as Howard "Velvet Fingers" White, Howard could play only by ear and was the perfect match for the trio, who sang only by ear. Meanwhile, Eddie McManus, who was a friend of Howard as well as Dan, had become a vaudeville performer and encouraged the group to take their act to New York. Because they had no money, Karl borrowed $300 from his Sunday School teacher, and they set off to try to "make it" in vaudeville.
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