George Olsen
George Olsen (1893–1971) was an American musician, bandleader and conductor.
George Olsen
Bain News Service, publisher · Library of Congress Catalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2014717570 Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/37400/37422v.jpg Original url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014717570/ · Public domain
- Born
- 1893 · Portland
- Died
- 1971 · Paramus
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- musician · bandleader · conductor
- Fields
- music
- Education
- University of Michigan
- Languages
- English
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Biography
Born at Portland in 1893, died in Paramus in 1971.
George Olsen studied at University of Michigan. The recorded working language is English.
The field of work recorded is music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are jazz.
An interview with bandleader George Olsen (right) in 1926 at NBC's flagship radio station WJZ in New York City. The microphone is a Western Electric double button microphone, very widely used for broadcasting and recording in the 1920s. It was sometimes called a "ring and spring" microphone because the microphone unit is suspended by springs in the center of a steel ring to prevent vibrations of t
Betty Ann Gray · Retrieved March 15, 2014 from Betty Ann Gray, "All Aboard the Pennsylvania Special" in The Radio Home magazine, Consolidated Publishers, Inc., Philadelphia, Vol. 5, No. 1, June-July 1926, p. 32 on Ame
George Olsen in ad in Billboard magazine
Page 20 of January 20, 1945 Billboard magazine
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Portland
Birth place
Paramus
Death place
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 20 August 2026.
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