Mike Riley
Mike Riley (January 5, 1904 – September 2, 1984) was an American jazz trombonist and songwriter. He is best known for co-writing the 1935 song "The Music Goes Round and Round", one of the biggest hits of that year.
Mike Riley
- Name
- Mike Riley
- Born
- January 5, 1904
- Died
- September 2, 1984 (aged 80)
- Place of death
- Redondo Beach, California, U.S.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- bandleader · trombonist · composer · lyricist · musician · songwriter
- Fields
- jazz
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Mike Riley (5 janvier 1904 – 2 septembre 1984) figure comme musicien, bandleader, auteur de chansons et compositeur dans les notices d'autorité de la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Mike Riley naquit le 5 janvier 1904 à Fall River, Massachusetts. et mourut le 2 septembre 1984 à Redondo Beach, California.
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• Name — Mike Riley • Born — January 5, 1904 • Died — September 2, 1984 (aged 80) • Place of death — Redondo Beach, California, U.S. • Genre — Jazz • Instruments — Trombone
Career
Career
Riley played both trumpet and trombone, and by 1927 was working in New York City, playing trumpet in Jimmy Durante's band at the Parody Club. He soon found work in several local bands as a trombonist, then co-led an ensemble with Eddie Farley, with whom he held a regular gig at the Onyx Club and wrote several songs including "The Music Goes Round and Round". He worked in New York and regionally through the 1940s, then worked in Chicago in the 1950s. Riley led a band which toured North America later in the 1950s and 1960s.
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He died in Redondo Beach, California, in 1984.
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- 1.Colin Larkin. The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz. Guinness Publishing. 142. 1992. 0-85112-580-8.
- 2.The Music Goes 'round (1936). Notes for the Record on 'Music Goes 'Round,' at the Capitol, and Other Recent Arrivals. New York Times. February 22, 1936.
- 3.'Music Goes Round and Round' Perpetrated by 'Red' Hodgson. Author of Dizzy Tune Settles Controversy With Farley, Riley; Only a Variation of 'Dinah,' He Asserts. Washington Post. February 7, 1937.
- 4.Social Security Death Index
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- [ Mike Riley] at Allmusic
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