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Arnold JOHNSON was born in 1893 in Chicago. At age of 14 he started working as a pianist in a Chicago Chinese restaurant. He went on to study music at the Chicago Music College and the American Conservatory of Music, and got his first band job with famed saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft. After migrating to New York City in 1919, Arnold organized and led the 'Frisco Jass Band'. In 1922, Johnson played at the Pelham Heath Inn in New York, and in the mid 1920s he briefly left the music business and sold real estate in Florida. He returned to music in the late 1920's and led what was considered to be his best band. The band appeared in two Broadway musicals: „George White Scandals" of 1928, and „Greenwich Village Follies" of 1928. In 1929 the band was also featured in another Broadway musical, "Earl Carroll's Sketch Book." Between shows, he played night clubs and theater dates alternating between Chicago and New York. He quit the band business in the early thirties and found work in the radio studios as a musical director and a producer.
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Recording:
Big City Blues (from the Fox Movietone "Follies of 1929") (Con Conrad) - Arnold Johnson & His Orchestra, Vocal by Scrappy Lambert, Brunswick 1929