When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

* December 29 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader ( b. 1890 )

The following year, Trumbauer and Beiderbecke left Detroit to join the best-known and most prestigious dance orchestra in the country: the New York-based Paul Whiteman Orchestra.

The Paul Whiteman Orchestra was the most popular and highest paid band of the day.

; With the Paul Whiteman Orchestra:

" Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra ".

Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music, 1890 – 1930 ; Vol.

* The Paul Whiteman Orchestra

Typical of the genre were such popular artists as Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis, Harry Reser, Leo Reisman, Abe Lyman, Nat Shilkret, George Olsen, Ben Bernie, Bob Haring, Ben Selvin, Earl Burnett, Gus Arnheim, Henry Halstead, Rudy Vallee, Jean Goldkette, Glen Gray, Isham Jones, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Sam Lanin, James Last, Vincent Lopez, Ben Pollack, Shep Fields and Fred Waring.

Paul Whiteman and his orchestra in 1921

Although unashamedly commercial, these bands often featured front-rank jazz musicians — for example Paul Whiteman employed Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer.

Some bands were society bands that relied on strong ensembles but little on soloists or vocalists, such as the bands of Guy Lombardo and Paul Whiteman.

Miller's huge success in 1939 culminated with his band appearing at Carnegie Hall on October 6, with Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, and Fred Waring also the main attractions.

Jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Paul Whiteman first popularized jazz music among a diverse audience.

Paul Samuel Whiteman ( March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967 ) was an American bandleader and orchestral director.

In his autobiography, Duke Ellington declared, " Paul Whiteman was known as the King of Jazz, and no one as yet has come near carrying that title with more certainty and dignity.

In 1920 he moved with his band to New York City where they started recording for the Victor Talking Machine Company which made the Paul Whiteman Orchestra famous nationally.

( In his first five recordings sessions for Victor, Aug 9-Oct 28, 1920, Whiteman used the name " Paul Whiteman and His Ambassador Orchestra ," presumably because he had been playing at the Ambassador Hotel in Atlantic City ; from Nov. 3, 1920, he started using " Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra.

Paul Whiteman in Scheveningen ( 1926 )

It was very soon after their arrival that they learned of the death of Paul I. Louis hoped that Paul's successor, Alexander I of Russia, would repudiate his father's banishment of the Bourbons ( which he later did ).

As his condition worsened, Canadians hoped for a miracle and Pope John Paul II sent a telegram saying that he was praying for Fox.

After the death of his first consort, Maria of Tver ( 1467 ), and at the suggestion of Pope Paul II ( 1469 ), who hoped thereby to bind Russia to the Holy See, Ivan III wedded Sophia Paleologue ( also known under her original Greek and Orthodox name of Zoe ), daughter of Thomas Palaeologus, despot of Morea, who claimed the throne of Constantinople as the brother of Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor.

Paul Cohen, who secretly owned the Pittsburgh team as well as officially owning the Tapers, moved the Tapers again from New York, where they had been an NABL powerhouse for years, to Philadelphia, where he hoped to fill the void of the shocking move of the Warriors ( with Wilt Chamberlain ) from Philadelphia to San Francisco.

In fear of communal campaigning, Paul Berenger made an alliance with then Mauritian Socialist Party and its leader, Harish Boodhoo. He hoped that the PSM would draw most Hindu votes as Hindu was of majority in the country. He still proposed Anerood Jugnauth as prime minister and Harish Boodhoo as Deputy Prime Minister.

All the same, for Paul even an imagined affair of his boyfriend with a woman is as painful as he had hoped and warrants a breakup.

He suggested that police should clear the camp at night and went on record in the Daily Telegaph, stating: " While no one expects anti-capitalism to be a 24-hour activity, I would have hoped the protesters would show a little more respect for the sanctity of St Paul ’ s.

Gil Blas ruminates ironically upon the cardinal's hat that Paul V gave the Duke of Lerma: " This pope, wishing to establish the inquisition in the kingdom of Naples, invested the minister with the purple, and by that means hoped to bring King Philip over to so pious and praiseworthy a design.

He also hoped that his erstwhile co-star and friend, Paul Newman, would team up with him to play the role of Katz, although he jokingly expressed doubt as to whether the health-conscious Newman would consider putting on enough weight to accurately portray the rotund Katz.

Constantine ’ s letter to Pepin declared that, against his wishes, he had been raised to the Apostolic See by " the people of Rome and the cities adjoining it ", and that he hoped for the continuation of the friendship Pepin had shown to both his predecessors, Paul I and Stephen II.

Paul Reubens told the press in interviews that he hoped his revival of his Pee Wee Herman stage show would help garner producer interest and funding for a new feature film ( with a new actor possibly playing the role of Pee Wee ).

Mary moved back to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and eventually to Washington, D. C. She never returned to Seattle ; he continued to visit her in the Midwest or East at least twice a year until 1907 and even bought an estate at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he hoped they would occasionally stay together, but their relationship became increasingly chilly.

He brought back the journalist James Fullalove from The Quatermass Experiment, and the production team had hoped that actor Paul Whitsun-Jones would be able to reprise the part.

Subsequently, Richard Lewis and Paul Adams became co-leaders of the Family Party, which hoped to harness Pacific Island immigrant evangelicals in Mangere, South Auckland, who traditionally vote for the Labour Party.

Pope John Paul II considered being buried there also at one point in time, while some of the people of Poland had hoped that, following ancient custom, his heart would be brought there and kept alongside the remains of the great Polish rulers.

Many Christians in the 2nd century CE hoped to receive a transcendent personal revelation such as Paul was able to report to the church at Corinth () or that John experienced on the isle of Patmos, which inspired his Revelation.

According to Paul Neurath, the team " never got original game's texture mapper to look quite as good as we had hoped ", but the new system realized their initial vision.

Having produced some tracks on an old Amiga Computer with Protracker, the three went to visit DJ Paul Elstak who had just started his label Rotterdam Records where they hoped to be contracted.

Most pilgrims to the World Youth Day made their plans to come while John Paul II was still Pope, and had hoped to see him.

In connection with the newspaper story, Poirot receives a visit from Prince Paul of Maurania, who hoped that the dancer would be his wife.

For many years an Atlantic Union Resolution was introduced every session in the U. S. Congress, by Rep. Paul Findley, Donald Fraser, and Morris Udall as the lead co-sponsors, to call an " Atlantic Convention " which its proponents hoped would draft a constitution to be submitted for ratification to the countries represented.

Mobutu would not have been pleased by the emergence of a Rwandan government that was allied with Uganda and may have hoped that the Hutu militants could rid him of the new government of Paul Kagame.