Original upload date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 09:32:31 GMT
Edward Santos, trumpeter for Raymond Fagan Dance Orchestra played for the Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce in 1924. Played with Fagan 1922-mid 1930s.The Ed Santos Entertainers featured Ed's trumpet in 192
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6 with his "Cooks Revue Band" which also featured Roy Jackson Hamilton, his brother in-law, who can be heard in the background of this recording praising his trumpet playing ("oh man could he play that thing"). Ed was a 1930s music union member, and often received music work to play with bands. This 1950s brief test recording is the only known trumpet sounds made of his trumpet music ability. In the mid 1940s he switched to the drums, and played
with the Micky Carton Orchestra (an Irish Dance Band).
