Mike Riley (musician)

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Mike Riley
BornJanuary 5, 1904
DiedSeptember 2, 1984 (aged 80)
Redondo Beach, California, U.S.
GenresJazz
InstrumentsTrombone

Mike Riley (January 5, 1904 – September 2, 1984)

The Music Goes Round and Round", one of the biggest hits of that year.[2]

Career

Riley played both trumpet and trombone, and by 1927 was working in

the Onyx Club and wrote several songs including "The Music Goes Round and Round".[3]
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.

Personal life

He died in Redondo Beach, California, in 1984.[4]

References

  1. ISBN 0-85112-580-8
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  2. New York Times. February 22, 1936. Archived from the original
    on May 20, 2011. Retrieved 2008-10-02. If we really wanted to be nasty about it, we could say that this Farley-Riley sequence is the best thing in the new picture. At least it makes no pretense of being anything but a musical interlude dragged in by the scruff of its neck to illustrate the devastating effect upon the public of some anonymous young busybody's question about the workings of a three-valve sax horn. Like the "March of Time," it preserves in film the stark record of a social phenomenon—in this case, the conversion of a song hit into a plague, like Japanese beetles or chain letters.
  3. Washington Post. February 7, 1937. Retrieved 2008-10-02. Chicago (Associated Press
    ) Less than a year ago the gayer circles of the country were in the throes of a bit of musical mania wherein the song and the singer went round and round deliriously.
  4. ^ Social Security Death Index

Further reading

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