CHARLIE AGNEW -AMERICAN DANCE BAND LEADER-ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHS

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Charles Agnew
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This article is about the American dance band leader. For the British art dealer and philanthropist, see
Charles Morland Agnew
.
Charles Agnew
Also known as
Charlie Agnew
Born
June 22, 1901
Died
25 October 1978 (aged 77)
Genres
dance band
Charles Agnew
(June 22, 1901 – October 25, 1978)
[1]
was a popular dance-band leader. Most popular in the 1930s as a midwestern territory band appearing in a sequence of hotel ballrooms, he enjoyed a long career that extended into the 1960s.
Biography
Charles Agnew was raised in New Jersey.
[2]
Agnew's band was primarily based in the Chicago area, where he was often engaged at the
Aragon Ballroom
,
[2]
the Edgewater Hotel (with Irene Taylor on vocals)
[3]
and the Stephens Hotel.
[4]
With co-composers Charles Newman and Audree Collins, he wrote a song called "Slow but Steady" which was copyright in 1931.
[5]
He appeared, alongside the
Paul Whiteman
and
Gus Edwards
orchestras, at the "Marathon Opera" which benefitted the
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Milk Fund.
[6]
Through the 1930s his orchestra was heard nationally in the United States on the
NBC Radio
network.
[7]
[8]
[9]
In 1933 he recorded several songs for
Columbia Records
, the most popular of which was "
Don't Blame Me
."
[4]
The New Yorker
magazine reviewed this recording as "richly played."
[10]
Represented by the
Musical Corporation of America
, he spent the summer of 1936 playing at the Colonial Hotel in Indiana, where featured vocalists were Lon Saxon and Emrie Ann Lincoln.
[11]
He continued to lead his dance band into the 1940s.
[12]
During World War II he actively toured the country, playing for the benefit of enlisted personnel
[2]
and continuing his hotel engagements.
[13]
While many big band leaders disbanded, Agnew kept his unit together until the late 1950s. At that point he downsized to a smaller group, until retiring about 1968.
[2]
Charles Agnew could play many different instruments, from disparate
classifications
.
[2]
He was receiving treatment for cancer when he died on October 25, 1978 in
Waukegan, Illinois
.
[2]