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Vic Berton & His Orchestra Taboo (Music: Margarita Lecuona / Lyrics: S.K. Russell), Vocalion 1935

Vic BERTON (b.1896, Chicago d. 1951, Hollywood) was an American jazz drummer, son of a violinist in Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Early in the 1920s Vic played in various Chicago bands, including those of Art Kahn, Paul Beise, and Arnold Johnson. He led his own ensemble as well, which played at the Merry Gardens club. In 1924 he became the manager of The Wolverines, and occasionally played alongside Bix Beiderbecke in the ensemble. Later in the 1920s he played with Roger Wolfe Kahn, Don Voorhees, and Red Nichols, and in 1927 he moved to LA, to join for a time the orchestras of Paul Whiteman and Abe Lyman. He served as director of Paramount Films music division and worked in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. In the 1940s he worked as a percussionist in the studios for 20th Century Fox.