Eddie Vincent Kilfeather
Edward Vincent (Eddie) Kilfeather (April 5, 1900, Portland, Oregon - January 13, 1950, Los Angeles, California) was a musical composer and arranger who worked on the Columbia Pictures' animated cartoons. Kilfeather was born in 1900 to Edward and Hannah Kilfeather and grew up in Portland, Oregon. His father was a well-known Democrat found guilty of jury bribing in 1898. The young Kilfeather hooked up with another Portlander, George Olsen, who had formed a band and was its pianist, conductor and arranger. The band headed south and in San Francisco when it was hired by Flo Ziegfeld in 1923 to come to New Year to play music for the show Kid Boots. Kilfeather co-wrote the song Goin' Home Blues for the show. Ziegfeld became enraged with the band after the opening of Whoopee! in 1928. While on the road in Pittsburgh, he fired Kilfeather and replaced him with a personal favorite. Olsen protested by having his musicians refuse to play for the replacement. Ziegfeld relented and gave Kilfeather his job back. The Olsen band quit when the week was over. Kilfeather wrote a number of songs that Olsen recorded on RCA Records, including She's a Corn Fed Indiana Girl. (1926) He was so taken with the cornet playing of Bix Beiderbecke on a recording of Jazz Me Blues that he transcribed the notes and used it in Olsen's RCA Victor recording You'll Never Get to Heaven With Those Eyes. He moved to Los Angeles in 1931 with the Olsen band and occasionally played with Sam Coslow's orchestra at the Roosevelt Hotel. He arrived at the Charles Mintz cartoon studio in 1937 and stayed after it was absorbed by Columbia in 1941. His first short was Merry Mannequins and he was involved in 64 cartoons through the release of Up N' Atom in 1947. He was the studio's musical director, sometimes working in conjunction with composer Paul Worth. A stroke forced Eddie to retire as the cartoon studio's musical director in 1946. He was replaced by Darrell Calker, who was working with the Walter Lantz studio at the time. Kilfeather died in 1950, leaving behind his wife, the former Adelaide Robinson, who died in 1991, and a daughter, Mary Ellen. |
Birth and Death Data: Born April 5, 1900, Died January 13, 1950
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1924 - 1948
Roles Represented in DAHR: songwriter, director, piano, arranger, organ
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-30116 | 10-in. | 5/16/1924 | Sally Lou | George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band | arranger, instrumentalist, piano | |
Victor | B-30165 | 10-in. | 6/5/1924 | A new kind of man | George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band | arranger, instrumentalist, piano | |
Victor | B-30621 | 10-in. | 7/25/1924 | Sax-o-phun | George Olsen and his Music ; Rudy Wiedoeft | Jazz/dance band, with saxophone solo | arranger, instrumentalist, piano | |
Victor | B-30883 | 10-in. | 10/3/1924 | Goin' home blues | George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band | songwriter | |
Victor | BVE-34333 | 10-in. | 1/15/1926 | She's a corn-fed Indiana girl (But she's mamma to me) | George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal duet | songwriter | |
Victor | BVE-35751 | 10-in. | 7/8/1926 | You need someone to love | George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio | songwriter | |
Victor | BVE-37163 | 10-in. | 12/21/1926 | Sam, the old accordion man | George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio | instrumentalist, organ | |
Victor | BVE-46600 | 10-in. | 7/23/1928 | King for a day | Fran Frey | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | director | |
Victor | BVE-46601 | 10-in. | 7/23/1928 | Out of the dawn | Fran Frey | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | director | |
Victor | BVE-50981 | 10-in. | 3/27/1929 | A garden in the rain | Fran Frey ; George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | director | |
Victor | BVE-50996 | 10-in. | 4/1/1929 | Breakaway | Fran Frey ; George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | director | |
Victor | BVE-50997 | 10-in. | 4/1/1929 | Big city blues | George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | director | |
Victor | PBVE-61018 | 10-in. | 9/5/1930 | Always in all ways | George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | director | |
Victor | PBVE-61019 | 10-in. | 9/5/1930 | Beyond the blue horizon | George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | director | |
Victor | PBVE-61053 | 10-in. | 11/10/1930 | My love for you | George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | director | |
Victor | PBVE-61054 | 10-in. | 11/14/1930 | Song of the fool | George Olsen and his Music | Jazz/dance band, with vocal trio | director | |
Victor | D8VB-4103 | 10-in. | 12/21/1948 | She's a corn-fed Indiana gal | Drugstore Cowboys ; Jack Lathrop | Male vocal solo, with mixed vocal trio and instrumental ensemble | songwriter | |
Columbia | 142160 | 10-in. | 5/6/1926 | You need someone to love | Broadway Bellhops ; Jack Wilson | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | songwriter | |
Columbia | 145469 | 10-in. | 1/4/1928 | Danger! (Look out for that gal) | Victor Irwin and his Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | songwriter | |
Columbia | W145821 | 10-in. | 3/21/1928 | Danger! (Look out for that gal) | Tracy-Brown's Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | songwriter | |
OKeh | 80054 | 10-in. | 6/3/1926 | You need someone to love | Melody Sheiks | Jazz/dance band | songwriter | |
Brunswick | E3301-E3303 | 10-in. | 6/26/1926 | You need someone to love | Windsor Hotel Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal trio | songwriter | |
Brunswick | E3779-E3780 | 10-in. | 9/16/1926 | She’s a corn-fed Indiana girl | Bessie Coldiron | Female vocal solo, with piano | songwriter | |
Edison | 11035 | 10-in. | 6/9/1926 | She's a corn-fed Indiana girl (But she's Mama to me) | Tom Howard ; Jazz Babies | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | songwriter | |
Edison | 11173 | 10-in. | 8/31/1926 | You need someone to love | Arthur Fields ; Golden Gate Orchestra [California Ramblers] | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | songwriter | |
Edison | 18159 | 10-in. | 1/9/1928 | Danger! (Look out for that gal) | Oreste Queensland Orchestra ; The Songsters | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal duet | songwriter |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Kilfeather, Eddie Vincent," accessed November 18, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/115262.
Kilfeather, Eddie Vincent. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 18, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/115262.
"Kilfeather, Eddie Vincent." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 18 November 2024.
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External Sources
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LCNAR: Kilfeather, Eddie Vincent, -1950 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010088717
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