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Ted Weems & His Orchestra - Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken! (Lay A Little Egg For Me) ~1926

Wilfred Theodore Wemyes (aka Ted Weems) was born on September 26, 1901 in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Growing up, he learned to play the violin and trombone. His start in music came when he entered a contest hoping to win a pony, but he won violin instead. He was so passionate about music, he started a band at his school, providing some of the instruments himself which were better than what the school owned. When his family moved to Philadelphia causing him to switch schools, he would join the band at his new school as well and became its director. He and his brother organized a dance band in college called the "All American Band", hand picking the best talent they could find. Over time, they started getting offers and requests for gigs and Ted found himself swaying toward a musical career. The band was so renown, they played for the inauguration of President Warren G. Harding in 1921. The band would officially go professional in 1923 and began touring for the MCA corporation, and began recording for Victor Talking Machine Company. 1924 would see their first hit and their first million seller. Weems moved himself and his band to Chicago in 1928, with 1929 bringing in another gold record and another number one hit. They started performing on the radio in the early 1930's which really ballooned their popularity, performing on programs including Fibber McGee & Molly, Jack Benny's Canada Dry program and the first season of "Beat The Band". Ted would continue recording for Victor until 1933 when he switched to Columbia for two sessions and then jumped to Decca after 1936, which was the same year Weems would record with a new up and coming singer named Perry Como. Weems also sprouted other talent such as Red Ingle, Marilyn Maxwell and Joe Haymes. 1942 saw the entire band enlist in the US Merchant Marines and becoming the Marchant Marine Band. Post war, 1945 brought about some reorganization in the band. Some didn't want to perform anymore, two members were killed in the war, and others found jobs with other bands. He even found a new label in Mercury. Another hit ensued, but his biggest song that year was a re-release of a 1938 song he recorded with Decca (and an even earlier 1933 uptempo version for Victor) which spent 13 weeks on the charts. No one in the band received any pay for this success as they let their contracts expire while in the Merchant Marines. After a lightning-struck-twice scenario with Decca trying another cataloged song and getting yet another hit out of it, no new hits came from Weems. He would continue touring until 1953 when he became a disc Jockey in Memphis, Tennessee, then became management within the Holiday Inn hotel chain. Perry Como would play host to Weems and other band members at his Kraft Music Hall show in 1961. Ted would pass away in 1963. Today's song, "Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken! (Lay A Little Egg For Me came from the bands earlier days and is a fun, nonsensical novelty song, very reminiscent of The Six Jumping Jacks or Red Ingle. The recording took place in Camden, New Jersey on September 13, 1926. The talent was as follows: Ted Weems (director); Art Weems, Carl Agee (trumpet); Charles Stenroos (trombone); Dick Cunliffe, Thales Taylor, Parker Gibbs (clarinet, sax); Jack O'Brien (piano); Bill Comfort (banjo); Louis Terman (brass bass); and Dusty Rhodes (drums). Both Parker Gibbs and Dusty Rhodes provided vocals for the track.