Editing Big band (section)

==Radio==
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During the 1930s, [[Earl Hines]] and his band broadcast from [[Sunset Cafe|the Grand Terrace]] in Chicago every night across America.<ref name="Travis">{{cite web|last1=Travis|first1=Dempsey J.|title=Where The Jazz Was Super-hot| url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/03/26/where-the-jazz-was-super-hot/|website=Chicago Tribune|access-date=6 September 2017|language=en|date=26 March 1985}}</ref> In Kansas City and across the Southwest, an earthier, bluesier style was developed by such bandleaders as [[Bennie Moten]] and, later, by [[Jay McShann]] and [[Jesse Stone (musician)|Jesse Stone]]. By 1937, the "sweet jazz band" saxophonist [[Shep Fields]] was also featured over the airways on the [[NBC radio]] network in his ''Rippling Rhythm Revue,'' which also showcased a young [[Bob Hope]] as the announcer.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqhoAgAAQBAJ |title=On the Air: the Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |author-last=Dunning |author-first=John |publisher=Oxford University Press |publication-place=New York |date=1998 |isbn=978-0-19-977078-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=HqhoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA105 105]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ffiDAAAQBAJ |title=Bob Hope: A Tribute |author-last=Strait |author-first=Raymond |publisher=Crossroad Press |date=2016 |chapter=Chapter 11. Bob Hope, Shep Fields and The Rippling Rhythm Revue |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ffiDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT74}}</ref><ref>[https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/british-born-american-comedian-bob-hope-master-of-news-photo/79750132 Photograph of Bob Hope as master of ceremonies on the "Rippling Rhythm Revue" Show in 1937 on Gettyimages]</ref>

[[Big band remote]]s on the major radio networks spread the music from ballrooms and clubs across the country during the 1930s and 1940s, with remote broadcasts from jazz clubs continuing into the 1950s on NBC's ''[[Monitor (NBC Radio)|Monitor]]''. Radio increased the fame of [[Benny Goodman]], the "Pied Piper of Swing". Others challenged him, and [[battle of the bands]] became a regular feature of theater performances.

Similarly, [[Guy Lombardo]] and his Royal Canadians Orchestra also achieved widespread notoriety for nearly half a century as a result of their broadcasts on the [[NBC]] and [[CBS]] networks of the annual New Year's Eve celebrations from the Roosevelt Grill at New York's [[Roosevelt Hotel (New York)|Roosevelt Hotel]] (1929-1959) and the Ballroom at the [[Waldorf Astoria Hotel]] (1959-1976) .<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ujTfCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA101 |last=Crump |first=William D. |title=Encyclopedia of New Year's Holidays Worldwide |publisher=McFarland & Co. |publication-place=London |date=2008 |page=101 |isbn=978-0-7864-3393-3}}</ref>

[[Gloria Parker]] had a radio program on which she conducted the largest all-girl orchestra led by a female. She led her Swingphony while playing marimba. [[Phil Spitalny]], a native of Ukraine, led a 22-piece female orchestra known as Phil Spitalny and His [[Hour of Charm Orchestra]], named for his radio show, ''[[The Hour of Charm]]'', during the 1930s and 1940s. Other female bands were led by trumpeter [[B. A. Rolfe]], [[Anna Mae Winburn]], and [[Ina Ray Hutton]].<ref name="Behrens2011" />