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Title: The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Alpha Tau Omega
Subjects: Greek letter societies
Publisher: (Champaign, Ill., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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arge of the situation,and assembled a 10-piece organizationand started rehearsals. Thus was bornJoe McCartney (alias Johnny Courtney)and his Masters of Melody. During the next two school years, thisband of Alj)ha Taus became the out-standing band in Indiana college circles,and in the summer of 34 gained a con-tract at the outstanding summer dancespot in Indiana—Fairview Gardens atLake Manitau. This proved to be thebreak they needed. Scouts from bigbooking concerns * caught the band,and the M. C. A. offered them a wintersengagement at the Blackstone Hotel inFort Worth, Texas, under the nameleader, Richard Cole, former PalmerHouse maestro in Chicago. The banddecided to make this venture, as theoffer also included an engagement in thePalmer House in January and a chancefor big time. After the Fort Worth engagement, the band journeyed toTulsa, Okla., where it played at thebeautiful Hotel Mayo. The boys werentgetting along so w^ell under the leader-ship of Cole, the Palmer House idea had
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JOHNNY COURTNEYGoing places tvith his campus band passed into obscurity, so they decidedto return to school in March of 1935. Whats In a Name Two weeks after their return, the realchance came—a summers engagementin the Old Vienna Restaurant in theNetherland Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati.Joe McCartney changed his name toJohnny Courtney, and soon WLW andthe Mutual Broadcasting System werepopularizing this name over these UnitedStates and fan mail began pouring infor this maestro and his distinctive band.Courtney and Vivian Marshall, SiSchaeffer, and Bob Baker, his vocalistsbecame by-words with the radio fans.Manj^ of you Taus must remember turn-ing your dial to W^LW, WGN, WOR, orWSM, and hearing the Star of theMutual Network. From Cincinnati to Cleveland, wherethe band opened this Ohio citys smartAmbassador Restaurant and became fur-ther air-popularized over WTAM 46 THE PALM, February, 1937 and the N. B. C. network. Then to thebeautiful Hollywood Restaurant in Buf-falo, N. Y., where WGR s

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