Art Mooney

Bandleader Art Mooney enjoyed enormous popularity during the late '40s and throughout the 1950s, mainly by selling the public recordings of songs they already knew, often performed in the classic old-time popcorn-and-candied-apple singalong tradition. Born in Lowell, MA, in 1911, Mooney taught himself to play the tenor saxophone, hired in with a touring dance orchestra, and spent several years scuffling on the road as a sideman with various itinerant bands; he eventually dropped anchor in Detroit and led his own group, which he patterned after the sweet bands led by Lester Lan...