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Eddie Peabody

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Name	Peabody, Eddie
Role	Musician
Places of residence	Massachusetts/California/Ohio/Arizona
Sphere Of Activity	While he was best known as a plectrum banjoist, Peabody's first theater act was doing tricks on the violin and other stringed instruments. However, it was his banjo playing that stopped the show. He got on the Pantages theatre circuit with the Earl Fuller Band and eventually ended up in Cleveland, Ohio around 1923. There he appeared with the Austin Wylie dance band and the Phil Spitalny orchestra. His frequent solos on steel guitar, violin and banjo, and his appearances on radio station WJAM operated by Willard Storage Batteries resulted in his unique style of playing the plectrum banjo. In the mid-1920s Peabody moved to New York where he recorded and organized his own band. When the American Record Corporation signed him to a long term contract, a flood of recordings on many labels (Regal, Banner, Oriole, Domino, Cameo, etc.) followed. The development of his famous personal style of playing is apparent from the velocity recordings through the improved technology of orthophonic recordings. Johnny Baier, American Banjo Museum

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