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Mild romantic balladeer Eddy Howard was a huge name in the 1940s and early '50s. Reeling off a few dozen hit singles in the post-war years, he rarely went uptempo or derivated from good-natured paeans to heart-to-heart bliss. Howard left Stanford Medical School in the early '30s to join <a href="spotify:artist:4hYTJQXn1WXhxnG5fHoGd4">Dick Jurgens</a>' band as a vocalist, and recorded eight hits with <a href="spotify:artist:4hYTJQXn1WXhxnG5fHoGd4">Jurgens</a> in 1939 and 1940. During this era, he also made some small-band jazz sides under John Hammond's auspices at Columbia; <a href="spotify:artist:0tg5uVI4VjzZOFzBryJZii">Teddy Wilson</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:0WdDpEeDIDmtYh5sqRrdI6">Charlie Christian</a> were among the musicians who supported him at these sessions. By 1941, Eddy had started his own band, and hit the jackpot with a number one single in 1946, "To Each His Own." "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons," "My Adobe Hacienda," "I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder," "Room Full of Roses," "Sin (It's No Sin)," and "Auf Weidersehn Sweetheart" were some of the biggest smashes he enjoyed prior to the mid-'50s, when the emergence of rock & roll displaced him from the airwaves. He was a fixture on the casino circuit when he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1963. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi
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