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Edgar Hayes & His Orch. - Satan Takes A Holiday (Clinton), Decca 1937

NOTE: Edgar Hayes (1904 -1979) American jazz pianist and bandleader. Hayes graduated with a degree in music at Wilberforce University in the early 1920s. In 1922 he toured with Fess Williams, and formed his own group, the Blue Grass Buddies, in Ohio in 1924. From 1931 Hayes played in the Mills Blue Rhythm Band. From 1937 to 1941 he led his own orchestra, his most popular recording was a version of the song "Stardust", recorded in 1938. He moved to California in 1942, and led a quartet there until the end of the decade. Following this he played solo, continuing to perform into the 1970s.