Jack Stalcup Orchestra

The Jack Stalcup Orchestra was a Midwestern territory band that operated out of Paducah, Kentucky by Jack Stalcup.

Stalcup was a resident of Metropolis, Illinois. In 1950, the band members, traveling in a schoolbus with seats that didn't recline, played many one-nighters, with the musicians sleeping overnight on the bus. At one point, the band played 30 one-nighters in a row. In the Summer of 1950, the band recorded for Oriole Records in Chicago. The session took place at a radio station in a skyscraper in the Loop. The orchestra would sometime play at the Purple Cracker in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. [ [http://www.semissourian.com/story/1149779.html Cape Girardeau's 'other side'] ]

Many mid-Western musicians played at one time in the Stalcup Orchestra including trumpeter Jerry Ford who now runs his own orchestra. [ [http://www.ket.org/cgi/foxweb.exe/db/ket/dmps/Programs?do=topic&topicid=MIXM020337&id=MIXM Southern Jazz] ]

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