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Gloria Parker (Gloria Rosenthal) was born on 20 August, 1921 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., is an American musician and bandleader (1921–2022). Discover Gloria Parker's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 101 years old?

Popular As Gloria Rosenthal
Occupation Musician · bandleader · composer · actress · radio host
Age 101 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 20 August, 1921
Birthday 20 August
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Date of death 2022
Died Place Syosset, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1921

Gloria Parker (née Rosenthal; August 20, 1921April 13, 2022) was an American musician and bandleader who had a radio show during the big band era.

Parker was born in Brooklyn on August 20, 1921.

Her father, Jack, was the owner of a garage; her mother, Rose (Glickman), was a violinist with Mark Warnow & the Hit Parade Orchestra.

Her grandfather immigrated to the United States from the modern-day Czech Republic, and taught her how to play glasses.

She started learning the violin at the age of four or five, playing a quarter-sized version of the instrument at the Brooklyn Academy of Music during the latter year.

Parker worked as a songwriter, bandleader and musician.

She performed with her orchestras playing the marimba, glass harp or musical glasses, piano, organ, violin, viola, vibraphone, xylophone, guitar, drums and all Latin percussion instruments.

1942

The big band era included a musicians' recording ban from August 1942 to November 1944.

The union that a majority of musicians belonged to did not allow its members to record until the record companies such as CBS agreed to pay them each time their music was played on the radio.

This happened after an earlier ban of ASCAP songs from radio stations which led to the demise of this style of swing music.

Parker emerged as a spokesperson for musicians and earned the title "Famous One Share Stockholder" in her battle for musician rights with CBS, RCA, and Time Inc. The national media would anxiously await Parker's head to head confrontations with CBS founder William S. Paley and RCA chairman of the board David Sarnoff at the annual stockholder meetings.

1950

The Gloria Parker Show was broadcast nightly from 1950 to 1957, coast to coast on WABC.

She played the marimba, organ, and singing glasses (glass harp).

Dubbed Princess of the Marimba, she conducted the 21-piece Swingphony from the Kelly Lyceum Ballroom in Buffalo, New York.

This was the largest big band led by a female bandleader.

Edgar Battle and Walter Thomas were arrangers for the Swingphony.

During the early 1950s, she hosted a radio program with Vincent Lopez from the Taft Hotel in Manhattan called Shake the Maracas.

She hosted an evening broadcast on WOR from the New York City Hotel Edison.

Parker would open the show with the glass harp or musical glasses and feature the popular latin sound on her marimba with her orchestra.

Parker was also known for her starring roles in music films (Soundies), such as Broadway and Main with Stepin Fetchit, Four Letters, Here Comes the Fattest Man in Town with comedic personality Mel Blanc as Santa Claus, Penthouse Party featuring Parker playing the glass harp, and Wise Men Say, all produced and directed by William Forest Crouch.

She composed the music and wrote the lyrics for the films.

Soundies were viewed on a Panoram, a coin-operated film jukebox in bars, nightclubs, restaurants, amusement parks, and community centers.

1952

Starting in 1952, Parker had her own program, The Gloria Parker Show, on WJZ-TV in New York City.

It featured her all-female Swingphony, the largest big band led by a woman.

1960

Parker was engaged to Barney Young until his death during the late 1960s.

He was her manager and co-wrote several songs with her.

She resided in Laurel Hollow on Long Island at the time of her death.

Parker died on April 13, 2022, at a hospital in Syosset, New York.

She was 100 years old.