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Chick Bullock's Levee Loungers - Bend Down, Sister ~1931

Charles "Chick" Bullock was born on September 16, 1898 in Montana to English immigrant parents. He started out in vaudeville and provided vocals and music for silent movies. His career really took off when he started singing vocals for orchestras and bands in the late 1920's, becoming one of a group of freelance vocalists (others like this included Smith Ballew, Scrappy Lambert, Irving Kaufman, Arthur Fields, and Dick Robertson). This progressed to singing for the likes of Duke Ellington, Luis Russell, Cab Calloway, Bunny Berigan, Bill Coleman, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Venuti, and Eddie Lang in the 1930's. He would also play for house bands, mostly for American Record Corporation labels like Melotone, Perfect, Banner, Romeo and in our case today, Oriole. Many of these records were issued under the name Chick Bullock and his Levee Loungers. Today's song is one of those songs, titled "I've Got The World On A String". Originally composed by Walter Donaldson. and was recorded on December 10, 1931. The 1942 musicians strike in which no American Federation of Musicians union member could record outside of radio broadcast spelled the end of Bullock's career. In all, he recorded over 500 songs throughout his career. He moved to California in 1946 and opened a real estate company. He would remain there until his death in 1981.