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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I couldn't find any information on Johnny Black or Al Graham's Orchestra.
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Graham fronted one of the lesser dance bands of the 1930s and 1940s. Here's a brief review from Billboard Magazine, January 23, 1943.
[source: Google Books]
I haven't found any evidence that Al Graham's Orchestra ever made any records, which helps explain why they are virtually unknown now.
There was a pianist in the 1920s and 1930s named Johnny Black who was well known as a stage performer. He also wrote a song called "Paper Doll" several years before the Mills Brothers turned it into a huge hit record. However, Black was murdered in 1936, a year before Clara Bow's It Cafe opened. So the Johnny Black that appeared with Al Graham must be a different one.