Vincent Lopez

Vincent Lopez was born on Dec 30, 1895 in USA. Vincent Lopez's big-screen debut came with The Big Broadcast directed by Frank Tuttle in 1932, strarring Orchestra Leader (uncredited).

Sadly little known and under-appreciated today, Brooklyn-born Lopez was already leading his own band by age 22 and was one of the first well-known band leaders to emerge in the 1920's, thanks to his exposure on the new medium of radio. In his day, he was as widely known as 'Paul Whiteman'; the both of them among the first to keenly utilize radio as a means of self-promotion. Lopez' trademark song was "Nola" (by Felix Arndt) that was invariably accompanied by his familiar "Lopez speaking!" intro, and with it, his popularity continued well into the 1940's. Numerous now-famous musicians passed through his band's ranks, including