Harry Leader and his Band
Harry Leader, who has been a figure in the musical world for over sixteen years, owes most of his success to the training given him as a youngster by his father, who was Russian bo:n. and was a professor of music in Russia before coming over here. He it was who taught Harry music. starting him on the violin from which he went to saxophone, clarinet, and piano, and to the technique of arranging. Long before the war Harry Leader toured all over the Continent with a part-American band ; left it to go into business ; left business to form his own band, and from then has never forsaken music. He first broadcast in 1934 in the ' First Time Here ' series, in the course of which he discovered and introduced to the microphone many who are now big names in broadcasting.