Ted's given name was George Thornton Stell.
He was a Bandleader, Radio-TV Personality, Organist, Songwriter, Singer, and Disc Jockey.
He worked closely with such people as Betty Hutton, Perry Como, Joe Reisman, Hugo Winterhalter, Chet Atkins, the Fontane Sisters, Sig Romberg, and Mitchell Ayers.
Best remembered today as the orchestra leader of Cavalcade of the Stars radio program, along with such other shows as Chesterfield Supper Club, MGM Screen Test.
In 1946 he became the music director of the Hollywood radio station KMPC. In the late 1940s he made a successful transition to television, first as host of Cavalcade of Bands and as host of The Ted Steele Show (1948-50) and as a regular on NBC's Monitor.
Steele returned to being a disc jockey just at the start of the rock 'n' roll revolution and had a program called 4 hour radio program American Bandstand on New York's WMCA.. He then had his own Ted Steele Show on WMCA where he hosted new talent like Buddy Holly (August 27, 1957), and Holly's appearance on the show helped propel That'll Be the Day to the top of the charts. Steele also did local dances and shows. He left to do a TV dance show, and returned to WMCA.
In 1958 he also had a five-day Ted Steele's Band Stand concert at the Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn. The songs he wrote include Sweet Dreams, a hit for Jo Stafford and later covered by K.D. Laing, Love Is Wonderful Everywhere, Friends, Happiness No. 5, Mary Smith, Two Men, Democracy, It's A Man's World, Love Passed By etc..
He was married to:
Ceil Loman
Marie Windsor
Doris Brooks
He was a Bandleader, Radio-TV Personality, Organist, Songwriter, Singer, and Disc Jockey.
He worked closely with such people as Betty Hutton, Perry Como, Joe Reisman, Hugo Winterhalter, Chet Atkins, the Fontane Sisters, Sig Romberg, and Mitchell Ayers.
Best remembered today as the orchestra leader of Cavalcade of the Stars radio program, along with such other shows as Chesterfield Supper Club, MGM Screen Test.
In 1946 he became the music director of the Hollywood radio station KMPC. In the late 1940s he made a successful transition to television, first as host of Cavalcade of Bands and as host of The Ted Steele Show (1948-50) and as a regular on NBC's Monitor.
Steele returned to being a disc jockey just at the start of the rock 'n' roll revolution and had a program called 4 hour radio program American Bandstand on New York's WMCA.. He then had his own Ted Steele Show on WMCA where he hosted new talent like Buddy Holly (August 27, 1957), and Holly's appearance on the show helped propel That'll Be the Day to the top of the charts. Steele also did local dances and shows. He left to do a TV dance show, and returned to WMCA.
In 1958 he also had a five-day Ted Steele's Band Stand concert at the Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn. The songs he wrote include Sweet Dreams, a hit for Jo Stafford and later covered by K.D. Laing, Love Is Wonderful Everywhere, Friends, Happiness No. 5, Mary Smith, Two Men, Democracy, It's A Man's World, Love Passed By etc..
He was married to:
Ceil Loman
Marie Windsor
Doris Brooks
Ted's given name was George Thornton Stell.
He was a Bandleader, Radio-TV Personality, Organist, Songwriter, Singer, and Disc Jockey.
He worked closely with such people as Betty Hutton, Perry Como, Joe Reisman, Hugo Winterhalter, Chet Atkins, the Fontane Sisters, Sig Romberg, and Mitchell Ayers.
Best remembered today as the orchestra leader of Cavalcade of the Stars radio program, along with such other shows as Chesterfield Supper Club, MGM Screen Test.
In 1946 he became the music director of the Hollywood radio station KMPC. In the late 1940s he made a successful transition to television, first as host of Cavalcade of Bands and as host of The Ted Steele Show (1948-50) and as a regular on NBC's Monitor.
Steele returned to being a disc jockey just at the start of the rock 'n' roll revolution and had a program called 4 hour radio program American Bandstand on New York's WMCA.. He then had his own Ted Steele Show on WMCA where he hosted new talent like Buddy Holly (August 27, 1957), and Holly's appearance on the show helped propel That'll Be the Day to the top of the charts. Steele also did local dances and shows. He left to do a TV dance show, and returned to WMCA.
In 1958 he also had a five-day Ted Steele's Band Stand concert at the Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn. The songs he wrote include Sweet Dreams, a hit for Jo Stafford and later covered by K.D. Laing, Love Is Wonderful Everywhere, Friends, Happiness No. 5, Mary Smith, Two Men, Democracy, It's A Man's World, Love Passed By etc..
He was married to:
Ceil Loman
Marie Windsor
Doris Brooks
He was a Bandleader, Radio-TV Personality, Organist, Songwriter, Singer, and Disc Jockey.
He worked closely with such people as Betty Hutton, Perry Como, Joe Reisman, Hugo Winterhalter, Chet Atkins, the Fontane Sisters, Sig Romberg, and Mitchell Ayers.
Best remembered today as the orchestra leader of Cavalcade of the Stars radio program, along with such other shows as Chesterfield Supper Club, MGM Screen Test.
In 1946 he became the music director of the Hollywood radio station KMPC. In the late 1940s he made a successful transition to television, first as host of Cavalcade of Bands and as host of The Ted Steele Show (1948-50) and as a regular on NBC's Monitor.
Steele returned to being a disc jockey just at the start of the rock 'n' roll revolution and had a program called 4 hour radio program American Bandstand on New York's WMCA.. He then had his own Ted Steele Show on WMCA where he hosted new talent like Buddy Holly (August 27, 1957), and Holly's appearance on the show helped propel That'll Be the Day to the top of the charts. Steele also did local dances and shows. He left to do a TV dance show, and returned to WMCA.
In 1958 he also had a five-day Ted Steele's Band Stand concert at the Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn. The songs he wrote include Sweet Dreams, a hit for Jo Stafford and later covered by K.D. Laing, Love Is Wonderful Everywhere, Friends, Happiness No. 5, Mary Smith, Two Men, Democracy, It's A Man's World, Love Passed By etc..
He was married to:
Ceil Loman
Marie Windsor
Doris Brooks
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