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Hymie Farberman

Hymie Farberman was born in Cherry Street on the east side of New York on June 13 of 1900 as the son of a Russian jewish family. He started taking piano lessons at the age of six, and sang as alto soloist of the Rabbi Kaplan's choir at the age of eight. After his piano lessons finished when he was 14 years old & he graduated from grammar school on June of 1914, Farberman worked as a pianist in a movie theater for about 2 weeks. He also studied with Charles Hambitzer, who possibly gave him harmony lessons & music theory, which may have furnished his reading skills. Hymie Farberman took trumpet lessons from Joe Korff (trumpeter of the Loew's Theater Orchestra) for six months. He became a member of the Musician's Union with 15 years old, and worked his way to the fame as sideman for the "Greenwich Village Artists Colony", and in 1916, he worked at Kaiser Gardens from Coney Island and led his own 5 piece jazz band at the Academy Theater for a while. He was discovered & hired by alto saxophonist [a=Bennie Krueger] for his orchestra (which was working at Delmonico's Society Club), and it was with him when Farberman made his first recordings for Gennett, Okeh, Grey Gull, Emerson, Pathé Actuelle, and of course, Brunswick. Farberman stayed with Krueger's band until 1927. That was the start of a long and prosperous recording career which had him working with the aforementioned Bennie Krueger, [a=Walter Haenschen], [a=Sam Lanin], [a=Adrian Schubert], [a=Louis Katzman], [a=Harry Horlick], [a=Arthur Lange], [a=Nathan Glantz], [a=Joe Raymond], [a=Dave Kaplan (2)], [a=Joseph Samuels], [a=Ben Selvin], [a=Nat Shilkret], [a=Justin Ring], [a=Jack Stillman], [a=Harry Reser], [a=Harry Raderman] (he was on the recordings of "Jealous" & "After The Storm" for the New York Recording Laboratories group and issued on Paramount 20325 made by Raderman's band), [a=Fred Rich], the [a=Green Brothers' Novelty Band], [a=Domenico Savino] (under the name of D. Onivas), [a=Lou Gold], [a=Max Terr], [a=Zez Confrey], [a=Austin Wylie], [a=Willie Farmer], the [a=Oriole Orchestra] led by [a=Dan Russo] & [a=Ted Fiorito], [a=Mike Speciale], [a=Bert Hirsch], [a=Mike Markel], [a=Billy Wynne] & many other bandleaders of the day, in addition to doing his only recording session as leader for Gennett. He backed several vocalists such as [a=Irving Kaufman], [a=Oscar Grogan], [a=Aunt Jemima], [a=Margaret Young], [a=Seger Ellis], [a=Vaughn De Leath], [a=Lee Morse] & many others. Farberman did radio & movie soundtrack work with [a=Erno Rapee], [a=Nathaniel W. Finston], [a=David Mendoza (2)] & [a=Harold Levey]. After suffering a coronary on December of 1940, Farberman retired from music and moved to Williamsburg, Virginia, where he resided with his wife Mary until 1961, when he moved to Florida, and later on, to Hillandale before ending eventually in Broward, Florida. Hymie Farberman died in Broward, Florida on October 3 of 1981 at the age of 81 years old.