Leroy Shield
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American film score and radio composer, pianist, session musician (1893-1962)
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1893-10-02
- Active to
- 1962-01-09
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A native of Waseca, Minnesota, Shield was an employee of RCA Victor's National Broadcasting Company, for which he composed and conducted on-air musical pieces. Starting approximately 1922 (seven years before the Victor Talking Machine was bought by RCA and became RCA Victor), Shield was a Victor house musician, conducting and providing piano accompaniment on many hundreds of popular and USF (foreign language and ethnic recordings for issue in the United States) Victor recordings. <a href="https:
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Waseca
- Place of death
- Florida
- Occupation
- session musician
- Employer
- Victor Talking Machine Company
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- celesta
- Record label
- RCA Records
- Image
- Leroy Bernard Shield (1893-1962) in 1925.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1893-10-02
- date of death
- 1962-01-09
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