LeRoy Shield

about

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. He also worked as a part-time employee for the Hal Roach film studio, composing countless background themes that became associated with such Roach comedy series as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, ZaSu Pitts and Thelma Todd, and Charley Chase. One of his compositions for the 1930 Our Gang 1930 short Teacher's Pet, "Good Old Days," became the theme song of the series. His 1930 song "Beautiful Lady" was used as the theme song for the Pitts and Todd films. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

albums

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That's what I call sweet music - American Dance Orchestras of the 1920s - from R. Crumb's 78 rpm record collection

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Little Rascals

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The Beau Hunks Play The Original Little Rascals Music

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The Catcus Album: Original Samples

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That's What I Call Sweet Music: R.Crumbs 78 rpm collection

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Laurel & Hardy's Music Box

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That's what I call sweet music

Television's Greatest Hits

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The Cactus Album: Original Samples

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Five Sax at the Movies

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The Little Rascals

Laurel and Hardy

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