Ted Lewis

Lewis, Ted [né Theodore Leopold Friedman] (1891–1971), singer. Born in Circleville, Ohio, where he made his professional debut singing in a nickelodeon, he established the Ted Lewis Nut Band, playing what at the time was called “jazz.” By 1919 he was a headliner in vaudeville and in nightclubs. Lewis also performed on Broadway in such revues as Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolics (1919), several editions of Greenwich Village Follies, and Artists and Models of 1927. He would appear with his battered top hat and his clarinet and ask with a mocking sentimentality, “Is ev'rybody happy?” Performing in his cheerily forlorn style he made famous such songs as “When My Baby Smiles at Me” and “Me and My Shadow.”

Ted Lewis may refer to:

• Ted Lewis (baseball) (1872-1936), Edward Morgan Lewis
• Ted Lewis (musician) (1892-1971), US bandleader, musician, entertainer, singer
• Ted Lewis (writer) (1940-1982), English crime novelist
• Ted "Kid" Lewis (1893-1970), world boxing champion
• Ted Lewis (voice actor)
• Ted Lewis (computer scientist), Professor of Computer Science and National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School.
• Duris Maxwell, Canadian drummer who has used the alias Ted Lewis

See also

• Edward Lewis (disambiguation)
• Theodore B. Lewis (1843 – 1899), early Mormon leader

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