Today is the birthday of Percy Oakes (1900-1997). A West Virginia native, he first performed with an amateur minstrel show as a child. He moved to Chicago and found a job as a printer in the nineteen-teens, taking lessons in dance and guitar. This led to work as a chorus boy in a touring musical, […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:30AM on July 17, 2013