"but Mr. Weens escapes me - is he likely to feature in Folk America tonight or is he a good ol'boy?"

Well, Ted Weems was a very popular band leader in the US from the mid 1920s through the mid 1950s.

His early efforts were "novelty" and "hot jazz", the latter a bit closer to the Paul Whiteman school than the New Orleans style.

Like Fred Waring, Ted Weems was Pennsylvania Dutch as we call it (German) descent. He was a trained musician and did the most important thing an entertainer can do: entertain people.

He moved easily into "sweet" style of the Big Band Era and was very popular with the average (musically) unsophisticated people. Folk, as interpreted on Mudcat, is not where this guy lived.