Chester Gaylord, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetChester Gaylord
American singer
Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1899
Date of Death: 01-Jul-1984
Profession: singer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Chester Gaylord
- Chester Gaylord (February 24, 1899 – July 1, 1984) was a vocalist and among the most active of recording artists in the United States during the late 1920s through the early 1930s.
- He was known as The Whispering Serenader on radio and on his phonograph records. He began his career as a singer and announcer for radio station WTAG in Worcester, Massachusetts in the early 1920s.
- Chester Gaylord's first recordings (in 1920) were saxophone solos for Thomas Edison, whom he had met.
- In 1923, he signed with Columbia records and made a number of vocal records for them.
- His popularity spread rapidly leading Brunswick Records (the second largest record company in the United States in the 1920s) to offer him an exclusive contract.
- He became one of the labels most prolific vocalists during the late 1920s.
- After the Warner Brothers bought out the Brunswick Record company in April 1930 a reorganization occurred and Chester Gaylord's contact was one of numerous artists whose contract was not renewed.
- Chester Gaylord continued to be popular on radio throughout the early 1930s until the introduction of swing music, in 1935, a type of music that was unsuitable to his style of singing.
- From 1929 to 1931, he was a featured vocalist on NBC radio on the Top Notchers Coca-Cola Radio Program with Leonard Joy and his All String Orchestra.Gaylord moved to WBZ in Boston in the late 40s, and completed his broadcasting career there.
- He retired sometime in the mid-1960s.
- During his retirement years he lived in Sterling, Massachusetts.
- He regularly played 1920s and 1930s songs on piano at The Old Timer, an Irish Pub in neighboring Clinton, Mass.
- According to Gaylord's obituary, he was still performing right up until a few weeks before his death.
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