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Welte-Mignon (Licensee) DeLuxe Roll "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" (Music: Larry Shay; Lyrics: Charles Tobias & William Jerome) © 1928 Played by “Holbrook King” (likely a pseudonym for roll editor Howard Lutter.
Howard Harry Lutter (1889-1959) was a native of Newark, New Jersey. Of German ancestry, he was a pupil of Prof. Karg and Rafael Joseffy. In the mid ‘teens he joined the Bennett & White Company and arranged piano rolls for their Artempo label. He left the company in 1920 and worked for the Melodee division of the Aeolian Corporation. Within a year he joined the Republic Player Roll Company and devoted his talents to the arranging of popular music for the Welte-Mignon (Licensee) reproducing piano rolls, a position that lasted until the stock market crash took its toll on the piano roll business. He also performed on Newark radio station WCBX during the 1920s. For the Welte he arranged hundreds of jazz-influenced dance rolls for well-known pianists such as Vee Lawnhurst, Ralph Rainger, Harry Perrella and Johnny Johnson. At one time Lutter was reportedly the leader of an excellent orchestra. He was also the composer of "Acme March" (1918), “Hot Stuff” (1918), “Hindu Dreams” (1920), the tango “Maribelle” (1924) and “Forever, And Then For A Day”(1920). Little is known of his career after 1930. He died at the age of 70 in Los Angeles in 1959.
Welte-Mignon (Licensee) DeLuxe Roll "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" (Music: Larry Shay; Lyrics: Charles Tobias & William Jerome) © 1928 Played by “Holbrook King” (likely a pseudonym for roll editor Howard Lutter.
Howard Harry Lutter (1889-1959) was a native of Newark, New Jersey. Of German ancestry, he was a pupil of Prof. Karg and Rafael Joseffy. In the mid ‘teens he joined the Bennett & White Company and arranged piano rolls for their Artempo label. He left the company in 1920 and worked for the Melodee division of the Aeolian Corporation. Within a year he joined the Republic Player Roll Company and devoted his talents to the arranging of popular music for the Welte-Mignon (Licensee) reproducing piano rolls, a position that lasted until the stock market crash took its toll on the piano roll business. He also performed on Newark radio station WCBX during the 1920s. For the Welte he arranged hundreds of jazz-influenced dance rolls for well-known pianists such as Vee Lawnhurst, Ralph Rainger, Harry Perrella and Johnny Johnson. At one time Lutter was reportedly the leader of an excellent orchestra. He was also the composer of "Acme March" (1918), “Hot Stuff” (1918), “Hindu Dreams” (1920), the tango “Maribelle” (1924) and “Forever, And Then For A Day”(1920). Little is known of his career after 1930. He died at the age of 70 in Los Angeles in 1959.
