It is always difficult to try and write about
bands in the 1930s and 1940s. You can
never tell who is in them. Like bands
today the name may stay the same but the members will come and go. The ad above is for the Club Casa Lona, south
of Delmar. It would become later, Jim’s
restaurant, and then finally the Cozy Cabin Restaurant.
The Harmony Kings were out of Pocomoke, as it says
The Shores Finest Colored quartet, and that is about all I know about
them. Now Al’s Cavaliers; and Alberta
Drew, Blues Singer. Again not much is known
about Al’s Cavaliers but if Alberta Drew (17 years old in 1936) sang with them
there is a very good chance that her brother, Eddie Drew, was in the group
also. Alberta Drew ( Mary Alberta Drew -
1919-2011) and Eddie ( Anthony Edward Drew 1909-1979) were the daughter and son
of Albert V. Drew and Magdalana Medwick Drew.
All were from New Jersey and moved to the Bridgeville area about 1935. Eddie
had a band and played at a number of night clubs on Delmarva. Eventually he would make his living as a
music instructor and his sister and he would play every amateur musical/theater
production in the area. They also played
and sang at weddings and he continued to perform in bars and night clubs
above 1964
Alberta would marry George Samuel Smith and
divorce him in 1955. She would later
marry William Robert Favinger (1914-1988) and live in Pots Net.
In 1957 Victor R. Adams , Eddie Drew and Alberta
Drew Smith wrote a song called “Back Home To Delaware” that was played at the
Delmarva Chicken festival. Below is the
song or at least the words.
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