American dance bandleader, saxophonist (tenor) and clarinetist.
Born: September 12, 1910 in Brooklyn, New York Died: February 23, 1981 in Los Angeles, California.

His band Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm orchestra charted 38 times in the U.S. between 1936 and 1943. The group had seven #1's including Did I Remember? and In the Chapel in the Moonlight in 1936, and That Old Feeling and The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down and Thanks for the Memory in 1937, and Cathedral in the Pines #1 in 1938, and South of the Border (Down Mexico Way) #1 in 1939.