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Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians taking a bow after a concert in 1942.
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Fred Waring's giant band takes a bow underneath the Watch Our Smoke Its Chesterfield ad, 1942.

Credit: Courtesy of Fred Waring's America Collection, The Pennsylvania State University.

By the late 1930s, Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians included a fifty-five piece jazz orchestra and large chorus that sang choral harmonies arranged by Waring. In 1947 Waring would begin annual choral workshops at his 600-acre Shawnee-on-Delaware Inn near Stroudsburg, PA., to teach others to sing like the "Pennsylvanians".

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