Leroy Shield

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1893-10-02

Active to

1962-01-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

256

Total plays

2,495

A native of Waseca, Minnesota, Shield was an employee of RCA Victor's National Broadcasting Company, for which he composed and conducted on-air musical pieces. Starting approximately 1922 (seven years before the Victor Talking Machine was bought by RCA and became RCA Victor), Shield was a Victor house musician, conducting and providing piano accompaniment on many hundreds of popular and USF (foreign language and ethnic recordings for issue in the United States) Victor recordings. <a href="https:

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,620x

2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,704x

3. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 9,264x

4. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,261x

5. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 8,012x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Waseca

Place of death

Florida

Occupation

session musician

Employer

Victor Talking Machine Company

Languages spoken

English language

Instrument

celesta

Record label

RCA Records

Image

Leroy Bernard Shield (1893-1962) in 1925.jpg

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