He was awarded two Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6157 Hollywood Boulevard and for Radio at 1601 Vine Street in Hollywood.
(meta data) TITLE: Paul Whiteman - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times Hollywood Star Walk # Paul Whiteman Ray Lee Jackson ### Stars Music: North side of the 6100 block of Hollywood Boulevard Radio: West side of the 1600 block of Vine Street Bandleader | Jazz Musician March 28, 1890 in Denver, Colo. Dec. 29, 1967 of heart attack in Doylestown, Pa. Paul Whiteman, called the "King of Jazz" during the big-band era, was famous for combining the often competing styles of jazz and classical music and made "Rhapsody in Blue" an American classic. "I never believed that jazz was as bad as the symphonists thought it was, nor that symphony was as bad as the jazz lovers thought it was," Whiteman once said. In 1919, after forming his first orchestra, Denver-born Whiteman introduced his "symphonic jazz" to the East Coast at Atlantic City, N.J., and the next year took it to Broadway. He first performed "Rhapsody in Blue" in 1924 in the first jazz concert ever given. During his career, he played before capacity audiences in New York's Aeolian Hall and Carnegie Hall, and played in several movies, including "King of Jazz" in 1930 and "Rhapsody in Blue" in 1945. — Associated Press in the Los Angeles Times Dec. 30, 1967 ## Related stars Bing CrosbyBand member Jimmy DorseyBand member Tommy DorseyBand member George & Ira GershwinProfessional ## Points of interest Click for more information ## Share a thought about Paul Whiteman Did you ever meet Paul Whiteman? Share your memory. Which other stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame have connections to Paul Whiteman? Are other places in the world important to Paul Whiteman? Does Paul Whiteman deserve this star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? If you enter anything in this field your comment will be treated as spam
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Paul Whiteman
Awards and honors.
In 2006 the Paul Whiteman Orchestra's 1928 recording of "Ol' Man River" with Paul Robeson on vocals was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The song was recorded on March 1, 1928, in New York and released as Victor 35912-A.
 In 1998, the 1920 Paul Whiteman recording of "Whispering" was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame. 
 Paul Whiteman's 1927 recording of "Rhapsody in Blue", the "electrical" version, was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1974. 
 He was inducted in the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1993. 
