Jack Teter

Jack Teter was born in the Ozarks 1902 and moved to Wisconsin in the 1920s, playing banjo for Bill Carlsen’s Orchestra. However, during the time he was recording with Carlsen for Paramount, he was also pursuing his country roots by performing as a soloist and with the prolific hillbilly team of Frank Welling & John McGhee. During the depression, Teter ceased recording, but continued as a radio host in Wisconsin known as “The Song Doctor.” Keeping himself before the public, Teter was the surprise hit of 1950 with a vocal version of an old jazz standard, “Johnson Rag.” With his group, the Jack Teter Trio, his career was rejuvenated and he enjoyed further success in the early 1950's. He died in 1987.