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September 16, 1898 ~ Charles Bullock, commonly known as jazz, dance band singer Chick Bullock, born in Montana, USA ~ A popular session vocalist during the late 1920s and 1930s, Bullock has sung on some 500 sides working with the likes of Duke Ellington, Luis Russell, Cab Calloway, Bunny Berigan, Bill Coleman, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey, Joe Venuti, and Eddie Lang. Bullock rarely performed live because of a disfigurement due to an eye disease. In the early 1940s the recording ban, a union strike over royalty payments, effectively ended Bullock's recording career. Bullock would retire from music altogether two years later, and has spent the remainder of his life working in real estate ~ Bullock passed away in 1981