- Wrote the songs "You Call Everybody Darling" and "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked A Cake".
- Drummer and vocalist, who started his first band in Chicago in 1933, with subsequent residencies at the Blackhawk Restaurant and the Sherman Hotel.
- His band's theme songs were "Sweet Words and Music" and "Mairzy Doats".
- His popularity peaked in the Chicago area during the height of the Big Band era.
- He composed over 300 songs, some alone and others as a collaborator, most frequently with his brother, Ben Trace, while also writing a considerable number of songs using the pseudonyms Clem Watts or Bob Hart. Among the Ben Trace/Al Trace collaborations was his most successful recording, "You Call Everybody Darlin'", which was a #1 hit in 1948.
- His first jobs during the early 1920s included playing the drums and singing with various bands, until he formed his own band in 1933, the year in which Chicago was celebrating its centennial with a World's Fair officially known as A Century of Progress International Exposition. The band's first engagement in May 1933 was at the Fair's French pavilion and, when the Fair closed for the winter in November, he remained in Chicago, beginning a long engagement at the Blackhawk Restaurant, followed by three years at the Sherman Hotel.
- Al Trace was an American songwriter and orchestra leader of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
- A native of Chicago, Trace played professional baseball before deciding on music as a career.
- In 1975, shortly after his 74th birthday, he retired from active work as a songwriter and bandleader and joined with another ex-bandleader to form a booking agency in Scottsdale, Arizona.
- Al Trace and His Silly Symphonists was one of several comedy ensembles in the early 1940s. In February 1945, radio stations introduced "Sioux City Sue", performed by Al Trace and His Silly Symphonists (National Records 5007). The song became a hit.
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