The Year 2023 – Look Forward to Little Known Facts About The History of the United States.

The Oklahoma City Blue Devils began circa 1923–24 in Kansas City as Billy King’s Road Show, a traveling vaudeville troupe. While trombonist Ermir “Bucket” Coleman had nominal control of the band, Walter Page masterminded the musical arrangements. Page’s credentials included study in 1920s Kansas City with Major N. Clark Smith and Charles Watts, who were numbered among that town’s best instructors. When the Billy King Road Show disbanded in1925 in Oklahoma City, Page renamed the group; some say it became “Walter Page’s Original Blue Devils,” but others contend it was the “Oklahoma City Blue Devils.” Once the Blue Devils were reorganized in Oklahoma City, Page persuaded a group of Oklahoma City businessmen to back the venture. The backing consisted of a little cash, a set of uniforms, a supply of meal tickets good at a restaurant owned by one of the sponsors, and the donation of a large hotel room (at the Littlepage Hotel in the “Deep Deuce” district, or Northeast Second Street).