Anson Weeks (February 14, 1896, Oakland, California – February 7, 1969, Sacramento, California)[1] was an American pianist and the leader of a popular west coast dance band from the late 1920s through the 1960s, primarily in San Francisco.
[1] By the late 1920s he led a popular regional orchestra and started recording for Columbia in 1928.
He garnerered favorable attention in late 1931 on the "Lucky Strike Magic Carpet" radio program.
Weeks was involved in an auto accident in 1941 and was out of the band business for several years, starting up again in the late 1940s.
He signed with the local Fantasy label in the early 1950s and did a series of dance albums (Dancin' With Anson) that were quite popular regionally (and were still in the catalog through the 1970s).