The Peg Meyer’s Melody Kings were a late 1910s through early 1920s Missouri Swing band. The band got its start in 1919 during lunch hour at Cape Central High School gym, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The band was initially called the Agony Four . It consisted of four players: Jess Stacy (piano), Martell Lovell (violin/ trombone) Bergman Snider (drums), and Peg Meyer (soprano sax). Within the year, the band would be joined by Bill Gadbois on the clarinet. The name Agony Four lasted only a short time before the more marketable Peg Meyer’s Melody Kings was chosen.