Nat Shilkret & His Orchestra - I Know That You Know, HMV 1927 vocal is by Frank Bessinger (?). + Informações

"Glad Rag Doll" Words by Jack Yellen Music by Milton Ager and Dan Daugherty Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra Vocal by Harold "Scrappy" Lambert Recorded January 17, 1929, New York Victor 21855 Verse: Little painted lady with your lovely clothes, Where are you bound for, may I ask? What your diamonds cost you, Ev'ry -bod -y knows. All the world can see behind your mask. Chorus: All dolled up in glad rags, To -mor -row may turn to sad rags, They call you Glad Rag Doll. Admired, desired, By lovers who soon grow tired, Poor little Glad Rag Doll. You're just a pretty toy they like to play with; You're not the kind they choose to grow old and gray with, Don't make this the end dear, It's never too late to mend, dear, Poor little Glad Rag Doll.. + Informações

Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra, Vocal chorus: Franklyn Baur - Hallalujah! (Robin/Grey/Youmans), Victor 1927 NOTE: This marvellous evergreen, played by the marvellous Nat Shilkret's band can also be heard from 1930s gramophone at: pl.youtube.com. + Informações

The Sidewalks Of New York- Nat Shilkret Orchestra on ViS 21493-A.Lewis James on vocal.. + Informações

Dancing with tears in my eyes. + Informações

"Alice Blue Gown" (1929) Waltz The Troubadours Conducted by Nat Shilkret Orthophonic Victor 22117. + Informações

Amapola (J.LaCalle) - International Novelty Orchestra (Nat Shilkret), Victor 1926 NOTE: The passodoble "Amapola" was composed in 1924 by a Spanish composer Joseph LaCalle and for almost two decades remained relatively little known in Europe. In 1941, however, the new version transcribed into a fashionable rhumba-fox rhythm and recorded for Decca by Jimmie Dorsey Orchestra (with unforgetable vocals by Bob Eberle & Helen O'Connell) made it an international evergreen. In the slideshow are covers of two fashionable Spanish magazines from 1920/30s "Nuevo Mundo" and "Blanco y Negro".. + Informações

"Gone" (1930) Fox-Trot Nat Shilkret Orchestra Vocal Chorus by Frank Luther This is one of my favorite Nat Shilkret records. =). + Informações

One of the MANY songs penned and recorded cashing in on the fame of America's own Charles Lindbergh and his now legendary nonstop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927. This is actually a re-make of a video I had on my page previously. The sound and video quality in my opinion was less than adequate, and seeing this was such a great version of this song, I wanted to re-do it to give it justice. To hear more great music like this,tune into our 24 hour internet radio station by going to our website at: www.americansoundarchive.com & clicking on the "Listen Live" icon. As always, thanks for watching and listening, and please feel free to comment.. + Informações

Nathaniel Shilkret (December 25, 1889 February 18, 1982) was born in New York, to an Austrian immigrant family. He was an American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive (A&R man), and music director (Victor, RKO and MGM). Shilkret was part of a very musically inclined family. His father played almost every instrument, and made certain that Nat and his three brothers were all accomplished musicians at an early age. Older brother Lew Shilkret was a fine pianist, but also worked in the insurance industry. Younger brother Jack Shilkret has a career that paralleled Nathaniel's career: he played clarinet and piano, recorded extensively, and conducted and played piano on the radio and in motion pictures. The youngest brother Harry Shilkret was a medical doctor, who worked his way through school playing trumpet, and continued to play trumpet frequently in Nathaniel's orchestras, particularly for radio broadcasts, long after he was a practicing allergist. Nathaniel Shilkret's brother-in-law, Nathaniel Finston, was violinist in many organizations in his youth and was musical director for Paramount and later for MGM, at one time being Nathaniel Shilkret's boss. Shilkret was a child prodigy, touring the country with the New York Boys' Orchestra from the ages of seven to thirteen as their clarinet soloist. From his late teens to mid-twenties he was a clarinetist in the best New York music organizations, including the New York Philharmonic Society (under Vassily .... + Informações

Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra with the Male Trio - - California Here I Come (Jolson, DeSylva, Meyer) Victor 1928. + Informações

Nat Shilkret & His Victor Dance Orchestra - You're Wonderful, Victor 1928. + Informações

Nat Shilkret & His Orchestra, Vocal by Gene Austin (?) - The Lonesome Road, Victor 1929 NOTE: Because of complaints about bad sound quality of the previous uploading, here is my another and hopefully better try.. + Informações

recorded 9/6/1928. + Informações

NAT SHILKRET (Nathaniel Schildkraut) was born to an Austrian-Jewish immigrant family in Queens, NY, in 1895. He showed remarkable musical ability as a child, first taking up the violin and the clarinet before age five. He studied piano with Charles Hambitzer, who also taught George Gershwin, and was a good enough musician so that he never had to rely on the civil engineering degree that he later earned in order to make a living -- rather, he played with the top orchestras in New York, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In 1924, he joined RCA Victor as director of the company's light music division, and founded the Victor Salon Orchestra, also sometimes called the Victor Orchestra, and he also led bands with names such as the Novelty Orchestra and Shilkret's Rhythm-Melodists. He became one of the top pop bandleaders of the late '20s and early '30s - his credits including hot dance numbers such as "Honey Bunch," "Sweet Thing," and "Zulu Wail," and pop numbers such as "Ain't She Sweet", "Me and My Shadow" - and he rivaled the popularity of Paul Whiteman. Indeed, their rivalry extended to the disputed credit of the first recording of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," which bore Whiteman's name (but, according to The Big Bands Database Plus, was actually the work of Shilkret). His success faltered in the early '30s, and he moved into radio in the mid-'30s and later out to Hollywood, where he joined the film industry as a composer. He passed away in 1982, well into his .... + Informações

Nat Shilkret & His Orch. - Broadway Baby Dolls (from the film: "Broadway Babies"), HMV 1929 (UK). + Informações

I'd Rather Be Blue Over You (Than Be Happy With Somebody Else) Words and music by Billy Rose and Fred Fisher From the film MY MAN starring Fannie Brice Performed by Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra Vocal chourus by Johnny Marvin Recorded December 13, 1928 Shilkret's increasing importance to Victor may have contributed to Paul Whiteman's decision to leave Victor in 1928 for Columbia, though Whiteman's Greatest incentive to switch companies was undoubtedly the astonishing sum of money Columbia offered. Sudhalter and Evans assert that Whiteman seemed to leave Victor for Columbia because of rivalry with Nat Shilkret over who recorded what material. Whiteman had for years assumed first crack at whatever songs he wanted, and the fact that Shilkret was more and more recording many of the same selections, thus undermining what Whiteman saw as his personal market, angered the 'King of Jazz. Thomas Delong's biography of Paul Whiteman, "Pops", gives more details about the conflicts between the two men. When Whiteman suffered setbacks during the April 21, 1927, session for the electrical remake of "Rhapsody in Blue". (Gershwin evidently disagreed about interpretation, feeling Whiteman was speeding passages too much in order to obtain a "jazzy" effect, and horn players failed to show up), Whiteman left the studio in a huff, later returning to find Shilkret on the podium --- Whiteman left again. Nat Shilkret reported to Brian Rust during an unpublished 1963 interview, "It was poor .... + Informações

Nathaniel Shilkret (Dec.25,1889 - Feb.18,1982) was born in New York, to an Austrian immigrant family. He was an American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive (A&R man), and music director (Victor, RKO and MGM). He was a child prodigy, touring the country with the New York Boys' Orchestra from the ages of seven to thirteen as their clarinet soloist. From his late teens to mid-twenties he was a clarinetist in the best New York music organizations, including the New York Philharmonic Society (under Vassily Safanov and Gustav Mahler), the New York Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, the Russian Symphony Orchestra, Victor Herbert's Orchestra, Arnold Volpe's Orchestra, Sousa's Grand Concert Band, Arthur Pryor's Band, and Edwin Franko Goldman's Band. He was also a rehearsal pianist for Walter Damrosch, playing for stars that included dancer Isadora Duncan. He joined the Foreign Department of the Victor Talking Machine Company (later to become RCA Victor) around 1915, and soon was made manager of the department. In 1926 he became "director of light music." He made many thousands of recordings, possibly more than anyone in recording history. His son Arthur estimated the sales of these records was of the order of 50 million copies. He was the conductor of choice for many of Victor's innovative recordings. He conducted the first record made by the "electric method," the first commercial Victor LP (in 1931!) and was the first conductor .... + Informações

Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra - Zulu Wail (Irving Bibo), Victor 1927. + Informações

My Man (Mon Homme) English Lyrics by Channing Pollock Music by: Maurice Yvain Performed by Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra Recorded December 13, 1928, New York The song "My Man" was was introduced with English lyrics in the Ziefeld Follies of 1921 (15th edition) In this show, Fanny sang My Man, the song which forever would be her trademark. It was an English version of the French song "Mon Homme" written by Maurice Yvain and translated by Channing Pollock. She also sang "Second hand Rose." Fanny Brice made six movies. Her first movie appearance was in the 1928 film MY MAN (now lost) for Warner Brothers, in which she played Fanny Brand, a poor girl who became a star. Famous numbers included in the movie are "I'm an Indian", "Second Hand Rose", "I'd rather be Blue" and of course "My Man." The movie premiered on December 21, 1928. Today, Fanny Brice is best known as the alter ego of Barbra Streisand, who portrayed her in the Broadway musical "Funny Girl" (1964) and its film version (1968, produced by Brice's son-in-law Ray Stark), as well as the sequel "Funny Lady" (1975). Singing Brice's old numbers ("My Man," "I'd Rather Be Blue") as well as original songs, Streisand brought a renovated Brice to the attention of fans too young to remember the original.. + Informações

Johnny Marvin (July 11, 1887 - 1945) was one of the great crooners of the 1920s, and his ukulele accompaniment was unsurpassed. In the 1920s, he was one of the most celebrated ukulele performers and crooners of the era. Billing himself as "Honey Duke and His Uke" then as "Johnny Marvin, the Ukulele Ace" his recorded output was prodigious. He even had a brand of ukulele named for him, which sported his face on the headstock and was noted for its unique airplane-shaped bridge. As the ukulele craze of the 20s faded, Marvin retired. When the stock market crashed, however, he lost his savings and came out of retirement, reinventing himself as a cowboy songwriting partner to Gene Autry, providing him with a second equally noteworthy career that lasted until his death. ------------------------ Nathaniel Shilkret (Dec.25,1889 - Feb.18,1982) was born in New York, to an Austrian immigrant family. He was an American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive (A&R man), and music director (Victor, RKO and MGM). He was a child prodigy, touring the country with the New York Boys' Orchestra from the ages of seven to thirteen as their clarinet soloist. From his late teens to mid-twenties he was a clarinetist in the best New York music organizations, including the New York Philharmonic Society (under Vassily Safanov and Gustav Mahler), the New York Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, the Russian Symphony Orchestra, Victor Herbert's Orchestra .... + Informações

Beautiful waltz! Charted at #1 in 1930. Vocal by Lewis James. Also #2 for the Regent Club Orchestra in 1930, #10 for Ruth Etting in 1930 and #26 for Mantovani and His Orchestra in April 1952. Nat is the gentleman in the center of this photo holding a baton. Also recorded by Ben Selvin, Joe Venuti, Al Bowlly, the Three Suns, Peggy Lee, Matt Monro, Gracie Fields, Kate Smith, the Four Tunes, Lawrence Welk, Victor Sylvester, and many others. Written by Joe Burke and Al Dubin. B-side of "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder for Somebody Else" by Bernie Cummins and His New Yorker Hotel Orchestra.. + Informações

Nathaniel Shilkret (December 25, 1889 February 18, 1982) was born in New York, to an Austrian immigrant family. He was an American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive (A&R man), and music director (Victor, RKO and MGM). Shilkret was part of a very musically inclined family. His father played almost every instrument, and made certain that Nat and his three brothers were all accomplished musicians at an early age. Older brother Lew Shilkret was a fine pianist, but also worked in the insurance industry. Younger brother Jack Shilkret has a career that paralleled Nathaniel's career: he played clarinet and piano, recorded extensively, and conducted and played piano on the radio and in motion pictures. The youngest brother Harry Shilkret was a medical doctor, who worked his way through school playing trumpet, and continued to play trumpet frequently in Nathaniel's orchestras, particularly for radio broadcasts, long after he was a practicing allergist. Nathaniel Shilkret's brother-in-law, Nathaniel Finston, was violinist in many organizations in his youth and was musical director for Paramount and later for MGM, at one time being Nathaniel Shilkret's boss. Shilkret was a child prodigy, touring the country with the New York Boys' Orchestra from the ages of seven to thirteen as their clarinet soloist. From his late teens to mid-twenties he was a clarinetist in the best New York music organizations, including the New York Philharmonic Society (under Vassily .... + Informações

1927 recording of "Lucky Lindy" by Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra No digital enhancements to this recording have been made.. + Informações

From my 78rpm record collection. ???????????? ?????????????????????????MY BLUE HEAVEN Victor Salon Group under the direction of Nathaniel Shilkret. Recorded on 12inch disc. Recorded in 1927. + Informações