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Roaring Twenties: Art Landry & His Orch. - For My Sweetheart, 1926

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Art Landry & His Orchestra – For My Sweetheart, Fox Trot (Kahn – Donaldson) with Vocal refrain by trio from Orchestra, Victor 1926 (USA)

NOTE: Art  LANDRY (b. 1896 in Montreal, Canada – d. 1990 in Sarasota, Florida) - Canadian/ American clarinetist, saxophonist and violinist who also led during the Roaring Twenties his own small dance band, which is comparable with the best offerings from bandleaders Ben Selvin, Sam Lanin, Isham Jones or Jean Goldkette.  Art Landry was classically trained as violinist yet during his military service in the US he met saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft , who took him on a ride to LA, where they both began performing with the best West Coast dance bands, including Art Hickman and Paul Whiteman. However, in 1922 Landry formed his own dance orchestra, which spent its first year on the road. In 1923, they had their first recording sessions for Gennett. Landry’s 8-piece unit  was labeled as the Call of the North Orchestra, Syncopatin' Six, Commodore Band, or the Regent Orchestra. The members included sax man Don Murray, who later worked with Bix Beiderbeck and hot jazz drummer Stan King, then mostly active as a member of the California Ramblers. During that perion, Art landry befriended New Orleans cornetist and bandleader Joe "King" Oliver who  clearly influenced Landry and resulted in his best jazz recordings. In 1924, Art Landry's Orchestra played  in San Francisco, and made its first Victor recordings. Over the next three years, at least 28 sides were waxed for this label under his name, including Landry's biggest recorded hits "Dreamy Melody", "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue," and "Sleepy Time Gal." When the Great Depression wiped off the most of the bands of hot-dance era, Art Landry opened a successful booking agency with offices at 43rd and Broadway in Times Square. Subsequently, he led radio broadcast bands and toured with theater pit orchestras through the 1930s. In later decades, he was employed in the tv industry for which he composed themes used in educational videos for children, and taught music in New York public school system. Late in life, he turned his home in Florida into a successful music store.

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