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Tom Gerunovich & His Roof Garden Orch. - My Gal Sal, 1928

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Tom Gerunovich & his Roof Garden Orchestra – My Gal Sal, Brunswick 1928 (USA)

NOTE: Tom Gerunovich (Tom Gerun) American violinist and dance band leader, b. in San Francisco, CA in 1900. He attended the Polytechnic high school when, at the age of 16, his musical skills brought him to play in Portola Louvre orchestra in San Francisco. Soon he was playing in such well known places as Tait’s, the Palace Hotel and the Winter Garden, and at the age of 19 he organized his own orchestra. He played at the Sweet’s in Oakland and two times his band toured the Pacific coast, before he finally docked in the Roof Garden in San Francisco. He played in the prestigious dance venues throughout the United States, including the Congress Hotel in Chicago, the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, the New Jefferson Hotel in St. Louis, the Warman Hotel in Washington, also having several engagements in New York City. His band was a Bruswick recording orchestra, and his music was broadcast  on the N. B. C. chain. In 1931 he became co-owner of one of San Francisco’s most elegant  night clubs, the Bal Tabarin at Columbus Ave. and Chestnut Street - called the “Aristocrat of San Francisco restaurants”- where he stayed until the late 1950s. Many of his recordings – including “My Gal Sal” – are considered now as much ahead of his time and his band seems to be today one of the most underrated dance-jazz orchestras of the Jazz Age and early Swing years.

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