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Roarin' 20s: Kaplan's Melodists - Hello Bluebird,1926

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Channel: 240252 · 2014 · Music

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Kaplan's Melodists -- Hello Bluebird, Edison 1925 (USA; acoustical recording)

NOTE: In the 1920s David Kaplan -- American pianist and polpular music arranger; not to be mistaken for Canadian bandleader, David Caplan or Dave Kaplan, the classical pianist from a much later era. In mid-1920s Dave Kaplan was a studio arranger and directed Edison house musicians on popular numbers with many performances credited to Kaplan's Melodists. By mid-1927 he began using the name Dave Kaplan & His Happiness Orchestra. He also worked as solo pianist, who accompanied most of  Edison recordings of the comedy duett Jones & Hare (The Happiness Boys). Kaplan also worked for publisher G. Schirmer Inc. and was noted as "one of the cleverest of New York's dance band arrangers" of the Roaring Twenties. 

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