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Ted Black & His Orchestra - Little Girl, 1931

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Channel: 240252 · 2018 · Music

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Ted Black & His Orchestra – Little Girl, Fox-Trot (Hyde-Henry) with Vocal Chorus, Panachord 1931 (UK product; recorded in USA)

NOTE: Ted BLACK (né Theodore Aboussleman; 1902–1969). Ted Black began using his stage name as early as 1931, when he was leading an orchestra on WOR radio, and 1933, when he was leading his orchestra at the Village Barn — in the basement at 52 West 8th Street in the West Village, Manhattan. Ted Black told a journalist in 1933 that Aboussleman meant "Father of Solomon" in his native country, Syria. Ted Black’s band is considered as one of the finest “sweet” dance music orchestras on the East Coast in the 1930s: his style sometimes compared with the “sweet era” in dance playing by Jan Garber ("Lombardo with a beat."). In 1940 Ted Black married a well-known swing band singer Gloria Whitney, their marriage lasted only 4 years. In 1944 Ted Black’s band disappears from the USA music market. 

Panachord was the label used by the British branch of the Warner-Brunswick Company in 1931. In the USA, the corresponding label was Melotone. The British company was taken over by Decca, and Panachord was discontinued in November 1939.

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