Roaring 20s: Harry Bidgood's Broadcasters - Just Another Day Wasted Away, 1927
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Channel: 240252 · 2015 · Music
Harry Bidgood and His Broadcasters – Just Another Day Wasted Away, Fox Tot with Vocal Refrain, Broadcast 1927 (UK). NOTE: Harry Bidgood (b. in London 1898) was the in-house bandleader for the Broadcast/Broadcast Twelve labels which were manufactured by the British Vocalion company. Therefore, his bands in various times bear various names, including the Harry Bidgood’s Orchestra, Harry Bidgood’s Broadcasters, The Riverside Dance Orchestra, Don Porto and His Novelty Accordions, Rossini's Accordions, The Midnight Merrymakers, Primo-Scala & His Accordion Band, The New York Night Birds, to name only a few. Bidgood's career began when he became the pianist with the De Groot Orchestra then resident at London's Piccadilly Hotel. In time, he became the Musical Director for Vocalion Records, and in 1932, for Crystalate Records. Curiously, he is probably better remembered by his pseudonym of "Primo Scala" than by his own English birthname. (He contrived the name from Italy's boxing champion 'Primo Carnera' and a then famous Irish Sweepstakes winner, Emilio Scala.). Bidgood died in London in 1957.
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