Roarin' 20s: Bill Wirgis (Harry Reser) & His Orch. - Cheatin' On Me, 1925
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Channel: 240252 · 2013 · Music
Bill Wirgis & His Orchestra (Harry Reser's Band) -- Cheatin' On Me, Fox Trot (Yellen /Pollack), Perfect 1925 (USA) NOTE: Harry Reser -- American banjoist and bandleader. In 1920, Reser was at first employed as banjoist by various band leaders (e.g. Ben Selvin, Bennie Krueger, Sam Lanin, Nathan Glantz, Mike Markel, for whom he played Saxophone) but after two years he started his own band. He is considered as one of the top banjo-virtuoses in history. His band -- formally billed as Harry Reser's Orchestra -- thru all the 1920s was beating all world records in number of the nick-names they used for recordings in various record companies (e.g. Six Jumping Jacks, Six Polar Bears, The Cliquot Club Eskimos, Bill Wirgis and His Orchestra, Frank Auburn and His Orchestra, The Clevelanders, The Parlophone Players, Plantation Orchestra, Dixon Dance Orchestra, New York Happy Boys, Night Club Orchestra and dozens of others). His favourite - and really, outstandig vocalist -- until his tragic death in 1936, in a hotel fire -- was Tom Stacks.
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