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Irving Aaronson's Commanders: I Never See Maggie Alone, 1927

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Channel: 240252 · 2012 · Music

Irving Aaronson & His Commanders, Vocal Refrain Phil Saxe -- I Never See Maggie Alone, Fox-Trot (Harry Tilsley -- Everett Lynton) Victor 1927 (USA)

NOTE: Irving A. AARONSON (b. NYC in 1895 --d. Hollywood, CA in 1963) American jazz pianist and band leader. As 11 y.o. boy he  played accompaniment in silent movie theaters. In 1921, he co-wrote a hit song, Boo-Hoo-Hoo and the commercial success enabled him to organize his own dance band, The Versatile Sextette. Ever since 1925, he led the big orchestra: The Crusaders Dance Band, later changed to Irving Aaronson and his Commanders. Signed to the Victor label from 1926 to 1929, the band had an enormous success with Let's Misbehave in 1927 (The Aaronson's recording of that evergreen - with the outstanding vocal made by Phil Saxe, belongs to the hot-dance music trademarks of the Roaring Twenties in the USA). Irving Aaronson's Cruisaders appeared in Cole Porter's Broadway musical Paris, in 1928. In 1935, Aaronson starred in the Irving Aaronson Orchestra radio program on NBC. The band toured movie theatres and ballrooms across the U.S. before calling it quits in the mid-1930s, at which time Aaronson went to work as a musical director for MGM studios. He remained there until his death from a heart attack in 1963. Aaronson's band included at various times musicians such as Phil Saxe, Joe Gillespie and later band leaders in their own right Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa and Tony Pastor.

Irving Aaronson's Commanders: I Never See Maggie Alone, 1927

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