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Roarin' 20s: Lou Gold's Orchestra - A Precious Little Thing Called Love, 1928

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Channel: 240252 · 2015 · Music

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Lou GOLD & His Orchestra, vocal chorus by: Tom Frawley (Irving Kaufman) – A Precious Little Thing Called Love, Fox-Trot from “A Shopworn Angel”, Harmony 1928 (USA)

NOTE: Lou GOLD (1890 – 1950) American bandleader and pianist, director of one of the most prolific recording bands during the hot-dance age in the US.  Born in Russia as Louis Goldwasser, he arrived with his parents to the United States when he was 3 years old. Having started his career as a popular music pianist in bars and cinemas, he then switched to bandleading his own orchestra, which played  the early jazz and hot dance arrangements and novelty songs, such as “Clap Yo 'Hands”, “Do Do Do” (1926) or  Skadatin-Dee (Just a Funny Sound and a Melody) (1928)  accompanied by many fabulous singers of the time (Scrappy Lambert, Irving Kaufman, Arthur Fields, Smith Ballew, Gladys Rice and Franklyn Baur).  Among the soloists in his orchestra was a well-known banjo player Ralph Dexter. Gold worked from 1925 to 1930 and had 21 recording sessions at Harmony, Imperial, Crown, Cameo, Diva, Perfect and Romeo. He also starred as Lou Gold & His Melody Men or Rex King and His Sovereigns. In 1930, the disbanded Lou Gold’s ensamble went transformed into the Don Carlos Latin Orchestra, which remained active for some time in American music market of the 1930s.  Today, Lou Gold’s recordings are very much valued by collectors as pure examples of the hotttest dance style of the Roaring 20s, albeit most of them had been cut in non-electrical versions (ignoring the mainstream, Harmony Records continued production of the accoustical recordings deep into the late 1920s).

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