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Bert Lown & His Biltmore Hotel Orch. - I Love You, Believe Me I Love You, 1929

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Channel: 240252 · 2015 · Music

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Bert Lown & His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra, with Vocal Refrain – I Love You, Believe Me I Love You, Fox Trot from the Film “The Vagabond Lover” (Rubey Cowan – Phil Boutelje), Imperial 1929 (Recorded in USA; British pressing)

NOTE: Bert LOWN (1903-1962) American dance band leader and violinist, who started his career playing violin  in Fred Hamm’s orchestra. He also composed songs and in 1925 (with Hamm, Dave Bennett, and Chauncey Gray) he composed the well-known standard "Bye Bye Blues." Between 1929-33 he led one of the best American jazz-oriented dance bands. In 1929 Lown began his series of recordings and among his sidemen were trombonist Miff Mole, drummer Stan King and bass saxophonist Adrian Rollini. During 1929-31, Lown's band was employed regularly at the Biltmore Hotel in New York, frequently broadcasting on the radio. During this period Lown also composed "You're The One I Care For" and "Tired." In later years, Bert Lown withdrew from the music market and held executive positions in CBS, until suffering a heart attack in 1962.

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