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Roarin' 20s: Alfredo & His Band - I'm Thirsty For Kisses, Hungry For Love 1929

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Channel: 240252 · 2015 · Music

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Alfredo & His Band, with Vocal Trio - I’m Thirsty For Kisses, Hungry For Love, Fox Trot from the film comedy “Why Be Good?”, Edison Bell Radio (UK) 1929

NOTE: Why Be Good? is a 1929 American silent comedy film from First National Pictures starring Colleen Moore and Neil Hamilton. While the film has no audible dialogue, it is accompanied by a Vitaphone soundtrack with music and sound effects. The film had been considered a lost film for many decades, with only the soundtrack still in existence. In the late 1990s, it was discovered in an Italian archive. Restoration work of the film was completed in 2014. 
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The name of British bandleader Alfredo (his real name was Alfred Gill) appears as early as 1922, when he was touring the London dance halls, billed as “Alfredo, the Vagabond Violinist”. Later, he joined Jack Hylton’s renowned Kit-Cat-Orchestra, to leave Hylton in 1925 and form his own 9-piece dance band, which appears through the 1920s in the New Princes restaurant, Park Lane Hotel and in some other West End night clubs.  Between 1925-30, the band recorded prolifically for Edison Bell Radio and Winner. Vocals were usually contributed by Les Allen and Hal Swain, who were singing solo or in a duet.  In 1931, Alfredo exchanged his crew from the hot-dance players to mainly original Romanies and started recording as a Gypsy band (usually labeled as “Alfredo and His Orchestra”).

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