George Hall’s Arcadians - Just Another Day Wasted Away, Fox-Trot (Tobias-Turk) with Vocal Chorus (Wilson & McClelland), Perfect 1927 (USA)
NOTE: The singers went off the score a little in the start, yet after a while all goes well and the orchestra gives a lovely performance all the way long.
George HALL (b. 1893 – d. 1989) was an American bandleader active in the 1920s and 1930s. In the late 1920s George Hall’s band appeared in the Arcadia Ballroom in New York, billed as George Hall and His Arcadians. The band was successful, and they made recordings for Pathé Actuelle and several other labels including Cameo, Perfect, Romeo. In the early 1930s the band renamed George Hall and His Hotel Taft Orchestra moved to the Taft Hotel in New York. They played there for eight seasons. They also performed at other venues in USA including The Roosevelt in New Orleans and The Claridge in Memphis. In the 1930s they started recording for Bluebird Records with the vocalist Dolly Dawn, who became very popular, and they made hit records, the most successful being \"You're a Sweetheart\", released in 1938. In 1941 George Hall turned the band over to her, and she renamed the band Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol. However in 1942 the members were drafted during the Second World War and Dolly continued her career without the band. .
