The Flamingo Melodians (Phil Spitalny’s Orchestra) with Vocal Refrain - Should I? Fox-Trot from the Motion Picture “Lord Byron of Broadway” (Freed-Brown), Parlophone 1929 (USA)
NOTE: Phil SPITALNY (b. 1890 in a village near Odessa, Russia – d. 1970 Miami Beach, Fl) Russian - American musician, music critic, composer, and bandleader heard often on radio during the 1930s and 1940s. He rose to fame after 1934, when he led an all-female orchestra, a novelty at the time. A child prodigy on clarinet, Phil Spitalny studied music in Odessa Conservatory of Music, he toured Russia and arrived in US in 1905. He immediately got a job in several dance orchestras in Cleveland and Boston areas. In the 1920s he led his own dance band which was contracted at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York. After the Great Depression, Spitalny established a new all-girl band which was presented on air in his own radio program as The Hour Of Charm Orchestra and gained a nationwide popularity. The program lasted 10 years. Later, Phil Spitalny’s orchestra made appearances in the movies (“Abbott and Costello”) as well as tv on Ed Sullivan’s program Toast of the Town.
