1940 Radio Transcription - Charles Magnante Accordion Qt / Clyde Barrie Singers
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Dec 20, 2014 Sold Date
Dec 13, 2014 Start Date
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Up for auction is a 16" radio transcription of the Charles Magnante and his Accordion Quintet / The Clyde Barrie Singers  This dates from around 1940
The Charles Mangante side has some pretty hot accordion jazz...including an excellent rendition of Dodging a Divorcee.
The Clyde Barrie singers present some excellent spiritual music.  
Below is the track listing and more information on Charles Mangante

Charles Mangante Qt 1) Paree 2) Flying Fingers 3) Dodging A Divorcee 4) Swingiana
Clyde Barrie Singers
1) Water Boy 2) Roll Jordon Roll 3) You Better Be Ready 4) I Mus' Keep A-Moverin'


Here's some info on Charles Mangante from Wikipedia:

Charles Magnante started his professional career playing in Italian restaurants and on the Staten Island Ferry. However, he wanted to break free from the O Sole Mio image of the stereotypical Italian-American accordionist which his audiences expected to hear. In the 1940s, he was the leader of a successful trio with guitarist Tony Mottola and organist George Wright, and played regularly on NBC radio broadcasts. He worked also as a sought-after studio musician.[1] At the peak of his career, he played 30 live radio broadcasts and eight studio sessions each week. He performed also as a solo concert musician, and once performed a solo concert at the Civic Stadium of Buffalo, New York for an audience of 40,000.[2]

Magnante was one of the twelve founding members of the American Accordionists' Association (founded in 1938), and also served as this organization's president for three terms .[3]

Magnante wrote method books for accordion players and numerous arrangements of contemporary popular standards, schlagers and classical pieces. Many of his arrangements can still be found in the standard repertoire of accordionists throughout the world.[1] His most famous original composition is probably the novelty Accordiana. His arrangements and compositions stretch across a number of musical genres, including easy listening, jazz and boogie-woogie, and light classical pieces.[2]


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