LEO REISMAN RHYTHMS - Victor Records (3) 78 Record Set - AUTOGRAPHED By Leo
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LEO REISMAN RHYTHMS - Victor Records (4) 78 Record Set - AUTOGRAPHED By Leo in 1946 at the Beverly Hills Country Club. Condition on all is playable with no visible scratches except for the one flip side mentioned
Love Walked In -Fox Trot (flip side My Lost Love damaged)
Poor Butterfly - Fox Trot
April in Paris - Fox Trot
Limehouse Blues -Fox Trot
Mimi a Fox Trot
Penthouse Serenade - Fox Trot
What Is This Thing Called Love? - Fox Trot
Reisman had the habit of featuring composers and Broadway performers as band vocalists, including Harold Arlen, Fred Astaire, Clifton Webb, and Arthur Schwartz. He also featured Lee Wiley in 1931-32 for her first 3 recordings. More often than not, his vocalists were Frank Luther, Dick Robertson and later Sally Singer and George Beuler. A notable recording from this era was "Happy Days Are Here Again" in November 1929, with vocals by Lou Levin.
Among his more popular hits were his #1 recordings of Cole Porter's "Night and Day" (1932) and Con Conrad's "The Continental" (1934), and Astaire's recording of Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek" (1935).
Reisman's was primarily a dance orchestra; he was not a fan of jazz music, but some of his early 1930s 78 RPM recordings were a bit "hot". (However, Reisman employed the legendary trumpet player Bubber Miley in 1930–31, who had been a featured member of Duke Ellington's orchestra.)
Eddy Duchin was a member of Leo Reisman's orchestra; it was Reisman who gave Duchin his big break.[2] The band leader and TV personality, Mitch Miller, also was a member of Reisman's orchestra.[3]
Leo Reisman died in New York City on December 18, 1961, at the age of 64.
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