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Bryn
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« Reply #15 on: 22:45:17, 08-01-2008 »
George, the Pye Golden Guinea of Petrushka with Rignold had the LPO. I think I still have it (in the loft, of course).
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« Reply #16 on: 23:05:43, 08-01-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 22:33:38, 08-01-2008

Hugo Rignold I remember as the conductor of the very first Petrushka I ever heard on an LP


Yes George, Rignold was a regular with the dance bands of Jack Hylton and Jay Wilbur, and the Savoy Orpheans, he's on hundreds of recordings from the 1930s, not as 'hot' as the other two I mentioned. Under his own name his band made several recordings in 1939.

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And Ben Frankel turned into Benjamin Frankel the composer? Well, dang me. The things you learn on this site.

I've mentioned that fact several times over the years whenever Frankel's name came up. He was in the Savoy Hotel's 'hot' band led by Fred Elizalde in the late 1920s, played in several studio bands and later wrote dance band arrangements for Henry Hall's BBC dance orchestra (but not playing violin) alongside Phil Cardew - uncle of Cornelius, another fact I regurgitate at every opportunity  Cheesy



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« Reply #17 on: 23:31:46, 08-01-2008 »
Quote from: Bryn on 22:45:17, 08-01-2008
George, the Pye Golden Guinea of Petrushka with Rignold had the LPO. I think I still have it (in the loft, of course).

Oh the wells of nostalgia: "Pye Golden Guinea" sounds right, Bryn, so I suppose it must have been the LPO. I wonder why I had associated it so strongly with the CBSO?

I do hope, by the way, that arrangements have been made to save your loft for the nation. Perhaps a Private Act of Parliament is called for to prevent it ever being towed overseas.   
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« Reply #18 on: 23:34:54, 08-01-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 23:31:46, 08-01-2008
Quote from: Bryn on 22:45:17, 08-01-2008
George, the Pye Golden Guinea of Petrushka with Rignold had the LPO. I think I still have it (in the loft, of course).

Oh the wells of nostalgia: "Pye Golden Guinea" sounds right, Bryn, so I suppose it must have been the LPO. I wonder why I had associated it so strongly with the CBSO?
   

Probably because Rignold was principal conductor of the CBSO during the 1960s.

I'm a Grappelly fan, by the way.
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« Reply #19 on: 23:57:36, 08-01-2008 »
Other names that might be familiar to members, other hot violin players from the British dance band era who went onto classical and/or light music, films and backing pop bands:

Reginald Leopold, Jean Pougnet and Eugene Pini (the latter two were European)

Another 'hot' British dance band fiddler worth a mention is Reginald Pursglove who was a mainstay in HMV's house bands in the 1930's*, as well playing in the recording studios with the top bands of Ambrose and Lew Stone. During WWII he recorded with 'Music While You Work' and the Light Music scene of the time and recorded with his own orchestra after WWII.


*At Amazon or at Dutton/Vocalion look for Ray Noble's New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, though we can't always be sure the violin solos heard are Pursglove, Pougnet or Siday.


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