Olympic Dance Orchestra - Who-oo? You-oo! (That's Who!)

  • 14 years ago
This was a pseudonym for a studio band of the Grey Gull record company. Their credits are particularly fuzzy and difficult to determine. The best known musician known to have played in it was Mike Mosiello. The only absolute certainty is Al Bernard (né Alfred A. Bernard, b.1888 – d. 1949), who was an American vaudeville singer, known as "The Boy From Dixie", who was most popular during the 1910s through early 1930s. Later, he recorded with Vernon Dalhart. In 1925, inspired by Dalhart, he began recording hillbilly songs. His 1930 version of "Hesitation Blues", recorded with the Goofus Five, is considered to predict the western swing style, with an intriguing combination of country and western and Chicago blues feels. Bernard continued to record into the 1940s, and died in 1949 in New York City. This sparkling 1927 recording, however, dates from his dance band period.

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