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Eddy Duchin ‎– The Eddie Duchin Story - Original Eddy Duchin Recordings 1956 (Rare Vinyl)

Eddy Duchin ‎– The Eddie Duchin Story - Original Eddy Duchin Recordings 1956 (Rare Vinyl)

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Eddy Duchin ‎– The Eddie Duchin Story - Original Eddy Duchin Recordings 1956

stock photo only - album and cover -is 9-10 / bin # *40

2nd copy - Mint *231

Edwin Frank "Eddy" Duchin (April 1, 1909 – February 9, 1951) was a popular American pianist and bandleader of the 1930s and 1940s, famous for his engaging onstage personality, his elegant piano style, and his fight against leukemia.

Early career

Edwin Frank Duchin was born on April 1, 1909 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Bessarabian Jewish immigrants, Tillie (née Baron) (1885–March 21, 1962) and Frank Duchin (June 2, 1885–?).[2] He was originally a pharmacist before turning full-time to music and beginning his new career with Leo Reisman's orchestra at the Central Park Casino in New York, an elegant nightclub where he became hugely popular in his own right and eventually became the Reisman orchestra's leader by 1932. He became widely popular thanks to regular radio broadcasts that boosted his record sales, and he was one of the earliest pianists to lead a commercially successful large band.

Musical style

Playing what later came to be called "sweet" music rather than jazz, Duchin's success opened a new gate for similarly styled, piano-playing sweet bandleaders such as Henry King, Joe Reichman, Nat Brandwynne, Dick Gasparre, Little Jack Little, and particularly Carmen Cavallaro (who acknowledged Duchin's influence) to compete with the large jazz bands for radio time and record sales.

Duchin had no formal music training—which was said to frustrate his musicians at times—but he developed a style rooted in classical music that some saw as the forerunner of Liberace's ornate, gaudy approach. Still, there were understatements in Duchin's music. By no means was Duchin a perfect pianist, but he was easy to listen to without being rote or entirely predictable. He was a pleasing stage presence whose favourite technique was to play his piano cross-handed, using only one finger on the lower hand, and he was respectful to his audiences and to his classical influences.

Duchin would often use beautiful, soft-voiced singers such as Durelle Alexander and Lew Sherwood to accommodate his sweet and romantic songs, giving them extra appeal and making them more interesting.

Label:Columbia ‎– CL 790
Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono 
Country:Canada
Released:1956

Tracklist

A1 Chopin's E-Flat Nocturne
A2 Time On My Hands
A3 What Is This Thing Called Love?
A4 Shine On Harvest Moon
A5 Smiles
A6 You're My Everything
A7 April Showers
A8 Brazil
B1 Three O'Clock In The Morning
B2 The Man I Love
B3 Just One Of Those Things
B4 Blue Room
B5 Am I Blue?
B6 Stardust
B7 Till We Meet Again
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