Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians - Dancing In The Dark (1931)

[SatchmoSings]

Waring hated Jews and Italians and his brother, Tom, who played trumpet and sang was a homosexual; this drove his brother crazy.

[chev6art]

@SatchmoSings Not true about Jews

[chev6art]

@SatchmoSings Waring had more than a few Jews in his orchestra! Plus he appeared several times on Jack Benny's and Fred Wynn's show; and he was good friend with George Burns--hardly the marks of a Jew-hater. What are you talking about??

[SatchmoSings]

@chev6art Okay, maybe I'll take down that posting and just leave up the remark about Italians and how that his brother Tom's homosexuality drove him crazy.

[chev6art]

@SatchmoSings Okay....Now about Tom Waring's homosexuality, that may be true. It's just that I never read about it or of Fred's rift with his brother over that. The Italians? That might have had something to do over his dealings with the Capones and the Costaglianos...

[SatchmoSings]

@chev6art Regarding how organized crime was during Prohibition, you might have a really good point there.

All this was related to me by a man in the music business who knew many of the old-timers from "The Jazz Age."

[bigcity233]

GREAT song - Schwartz and Dietz (lyricist) .... Nice arrangement.

[chev6art]

@bigcity233 More proof that Fred Waring was not a Jew hater. Schwartz & Dietz were about as Jewish as you could get in the music world.

[instamatic804]

An amazingly beautiful song; I adore it.

[tl9mile]

In the early days, Waring was famous for the fact that all the band members also sang, as you hear here. What a joy to listen to! Thanks.

[sbd650]

Good vocal harmony. Great music!

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Dejan

[Ingulphus]

The faster pace is one of the many reasons this is my favorite recording of this song - I also love Waring's "Love For Sale", with the same marvelous female harmonies.

[roybo1930]

@Ingulphus OMG ! Me to! and I have both on Victor 78s.

[LN1Campy]

good vocal harmony, but a bit to andante...

[TRULYBLESS2060]

Hollywood vixens 2009 MOVIE

[car1941los]

wonderfoul

[heinbanjo12]

Great music and I would love to hear some of his Banjo Orchestra. Hein