Irving Aaronson - Hi Ho the Merrio (1926)

Irving Aaronson was born in New York City in 1895. As a child, he learned piano at the David Mannes School for music and by the age of 11 his piano performances could be heard in silent movie theaters.
In the early 1920s he led the Versatile Sextette, later renamed the Crusaders Dance Band. Having success, the band signed with the Victor label company where the band name was then changed to Irving Aaronson and his Commanders. From 1926 to 1929, the band had it's greatest success creating a hit with the song "Let's Misbehave", and starred with Irene Bordoni in 1928 in the Cole Porter Broadway show, "Paris". Through the years, the band had a number of good musicians that became successful leaders in their own right, such Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa and Tony Pastor. In 1935, he was the lead performer in the radio program, "The Irving Aaronson Orchestra" on NBC.
In 1945, the MGM studios hired him as a musical supervisor, after his career as a bandleader. Some sources say Aaronson retired at 65, others have him working till his death. He died of a heart attack in 1963, at 68 years old, and was buried in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.

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• Irving Aaronson
• New York
• Cole Porter
• Prohibition
• Speakeasy
• Victor Records
• 1926

[DeathLee28]

lovely

What font is that?

[ASACurator]

@DeathLee28 - It is called "Andes". It should be a standard font in MS-Office from 2007 & up.

[DeathLee28]

@ASACurator ok thank you 

[MrXnews]

Great early Victor electric (that "V. E." above the label, just outside the recorded area).