[78-L] Just a Passing Glantz

[Taylor Bowie]

It took me a long time to start paying any attention to a lot of these 
acoustic studio band records,  but I've been very impressed with a lot of 
the records issued by Nathan Glantz,  ditto Joe Samuels.  It is interesting 
that neither of them made very many electric records...I can't recall off 
hand if Samuels made any at all.  I guess both of them were somewhat older 
than the other studio band guys like Lanin,  Rich, Selvin,  etc.  so maybe 
by the mid- and late 20s they were just ready to start winding down.


Taylor B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] A Backward Glantz


> My goodness! I just looked in my ADBD and Glantz has 36 pages under his 
> own
> name. An important recording presence, one might say.(in his day)
>
> Al Simmons
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harold Aherne" <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>
> To: <78-L at 78online.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:07 AM
> Subject: [78-L] A Backward Glantz
>
>
> The entry for Nathan Glantz in the Big Band Database gives his birth year 
> as
> "ca. 1860", which I found surprising--that would make him 8 years older 
> than
> Charles Prince and 17 years older than Billy Murray. Obviously it isn't
> impossible that he was in his 60s when he made his dance band recordings,
> it's just a little unexpected.
>
> I did some research on my own, starting with the census records of 1900 
> and
> 1910. In the latter census I found whom I believe to be the gentlemen who
> made all those peppy sides between 1921 and 1931. He was a musician, age 
> 31,
> who immigrated in 1904. He was 41 in the 1920 census, which allows us to
> narrow the window of his birth between April 1878 and January 1879. His
> wife's name was Rebecca, and by 1930 they had 3 daughters and 2 sons, ages
> 10 to 23.
>
> On 19 April 1922 he appeared over WJZ on an broadcast called "Party 
> Night",
> organised by Okeh. Fred Hager played several dance tunes, followed by
> standard selections from Okeh's vocal roster. Glantz was on hand for a
> saxophone solo of "Step Along". He continued to make regular broadcasts
> throughout the 20s. I haven't heard an enormous number of his records, but
> those I've listened to have always been enjoyable and well-arranged.
>
> -Harold
>
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