[78-L] Teddy Peterson Orch on Polyphon

[Mike Harkin]

The site is not particularly user-friendly for non-Danes, in that it REQUIRES the diacritics in names and titles before it will return you any
information for the item.  I've messaged them about this, but nothing has
changed over the years....

Mike in Plovdiv 

--- On Mon, 5/4/09, Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com> wrote:

> From: Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Teddy Peterson Orch on Polyphon
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 2:56 AM
> Teddy Petersen was a Danish
> violinist/ bandleader, active from late 1910's 
> into the 1960's.
> At 18 he traveled to the USA and worked as a cinema
> musician for a few 
> years.
> Back in Denmark he studied at the Copenhagen Conservatory
> and worked as a 
> concertmaster in a fashionable restaurant at the Copenhagen
> Tivoli.
> In the early 1920's he formed his own orchestra and played
> the ballrooms 
> regularly for more than 20 years before becoming leader of
> the Danish Radio 
> light orchestra.
> He recorded from the late 1920's.
> 
> Here's a picture of the band:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teddy_Petersen_orchestra.jpg
> 
> The Danish national sound library only has the year of
> issue for the 
> "Bel-Ami" disc (1939).
> https://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/webpac3a/wgbroker.exe?2009050410563508331792+1+search+select++3+2
> 
> You can search for more Petersen discs on this Danish
> website, but their 
> search engine is terribly blunt; the only way I've been
> able to get an 
> overview of Petersen's recordings (which were numerous) is
> the following:
> 
> Go to
> https://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/webpac3a/wgbroker.exe?2009050410563508331792+-access+TOP.vegamusic_dan0
> 
> Write in:
> Pedersen Teddy
> (in the top box - under "Fritekst")
> 
> Mark:
> Plade
> (under "Vaelg én materialtype")
> 
> Scroll down to the bottom and mark:
> efter år
> (under "Sortér" - it's the last circle)
> 
> This, at least, gives you the sound library's 601 items
> with Petersen as 
> musician or composer, chronologically ordered. The first
> 128 posts are 
> without known dates, from then on you can follow his output
> of 78's year by 
> year from 1928.
> Kristjan
> 
> 
> > Can anyone give me recording date and/or other details
> for:
> >
> > Polyphon X.S.  50741
> >
> > Teddy Petersen og hans Orkester.  BEL-AMI b/w
> BOOMPS-A-DAISY.
> >
> > I've tracked the Side A tune to a 1939 German movie so
> I'm guessing that's
> > the year of the record.
> >
> > I have one other record of this group as well...is
> there any discography 
> > of
> > it?  The sound on the A side compares favorably
> with any smooth English or
> > American dance orchestra,  and I'd like to know
> if Petersen's other 
> > records
> > are of the same style and what years he recorded.
> >
> >
> > Thanks from
> >
> > Taylor
> >
> >
> >
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