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Nathan Glantz & His Orchestra – June Night (Friend – Baer), Fox-Trot, Edison 1924 (USA)

NOTE: A couple of weeks ago I presented in this channel the German version of this American tune, performed by Eric Borchard’s Jazzband. Now, here it is again, played by the American dance band led by the C-melody saxophone player, Nathan Glantz. In the Roaring Twenties, Glantz had one of the most prominent orchestras in New York City. However, his orchestra came from an era of American musical history when bandleaders waxed as many records as possible, sometimes under their real names, sometimes under someone else's name or under the name of someone who didn't even exist. Therefore, Nathan Glantz’s band appears on record labels under various pseudonyms e.g. The Hollywood Dance Orchestra, the Continental Dance Orchestra, the Roy Collins Dance Orchestra – the late two pseudonyms, by the way, were utilized not only by Glantz but by the Joseph Samuels Orchestra. The resulting confusion means it is next to impossible to track the activities of Nathan Glantz’s band and many other American dance orchestras from the 1910s and '20s. Tallying up all the different names, it is estimated that Glantz’s band performed more than 100 recording sessions, until 1927.