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Ted Lewis & His Band - I Can't Get Over A Girl Like You, Fox Trot from "Lemaire's Affairs" (Broones & Ruskin) Columbia 1927 (USA)

NOTE: Ted LEWIS - American clarinetist & bandleader, born Theodore Edward Friedman in 1890 in Circleville, Ohio. In 1910 he formed with his elder brother a touring vaudeville duett Ted & Ed, yet when his brother gave up their family show-biz, Ted moved to New York. He got a job playing clarinet and saxophone at El Dorado Cafe, later he tyeamed up with a singer named Jack Lewis. (From then on, Ted Friedman went by his parther's last name as "Ted Lewis". In 1915, Ted Lewis formed a band that played at Coney Island and year later he joined Earl Fuller's band which had engagements at the fashionable clubs in Manhattan. It was in Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band which brought fame to young clarinetist, who made eccentric virtuose solo shows and used to steal the whole orchestral performance for himself. Therefore, in 1919 he left Fuller's band and formed his own, shoirtly becoming one of most popular dfance bands performing in Manhattan nightclubs. He also started recording for Columbia, and continued to be very successful throughout the rest of the decade and the 1930s. Lewis' bands featured many up-and-coming Jazz musicians like Muggsy Spanier, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, George Brunies, Jack Teagarden and Fats Waller. He was renowned for his famous saying "Is Everybody Happy?". Lewis wore a battered top hat on stage and was billed as the "High-hatted Tragedian of Jazz. Very often, he recorded as vocalist for his own band ant his vocal performances -- which, actually, were the mini melo-declamatory shows -- strongly influenced many refrain singers of his day. However, among a legikon of sincere fans of Ted Lewis band's excellent instrumental renditions, the bandleader's vocal presentations do not seem to have many enthusiasts today.