Eddy Duchin & His Orchestra - Roller Skating Fad NYC 1933: 'Shadow Waltz' Vintage 🎭

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🎹 Band leader Eddie Duchin and his orchestra with singer Sylvia Froos, New York City, 1933. The Shadow Waltz is the 2nd song, featured in the popular musical 'Gold Diggers of 1933.'
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Wiki, Ed. - Edwin Frank Duchin (April 1, 1909 – Feb. 9, 1951), known as Eddy Duchin or Eddie Duchin, was an American popular music pianist and bandleader during the 1930s and 1940s. Duchin was born on April 1, 1909, in Cambridge, Mass. to Bessarabian Jewish immigrants. He attended the Mass. College of Pharmacy and was originally a pharmacist before turning full-time to music and beginning his career with Leo Reisman's orchestra at the Central Park Casino in NY, an elegant nightclub where he became popular in his own right.

Duchin took over as the orchestra's leader and became widely popular thanks to regular radio broadcasts that boosted his record sales. He was one of the earliest pianists to lead a commercially successful large band. Musical style. Playing what later came to be called "sweet" music rather than jazz, Duchin opened a new gate for similarly styled, piano-playing sweet bandleaders. Duchin had no formal music training—which was said to frustrate his musicians at times—but he developed a style rooted in classical music that some saw as the forerunner of Liberace's ornate approach...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Duchin

Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler in the 'The Shadow Waltz' from the movie, 'The Gold Diggers 1933.'

- 1933 A YEAR IN HISTORY.
As the Great Depression continued worldwide, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. Nazis declared a national boycott of Jewish-owned businesses and opened their first concentration camp, Dachau. In the U.S., after President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt narrowly escaped assassination, he inaugurated his New Deal programs, ended Prohibition and began speaking directly to Americans with radio fireside chats. A “monster” appeared in Scotland’s Loch Ness, King Kong loomed large on movie screens and the first drive-in theater opened in New Jersey...
https://www.history.com/a-year-in-history/1933