Sam Lanin’s Dance Ensemble – Hello Beautiful (1931)

Samuel C. Lanin was born in Russia, September 4, 1891. where he was the third of ten children. Soon afterward, his parents, Benjamin and Mary, moved the family to the United States and settled in Philadelphia. Clearly, Sam Lanin’s family was a musical one, which included a total of six future bandleaders. In addition to Sam, brothers Joe, Jimmy, Howard, Willie and Lester all led bands professionally. As a child, Sam studied violin, but later began playing clarinet. It was as a clarinet player that Sam was employed with Victor Herbert’s orchestra, for two years, beginning in 1911 or 1912. In 1917, after the US entered World War I, Lanin joined the Navy, where he was assigned leadership of one of its state-side bands. When the war ended, in 1918, Lanin returned to Philadelphia, where he started his own band. While there, he apparently met Louis Brecker, owner of The Roseland Ballroom. It was as a bandleader, at the Roseland (1919-1925), that Sam Lanin first gained prominence in the music industry. Just about a year after starting at the Roseland, Sam Lanin was at Columbia’s New York studio to make his first recordings. Over the next 11 years, Lanin returned to the recording studio more than 500 times, to make over 1800 recordings. The 1929 stock market crash hit Sam Lanin hard. In 1931 he lost his contract with Bristol-Meyers, his radio show and the name The Ipana Troubadors. By the middle of the 1930s, Sam was spending much of his time cutting transcription discs. He …
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