1929 B. A. Rolfe LUCKY STRIKE Radio ORCH If I had You/ FIORETTA Edison DD 52513

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A series of great  JAZZ Records from early Ragtime to Beb-Bop on 78 rpm Victrola Records

By 1928 he was performing on radio and recording as "B.A. Rolfe and his Lucky Strike Orchestra" for Edison Records. Rolfe was an exclusive Edison artist from 1926 through October, 1929, when Edison suspended its recording operation.

Very late Electric Edison Diamond Disc

Condition:

EXCELLENT MINUS, light rubs, two light scratches on Fioretta, small rim chip NAP, plays very quiet

 A GREAT COPY

B.A. (Benjamin Albert) ROLFE (b. 1879 in Brasher Falls, New York – d. 1956 in Walpole, Massachusetts) – American movie producer and dance bandleader. At a young age he played the piccolo and cornet in his father's band, touring the U.S. east coast and Europe. After high school, he performed as clown in a traveling circus until joining the Majestic Theater Orchestra in Utica, New York where he led the brass instrument department. Around 1919 B.A. Rolfe turned his interest towards movies and in 1915 he founded B.A. Rolfe Photoplays, a film production company known for his work on The Master Mystery starring Harry Houdini (1918), Love Without Question (1920) and A Woman's Business (1920). Rolfe’s company produced more than 50 silent movies, however mounting financial difficulties resulted in Rolfe Photoplays Inc. going out of business in 1920. B.A. Rolfe turned towards the music market, where he became the vaudeville producer and a performing soloist. In 1924-25 he worked with the renowned bandleader Vincent Lopez and soon he established his own dance band. The style of the hot dance music they played gained high popularity in various dance venues in New York and B.A. Rolfe’s band was contracted at the Broadway night club called Palais d’Or, the term taken over by the band as their name. B.A. Rolfe was billed as Virtuoso Trumpet. In 1926 he signed with Edison Records as an exclusive Edison artist using the label name B.A. Rolfe and His Lucky Strike Orchestra until 1929, when Edison Records suspended it’s business. B.A. Rolfe’s band did not survive the Great Depression, which apart from many inconveniences for the existence of the Jazz Age dance orchestras, also had the fact that public taste had changed and swing music performed by big bands started to dominate the clubs. In the early 1930s B.A. Rolfe was busy making electrical transcriptions and the Vitaphone shorts, in 1935 he became the leader of The Goodrich Silvertown Orchestra, performing in many radio shows. With the onset of World War II, Rolfe organized an all-female orchestra to perform patriotic songs. B.A.Rolfe’s interpretations of popular dance hits of the roaring 20s, especially those signed as B.A. Rolfe and his Palace d’Or or B.A. Rolfe and his Lucky Strike Orchestras are today very much sought after by the 78rpms collectors and considered as belonging to the most iconic of the hot dance style before 1929.

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