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'COMM::eng'                                         ('Debuted 1926 and peaked at #3\r\n'
 "Ben Selvin's Knickerbockers\r\n"
 'Originally a violinist, Ben Selvin probably made more records than any other '
 'bandleader of the 78 rpm era, his career in the record industry spanning '
 'decades. He may be best known among record collectors not for specific '
 'recordings but for quantity. Articles on page 145 of the January 1924 issue '
 'of Talking Machine World and page 86 of the January 1924 issue of Metronome '
 "celebrated Selvin's 1,000th record--this was early in Selvin's career. The "
 'articles, evidently based on the same press release prepared by Selvin '
 'himself, state that the musician was "twenty-five years of age." Page 67 of '
 'the February 1925 issue of Metronome states that Selvin "recently made his '
 '1200th phonograph record." He remained important in the record industry for '
 'decades, even becoming a vice president of Columbia during the heyday of '
 'Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Doris Day and Buddy Clark. Later he was an A & R '
 'man for RCA, overseeing the popular RCA Camden series of reissued material '
 'until forced to retire at age 65. \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'He was born around 1898 to Russian immigrants. His father, Max, was a '
 'tailor. Page 34d of the September 1927 issue of Talking Machine World gives '
 'this background information: "Ben Selvin, a native of New York, started '
 'fiddling at the age of seven. He made his first public appearance at the '
 'Star Casino at the age of nine. Acclaimed a prodigy, and presented with a '
 'gold medal in recognition of his genius, it was planned to send him to Paris '
 'for further study. Reverses prevented, but Ben was determined to succeed, so '
 'he kept on working in and around New York. In 1913 Mr. Selvin made his first '
 "appearance on Broadway. From there he went to Rector's, then to "
 "Reisenweber's and Healy's. When nineteen years old, Ben Selvin organized his "
 "own orchestra and played at the Moulin Rouge for Broadway's record "
 'orchestral run--a run of seven years." Page 86 of the January 1924 issue of '
 'Metronome states, "In 1922 he was assigned to the newly created Broadway, '
 'which, with an augmented orchestra, he took by storm. Soon his popular '
 "aggregation was transferred to the 'Pavilion Royal,' where more admirers "
 'were won." \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 "Victor's November 1919 supplement credits Benjamin B. Selvin for arranging "
 "the two numbers on Victor 18614 performed by Selvin's Novelty Orchestra, "
 '"Mandy" and "Novelty One-Step." Soon afterwards came his best-selling '
 'record, "Dardanella," with lyrics by Fred Fisher, music by Johnny Black and '
 "Felix Bernard. This was cut by Selvin's Novelty Orchestra for Victor 18633 "
 'on November 20, 1919, and issued in February 1920. \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 "The June 1921 issue of Talking Machine World announced that Selvin's Novelty "
 'Orchestra, engaged at the time at the Moulin Rouge in New York City, "signed '
 'up exclusively for the making of Vocalion records." (Curiously, Brunswick '
 "and other companies continued to issue discs of Selvin's Orchestra.) The "
 'September 1922 issue of the trade journal announced that Selvin would '
 'continue to be exclusive to the Vocalion label, and page 143 of the '
 'September 1923 issue of Talking Machine World announced that Selvin again '
 'signed to be an exclusive Vocalion artist, adding, "Although only twenty- '
 'eight years old he not only directs the Selvin Orchestra at the Moulin '
 'Rouge, New York, but he directs and manages the Bar Harbor Society Orchestra '
 'and the Broadway Syncopators, both exclusively Vocalion combinations....It '
 'is said, besides furnishing six records or twelve selections a month for the '
 'Vocalion list, his orchestra also accompanies most of the Vocalion artists '
 'in their recordings of popular songs....[H]e keeps three arrangers busy '
 'preparing effective and novel orchestrations." \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'He worked often in radio by 1924. Page 57 of the June 1924 issue of Dominant '
 'Orchestra Monthly states, "Few radio orchestras have so completely '
 "captivated 'listeners-in' as has Ben Selvin's Moulin Rouge Orchestra, "
 'Vocalion record artists who broadcast every Monday night over Station WJZ." '
 'Page 54 of the November 1924 issue of Talking Machine World describes WJZ '
 'programs sponsored by the Aeolian Company in New York City: "The program on '
 "Monday was opened by several irresistible dance numbers by Ben Selvin's "
 'Woodmansten Inn Orchestra, Vocalion record artists..." \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'His status as an exclusive Vocalion artist ended on September 1, 1924. He '
 'began recording for Columbia, Paramount and the Plaza Music Company, which '
 'issued records on Banner and related labels. In 1926 and 1927 he also worked '
 'for Brunswick--he had last recorded for the company in 1922 before signing '
 'as an exclusive Vocalion artist. He continued to record for Vocalion, which '
 'became a Brunswick subsidiary in January 1925. \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'Page 70 of the February 1925 issue of Metronome announced that "The Famous '
 'Phonograph Orchestras Bureau has been organized with headquarters in the '
 'Publicity Building, 1576 Broadway, New York City. Associated in this '
 'enterprise are Charles Dornberger, Ben Selvin and George D. Lottman. '
 'Bookings are made for several of the orchestras that record for the '
 'phonograph companies, and a very satisfactory business is reported." \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'Now with even closer business ties to phonograph companies, he vigorously '
 'attacked the new medium of radio, doing it in a way to make phonograph '
 'recordings seem a perfect product. Page 67 of the February 1925 issue of '
 'Metronome quotes a press release issued by Selvin: "Radio in its present '
 'stage is a menace to the artist who broadcasts; its publicity value dwindles '
 'into insignificance when compared to the harm that it does. I have decided '
 'to cancel all future broadcasting dates because I find that radio goes a '
 "long way toward impairing one's reputation. The tonal balance perfected in "
 'the phonograph recording studios is utterly lacking in radio reproduction; '
 'some instrument always stands out as a rule over the air, to the complete '
 'exclusion of all the rest. I have investigated this condition intensively, '
 'but no amount of position- moving or special orchestrating seems to remedy '
 'it. The banjo, particularly, will often muffle the dulcet and sweet tones of '
 'the saxophone, and other instruments prove similarly offensive. Then, there '
 'is a harmful tendency on the part of many musicians, particularly amateurs, '
 "to 'hog' the air in their over-anxiety. This, combined with the very poor "
 'balance achieved by the broadcasting orchestra, makes radio music a really '
 'hideous thing. Until these evils are remedied, I, for one, am going to let '
 'the radio alone." \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'He soon performed on radio again, presumably lured to the medium by a '
 'sufficiently lucrative contract. Page 60 of the March 1925 issue of '
 'Metronome states, "Ben Selvin has added three men to his Woodmansten [Inn] '
 'orchestra and will have nine musicians on the job for the coming season. '
 'Selvin is now broadcasting through station WFBH and is doing his own '
 'announcing." That all of radio\'s "evils" listed a month earlier by Selvin '
 'had been remedied so quickly is unlikely. \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'By the end of 1927 he was closely associated with Columbia. Page 34d of the '
 'September 1927 issue of Talking Machine World states, "Ben Selvin, besides '
 'being known as one of the greatest of American orchestral leaders, has '
 'accepted the post of Program Director of the Columbia Phonograph Hour, '
 'sponsored by the Columbia Phonograph Co., to be presented every Wednesday '
 'evening over the entire chain of the Columbia Broadcasting System, starting '
 'September 28." The Columbia Broadcasting System, a broadcasting chain '
 'controlled by the Columbia Phonograph Company, had been formed only months '
 'earlier. \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'Page 128 of the November 1927 issue states, "The Columbia Phonograph Co. '
 'announces that it has secured a three-year contract with Ben Selvin and His '
 'Orchestra, by which this celebrated dance orchestra and its leader will '
 'record exclusively for Columbia. The first release under the new contract is '
 "a coupling of 'Playground in the Sky' and 'Wherever You Are,' both...from "
 "the new musical comedy success, 'Sidewalks of New York.' Ben Selvin has the "
 "distinction of recording the famous phonograph record of 'Dardanella' back "
 'in 1919, the record which sold more copies than any other up to the recent '
 "phenomenal success of Columbia's 'Two Black Crows' records. Another early "
 "great hit of Mr. Selvin's was 'Three O'Clock in the Morning.' Ben Selvin has "
 'recorded more than 3,000 selections for various phonograph companies in the '
 'past." \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'This article\'s claim that "Dardanella" was the industry\'s best-seller '
 'prior to 1927 is probably not true though the disc was genuinely '
 'popular. \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'A few records among his thousands are "I\'m Forever Blowing Bubbles" (Victor '
 '18603, 1919), "Yes! We Have No Bananas" (vocal by Irving Kaufman, Vocalion '
 '14590, 1923), "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight" (Columbia 359-D, 1925), '
 '"Manhattan" (Columbia 422, 1925), "Blue Skies" (Columbia 860-D, 1927), '
 '"Happy Days Are Here Again" (Columbia 2116-D, 1930), and "When It\'s '
 'Springtime in the Rockies" (Columbia 2206-D, 1930). In the early 1930s he '
 'led orchestras on radio. For example, during the winter of 1933-34 he '
 "directed The Taystee Breadwinners over New York City's WOR on Monday, "
 'Wednesday and Friday at 8:15 p.m. on a show sponsored by the Taystee Bread '
 'Company and starring Billy Jones and Ernest Hare, who were called "The '
 'Taystee Loafers." \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 "Joseph Lanza reports on page 46 in Elevator Music (St. Martin's Press, "
 '1994), "Selvin was Muzak\'s chief programmer in its early years; he '
 'supervised its first New York City transmission in 1936 and had helped the '
 'company devise its first standardized programming." \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'George T. Simon writes in The Big Bands (New York: Schirmer Books, 1981) '
 "about Selvin's connection with James Caesar Petrillo, president of the "
 'American Federation of Musicians, who was worried about musicians being put '
 'out of work by radio broadcasts as well as jukeboxes reproducing music from '
 'records: "...[P]erturbed by the possible adverse effects of recording on his '
 'membership, he hired Ben Selvin, a highly respected recording executive and '
 'orchestra leader, to conduct a thorough study of the entire recording field '
 "as it affected musicians. Selvin's report was exhaustive. Presented at the "
 "annual convention of the musicians' union, it received a standing ovation "
 'from the delegates..." \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'Selvin argued against a ban on recording, pointing to other ways to address '
 'the problem of large numbers of musicians being unemployed, but Petrillo '
 'ordered that a ban go into effect on August 1, 1942. The ban was arguably a '
 'disaster for working musicians--for example, it contributed to the decline '
 'of big bands or the "swing" era--but in the end the major record companies '
 'did agree to pay the union a royalty for released records. \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'Around 1947 Selvin worked for Majestic Records as chief of artists and '
 'repertory. Late in life he worked for RCA, overseeing the popular RCA Camden '
 'reissue series. In the early 1960s, he was forced to retire from RCA at age '
 '65. He became a consultant for 3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing), a '
 'company that transferred recordings to audiotape. He recommended records to '
 'be transferred  to the new tape medium. In the mid-1970s he was reunited '
 'with former Brunswick recording director Walter Haenschen ("Carl Fenton") '
 'for a taped interview at Lincoln Center. The unpublished interview is part '
 'of the Haenschen collection at Ithaca College in upstate New York. \r\n'
 '\r\n'
 'He married three times. His first wife, Alice, bore him a son, Robert, in '
 '1924 (he died in 1999). In 1944 he married Gloria, and they had two '
 "children, Rick (1944) and Rene (1950). Following Gloria's death in the "
 '1970s, he married a woman named Dorothy. He died July 15, 1980, while '
 'recuperating from a heart attack. \r\n')
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