RSA Staff’s Favorite Eddy Duchin Songs!

Here at the Recorded Sound Archives, we listen to A LOT of music, while digitizing and scanning recordings for research.

Here at the Recorded Sound Archives, we listen to A LOT of music, while digitizing and scanning recordings for research.

Did you know it’s National Hot Dog month? We had almost forgotten until a co-worker brought it up in conversation last week.
Eddy Duchin never pretended to be a great musician.
One of the members of Eddy Duchin’s orchestra once said “…Many people didn’t listen to him as much as they looked at him, he was the only musician I’ve ever known who could play a thirty-two-bar solo with thirty-two mistakes and get an ovation afterwards…”
During my early childhood (early 50’s) in N.E. Philadelphia, I listened to Gladys Gewirtz singing all the songs from the Jewish holidays and holy days on our big RCA-Victor S-1000.

In celebration of Black History Month, the Recorded Sound Archives has curated a collection of Black Blues Artists some of which are currently on display on the 1st floor of the FAU Wimberly Library for the month of February.
Click to discover 14 Blues Artists such as the voices of Huddie Leadbelly, Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith and more in this collection!
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