Name Bert Lown | Role Composer | |
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Died November 2, 1962, Portland, Oregon, United States Albums Bert Lown, Top 80 Classics - The Very Best of Bert Lown People also search for Fred Hamm, Chauncey Gray, David Bennett | ||
Bert lown s orch you call it madness but i call it love 1932
Bert Lown (June 6, 1903-November 2 (or 20), 1962) was a violinist and orchestra leader.
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- Bert lown s orch you call it madness but i call it love 1932
- Bert lown s hotel biltmore orch you re the one i care for 1930
- Recording History
- References
He was born in White Plains, New York. He began as a sideman playing the violin in Fred Hamm's band, and in the 1920s and 1930s he led a series of jazz-oriented dance bands (the most famous being the Biltmore Hotel Orchestra), making a large number of recordings in that period for Victor Records. In 1925 (or 1930), (with Hamm, Dave Bennett, and Chauncey Gray) he composed the well-known standard "Bye Bye Blues." He also wrote some other songs, including "You're The One I Care For" and "Tired." By the mid-1930s he quit leading the orchestras, becoming a booking agent and manager; eventually he left the music industry and moved on to executive positions in the television industry. He died of a heart attack in 1962 in Portland, Oregon.