DICK CONTINO Italian ACCORDION RADIO SHOW Horace Heidt Presents Album MA 501
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Dick Contino winning first prize during 1947 in a contest run by bandleader Horace Heidt. He put Contino under contract and featured him on his weekly radio show, the Horace Heidt Original Youth Opportunity Program, where the teenager became a star. Contino’s two most popular numbers were “Lady of Spain” and “Bumble Boogie.”
Dick Contino With Horace Heidt And His Musical Knights – Horace Heidt Presents Dick Contino
Label: Horace Heidt Presents – MA 501
Format:
4 x Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Album
A1 Contino Boogie
A2 Twilight Time
Written-By – Dunn*, Ram*, Nevin - Nevin*
A3 Lady Of Spain
Written-By – Reaves*, Evans*
A4 Sorrento
B1 Czardas
B2 Canadian Capers
Written-By – White*, Chandler*, Cohen*
B3 Sunrise Serenade
Written-By – Carle*, Lawrence*
B4 Chiribiribin
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Record Company – Magnolia Records Company
Credits
Accordion, Soloist – Dick Contino
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Dick Contino is remembered today for his performances in notoriously (and, one might add, enjoyably) bad movies such as Daddy-O (1959) and The Beat Generation (1960). But for about three years, from 1948 until 1951, Contino was a star attraction as a musician, earning 4,000 dollars a night. He had a recording contract with RCA Victor and an instrument named after him, could write his own ticket, and all of that as an accordionist. True, the accordion has been in eclipse for decades as a “serious” instrument, Robert Klein probably put it best on Child of the 50’s when he described the accordion as “groovy if you’re in a prisoner-of-war camp, someplace where you don’t have access to ‘real’ instruments” but at one time in the mid-20th century it was popular, and Contino was its most popular exponent in a period before electric guitars were played by anyone outside of the jazz field.
Born in Fresno, CA, in 1930, Contino took up the accordion as a boy and began entering talent competitions during the mid-’40s, ultimately winning first prize during 1947 in a contest run by bandleader Horace Heidt. He put Contino under contract and featured him on his weekly radio show, the Horace Heidt Original Youth Opportunity Program, where the teenager became a star. Contino’s two most popular numbers were “Lady of Spain” and “Bumble Boogie.”
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