 | Bei Fräulein Liesbeth im Parterre (Egen,Marbot/Schwarz)- Bernard Etté u.s. Orchester, mit Refraingesang (Kurt Mühlhardt?), Kristall 1931
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Bernard Etté (born 1898, in Kassel -- died 1973 in Mühldorf) German bandleader and violinist. In age of 17 he played in a music-trio in one of Kassel wine cellars, to earn money for his music studies in Berlin. From 1923 he led the Boston Club Orchestra being one of first German dance bands to give regular on air concerts, ever since the invention of the wireless became widespread. Bernard Etté's hard-working style was famous - it was a common practice that his band performed in several places in one day, sometimes for 12 hours with only short breaks. Having established his own Tanz-Orchester, Etté employed the best musicians available in Berlin, such as Franz Grothe, Dajos Bela, Paul Godwin, Billy Bartholomew, Otto Stenzel. In the turn of 1920s/1930s he performed in „Casanova Ciasno" in Lutherstrasse. He won the "Golden Violin" Award and thru the 1930s until WWII, he played in Berlin's best hotels: "Excelsior", "Adlon", "Bristol". After the World War, however, he didn't succeed to retrieve his pre-war popularity. His elegant, smooth, hotel-club style of the 1930s ended, with the triumph of the boogie-woogie and jive big-band orchestration. |