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Phil Spitalny’s Music – Time On My Hands, Fox Trot (Adamson, Gordon – Youmans), Hit of the Week 1930 (USA)

NOTE: This beautiful song was composed by Vincent Youmans – author of such immortal hits, as “Tea For Two”, “Hallelujah”, “Carioca”, “Orchids In the Moonlight”, “Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere”. The song was introduced in 1930 by Marilyn Miller and Paul Gregory in the Broadway musical “Smiles” to be almost immediately included into repertoire of such celebrities as Connee Boswell, Lee Wiley, Russ Columbo or Billie Holiday. In later decades it lived to see several other notable recordings, e.g. Marlene Dietrich (in German, 1950) or Keith Jarrett (2005).

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Phil SPITALNY was born in 1890 in Tetijów, Poland (now in Ukraine) into a Russian-Polish-Jewish family, which had been musicians for many generations. In age of 9 he already was able to play clarinet and he performed with klezmer band as a pair musician. In later years he completed studies in Odessa Conservatory, in classes of piano and violin, but the clarinet remained his favorite. Around 1915, he came to the U.S. with his mother and one of his brothers, and settled in Cleveland, OH. There, he joined the group which performed in the dining room of the city's Hotel Statler. He also became a member of the original Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, formed in 1918 with Nikolai Sokoloff as director. Spitalny then moved to Boston, where he formed his own touring orchestra, which recorded for Victor from 1924 to 1926, and later made records for the Edison, Hit of the Week, and Perfect labels. Around 1933, Spitalny decided to organize a new orchestra to play dance music, and what made his orchestra really different was that it was staffed by all females, ranging in age from 17 to 30. They were billed as Phil Spitalny & His All-Girl Orchestra and played "jazzed" classics and light classical pieces. Because they were nice and easy to look at, they were signed to Universal Pictures and appeared in features and short subjects that exploited the orchestra's visual appeal. (One of the movies, in which Spitalny and his orchestra can be seen is the Abbott & Costello “Here Come the Coeds”, 1945). Spitalny continued to work in music into the '50s, and retired to Miami, where he died in 1970.