1931: Andy Sannella & His All Star Orch. - I'm Mad About You, 1931

Andy Sannella & His All Star Orchestra - I’m Mad About You, Fox-Trot (Abner Silver), Fox-Trot with Vocal refrain by Chick Bullock, Victor 1931 (USA)

NOTE: Andy SANNELLA (born 1900 in Brooklyn NY - died 1962 in New York) - American multi-instrumentalist and bandleader of Italian origin. He played the violin, piano, organ, clarinet, alto saxophone, guitar (preferably steel), banjo and vibraphone. He also sometimes appeared as a singer. He was a licensed radio amateur and an experienced pilot who flew to concerts in his own private plane.

Sannella started learning music (guitar and violin) at the age of 10. He later served in the Navy during the Great War, and after that he settled in Panama to play in various dance bands. After returning to New York in the 1920s, he joined the orchestras of Dan Gregory and Mike Markel, and in the mid-1920s, he joined Ray Miller's band, where he played clarinet and alto saxophone with later famous musicians Frank Trumbauer and Miff Mole. During this time, he also occasionally played with other popular dance bands such as Nat Shilkret, Leonard Joy, Ben Selvin and Sam Lanin. He was highly sought after by conductors, but he had no desire to start his own band. Between 1926 and 1930, Andy Sannella worked with trumpeter Mike Mosiello, with whom he eventually formed a studio band for the Grey Gull Company, where, in addition to performing popular songs of the time, they were allowed to record several instrumental numbers of their own, often appearing as B-sides on the company's "pop" records. On these sides, Sannella plays alto saxophone, clarinet and steel guitar, often switching between all of these instruments in the same number, and sometimes on accordion, violin or ukulele among the 12 instruments he played. For Grey Gull he recorded under pseudonyms, but for other labels (Harmony, Columbia, Okeh, Victor, Hit of the Week) Sannella could record under his own name (ranging from trios to full dance orchestras). He also recorded for Brunswick as a steel guitar soloist. Selmer, a famous manufacturer of musical instruments, made Sannella the face of its advertisements. From 1932, Sannella appeared on records less and less often. Instead, he appeared in radio, where he directed four shows for NBC. He was also on Broadway and TV shows since the 1940s. Sannella died after a sudden stroke on a New York street in 1962.
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