Roaring Twenties: Nat Shilkret Orch.- Georgia Pines, 1929

NAT SHILKRET (Nathaniel Schildkraut) was born to an Austrian-Jewish immigrant family in Queens, NY, in 1895. He showed remarkable musical ability as a child, first taking up the violin and the clarinet before age five. He studied piano with Charles Hambitzer, who also taught George Gershwin, and was a good enough musician so that he never had to rely on the civil engineering degree that he later earned in order to make a living -- rather, he played with the top orchestras in New York, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In 1924, he joined RCA Victor as director of the company's light music division, and founded the Victor Salon Orchestra, also sometimes called the Victor Orchestra, and he also led bands with names such as the Novelty Orchestra and Shilkret's Rhythm-Melodists. He became one of the top pop bandleaders of the late '20s and early '30s - his credits including hot dance numbers such as "Honey Bunch," "Sweet Thing," and "Zulu Wail," and pop numbers such as "Ain't She Sweet", "Me and My Shadow" - and he rivaled the popularity of Paul Whiteman. Indeed, their rivalry extended to the disputed credit of the first recording of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," which bore Whiteman's name (but, according to The Big Bands Database Plus, was actually the work of Shilkret). His success faltered in the early '30s, and he moved into radio in the mid-'30s and later out to Hollywood, where he joined the film industry as a composer. He passed away in 1982, well into his ...



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