Music/Dance
SOMERS
(Debroy, 1890-1952, Big Band Leader)
Postcard photo by Fielding, signed and inscribed
best wishes, showing him head and shoulders in smiling broadly, 5½ x 3½, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1930
£55
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Background
His period of celebrity stretched from the 1920s to the 1940s. He appeared in numerous films, including Second Choice, Stars on Parade and Aunt Sally, and founded the 11-piece dance band The Savoy Orpheans. On 15th June 1925, Somers conducted the first British performance of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue from the Savoy Hotel with the Orpheans, alongside the Savoy Havana Band and Gershwin himself on piano. The performance was broadcast live by the BBC.
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