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Title: Ein Freund ein guter Freund - Sid Kay's Fellows View count: 88 Rating: 5.0 (2 ratings) Description: Instrumental version of Ein Freund ein guter Freund - no singing unless you want to! The name of this orchestra relates to their founders, - Sigmund Petruschka ("Sid"; b: 1903), and Kurt Kaiser ("Kay"; 1906-1972), both of whom earlier had been members the Weintraubs Syncopators. The 'Sid Kay's Fellows' were first formed in 1926 as an amateur Dance Band consisting of students from Berlin's technical university. At the beginning, they were seen only occasionally, but soon the Sid Kay's Fellows became a Ball and Gala type orchestra, and found additonal engagements as 'Begleitkapelle' with theatre productions. After their first tours, in 1929 (Frankfurt/Main, Vienna, Budapest), the Sid Kay's Fellows were engaged (1930-32) as the House Orchestra in the 'Vaterland Haus' (Hauskapelle im Haus Vaterland), where they played for dancing and for musical revues, in the Palm Hall. In 1930, they also accompanied famed American Soprano Saxophonist Sidney Bechet (1897-1959), during his appearances. In 1933, after the nazis seized power, the 'Sid Kay's Fellows' existed only as a studio recording orchestra, and brought out some titles on the Lukraphon label, - a firm which had specialized in the aid to, and publication of Jewish artists in the years 1934/'35, under the direction of Petruschka. This orchestra probably consisted of members of the original 1933 orchestra that was created by the Jewish culture federation. In 1938, Petruschka emigrated to Palestine, where he assumed the name Shabtai Petrushka and played an important role in the music life of Palestine or Israel, among other things as musical conductor of Radio Israel. Tags: tankstelle, ein, freund, guter, sid, kay's, fellows, Author: jonjamg |
