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Under his own name, Selvin had accepted an exclusive contract to Brunswick Records when the company’s management decided to venture into radio with “The Brunswick Hour”, under the direction of Gus Haenschen.
Page 128 of the November 1927 issue states, “The Columbia Phonograph Co. announces that it has secured a three-year contract with Ben Selvin and His Orchestra, by which this celebrated dance orchestra and its leader will record exclusively for Columbia.
Feb 24, 2020 · Not wanting to limit himself to an exclusive recording contract, Selvin was able to work with multiple labels, which led him to record under a dizzying number of pseudonyms.
He led several studio ensembles for labels like Vocalion and Brunswick, Okeh. Paramount, Lyric. Emerson. Arto was also a member of many other recordings, including those under the aliases of the Broadway Syncopators to the Bar Harbor Society Orchestra.
Later also recorded for Vocalion, Brunswick, Okeh, Paramount and other labels. After retiring in 1934 from the music scene, working as a music supervisor for the A & R, Columbia Records (and in 1952 for RCA Victor), retiring from work in 1963.
Ben Selvin & His Orchestra. Profile: The extremely prolific Ben Selvin fronted thousands of recordings made for almost every label of the 1920s, holding Guinness' World Record as the most-recorded artist in history (his estimated output being somewhere between 13,000 and 20,000 songs). Music legends that played under his baton included The ...
Ben Selvin ‘s Novelty Orchestra had a massive hit in 1919 with their version of Dardanella. It is reported to have sold around a million copies. This page contains recordings that were released over the following decades under a number of different band names. It is a work in progress .
