Artie Malvin Rocks!

 

Artie Malvin part 1

1  - Juke Box Baby ( 18 top hits 175 )
2 -  All Shook Up ( Waldorf BU 2 )
3 -  Butterfly ( Bell  29 )
4 - The Darktown Strutter’s Ball ( Prom 1077 )
5  - Hound Dog ( 18 top hits 197 )
6 -  InThe Middle Of An Island ( Bell 49 )
7 - The Saints Rock And Roll  ( Waldorf 165 )
8 -  Yes Tonight Josephine ( 18 top hits TH 12-3 )
9  -  Green Door ( Waldorf )
10 -  Rock Around The Clock ( Waldorf 149/ Waldorf BU 2 )
11 -  Black Denim Trousers ( 18 top hits 161 b )
12 -  I Beg Of You ( Bell 70 )
13 - The House Of Blue Lights ( 18 top hits 155 b )
14 - Come Go With Me  ( 18 top hits TH 12-1a )
15 - The Garden Of Eden ( Bell 17 )
16 - I'm Stickin' With You   ( 18 top hits TH 12-1b )
17 - At My Front Door (see note)
18 - Short Fat Fanny  ( Waldorf CA-3-aa)
19 - Shake Rattle And Roll ( Waldorf BU 2, Waldorf 149)
20 - The Gandy Dancer's Ball ( Prom 1011 )
21 - Party Doll - ( Waldorf BU 2 )
22 - Blueberry Hill ( 18 Top Hits 203, Waldorf BU 2 )
23 - Don't Knock The Rock ( Waldorf Music Hall MHK 33-1211, 18 Top Hits – 207 )
24 - Fabulous ( Bell 42 )
25 -  Sh-Boom ( Waldorf 3304LP )

note: track 17 :  as The Brigadiers Quartet on Waldorf/Waldorf Music Hall and as Artie Malvin With The Brigadiers Quartet on Sparton (Canada)

Tracks recorded for 18 Top Hits, Waldorf, Waldorf Music Hall, Bell and Prom.

Of all the artists who recorded copies of hits for budget labels, Artie Malvin certainly had the most recognizable voice. An artist from the big band era, he was over thirty years old at the time of rock and roll.  His covers are sometimes  far enough from the real rock and roll, but  are neither bad and for a man who did what he can to rock AND not hiding behind a pseudonym like so many others, we can only feel respect ...

"He wasn't a name, but he was a voice that everyone knew," Janet Malvin, his daughter, said.

Arthur Malvin was born July 7, 1922, in New York City, the youngest of five children of Bernard and Sophie Malvin, Jewish immigrants who had left czarist Russia. His father ran a small hand laundry.

After securing his first singing gig at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, a teenage Malvin got through his first performance by hiding in his hand a 5-cent song sheet with lyrics to the popular songs of the day.

In 1942, he joined the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, a big band known for its innovative arrangements. Later that year, Malvin organized a vocal group called the Crew Chiefs that sang with Maj. Glenn Miller's Army Air Forces Orchestra.

After World War II, Malvin toured as a soloist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra that was led by Tex Beneke.

He also sang on children's records and recorded advertising jingles for Sominex, Blue Bonnet margarine, Tang drink mix and many others.

Malvin died in his sleep at his Century City home June 16, 2006 after a long illness,