Vaudeville Accordion Classics
The Complete Works of Guido Deiro
Henry Doktorski, accordion
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Vaudeville Accordion Classics
The Complete Works of Guido Deiro
Henry Doktorski, accordion
Disc A
1. Temperamental Rag
2. Pink Slippers Valse
3. Preparedness March
4. Il Pentimento Waltz
5. Royal Flying Corps March
6. Kismet Fox Trot
7. Orazione e Marcia Miltare
8. Western Stars March
9. Moonlight Waltz
10. Hand Grenade Throwers March
11. Deiro Rag
12. Muskateers March
13. Deirina Mazurka
14. I Don't Care Polka
15. Lido Tango
16. Queen of the Air March
17. Valse Caprice No. 1
18. Neapolitan Polka
19. My Florence Waltz
20. Egypto Fantasia
Disc B
1. Zampa Rag
2. Lola Fox Trot
3. Breitenbush March
4. Tango Tosino
5. Guido's Royal March
6. Light & Shadow Waltz
7. Variety Polka
8. Valse Pirouette
9. Marines March
10. Dolores Waltz
11. Los Bomberos March
12. Accordionette Waltz
13. Young Accordionist March
14. Little Accordion Player Waltz
15. Torpedo March
16. Beautiful Girl Waltz
17. The Peasant Quadrille
18. Radio Waltz
19. Dimples Polka
20. The Accordion Girl Waltz
21. Sharpshooters March
22. Veno (Duet) Fox Trot
23. Jewel Waltz (Duet)
24. King Boy (Duet) Fox Trot
25. Minneapolis March (Duet)
26. California Mazurka (Duet)
27. Sharpshooters March (Reprise)
Henry Doktorski, accordion
BRIDGE 9138A/B
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Guido Deiro, the Italian-American accordion virtuoso-- frequently called
"The Great Deiro"-- was of paramount importance in the popularization
of the accordion in the early 20th century. The first accordionist to
perform on the Vaudeville stage (1910), he was also the first accordionist to
make sound recordings (Edison Wax Cylinders, 1911). For many years Deiro
was a headline attraction at the great vaudeville houses throughout America and
abroad, and made more than 100 recordings for the Columbia record company.
On Bridge's 2-CD set, Henry Doktorski's sparkling performances of Deiro's music
quickly confirm the reason for Deiro's immense popularity.
In 1913,
Deiro met the young vaudeville performer, and later-to-be Hollywood starlette,
Mae West, while both were performing on a vaudeville show in Detroit.
The couple quickly fell in love and secretly married. Henry Doktorski's
liner notes detail Deiro and West's torrid love affair, and early photograph's
of Deiro, provided by Deiro's son, Count Guido Deiro Jr., add to the
significance of this release. Deiro's delightful compositions
are a window onto an era long past, much like the re-discovery of
Scott Joplin's music, twenty-five years ago.
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