Eddie Elkins Orch.- “Blue (and Broken Hearted)“ (1922)

“BLUE (and Broken Hearted)“ Words by Grant Clarke and Edgar Leslie Music by Lou Handman Performed by Eddie Elkins and His Orchestra October 27, 1922 Columbia A3751 Excerpts from his NYT obituary in October 11, 1984 Born in San Francisco (1897), Elkins was among the first to develop the use of elaborately arranged dance numbers for orchestras. He was also alert to new talent and under his baton musicians such as Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Red Nichols, Oscar Levant, Mannie Klein and others honed their techniques. From 1922 to 1925 Elkins and his orchestra, known variously as Eddie Elkins and his Orchestra and The Knickerbocker Orchestra, recorded for the Columbia Record Company. He and his band were featured in a number of films including ’’Night on the Ziegfeld Roof,’’ with Eddie Cantor in 1929, and in Ginger Rogers’s first pictures at Pathe. By the time he retired in 1932 to go into the stock market, he had appeared on stage with most of the big