Joe Loss

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
All time party hits
  UK 20th 10/30/1971 (10 weeks)
Singles
Wheels Cha Cha
  UK 21st 07/05/1961 (21 weeks)
Sucu Sucu
  UK 48 25.10.1961 (1 week)
The Maigret Theme
  UK 20th 04/04/1962 (10 weeks)
Must be Madison
  UK 20th 11/07/1962 (13 weeks)
March of the Mods
  UK 31 11/11/1964 (7 weeks)

Joe Loss OBE (born June 22, 1909 in Spitalfields , London, † June 6, 1990 ; full name Joshua Alexander Loss ) was a British musician and big band leader.

biography

Joe Loss was the son of Russian immigrants. He proved to be a gifted violinist, learned the instrument at the Hackney Academy of Music. He has received scholarships from Trinity College of Music and the London School of Music. He founded his first dance band as a teenager and took his first professional steps as a musician as a silent film accompanist in the cinema.

Loss played in various dance orchestras and from 1930 had his first own seven-piece group, which played in London's Astoria Ballroom . The first radio appearance followed three years later. As a result, the Joe Loss Orchestra became one of the most popular British dance orchestras far beyond the country's borders. Not only did it survive World War II without a break-in and significant changes in line-up, Loss also adapted to the change in music taste in the rock and roll and beat era and was successful in the charts well into the 1960s. The most famous singers were Chick Henderson , Vera Lynn , Ross McManus and, from 1972, Todd Miller. The orchestra often played in front of the English royal family, including at two royal weddings, several times on world tours with the Queen Elizabeth 2 and as the first western dance orchestra in the People's Republic of China.

Joe Loss was inducted into the Order of the British Empire in 1978 . He led his orchestra until 1989, when he handed over the leadership to Todd Miller due to age and illness. In 1990 he died at the age of 80. Miller, whom Loss brought on as a singer in 1972, performed in 2010 for the 80th anniversary of the Joe Loss Orchestra.

Discography

  • The scene changes
  • I know now
  • Please Be Kind
  • Little Sir Echo (1939)
  • Are you having any fun? (1939)
  • Wish me luck (as you wave me goodbye) (1939)
  • My prayer (1940)
  • South of the Border (Down Mexico Way) (1940)
  • Beer Barrel Polka (1940)
  • Blue Orchids (1940)
  • Till the Lights of London Shine Again (1940)
  • In the Mood (1941)
  • You'll Never Know (1944)
  • No Other Love (1944)
  • Swinging on a Star (1945)
  • I'll Be Seeing You (1945)
  • Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep) (1948)
  • Say Something Sweet to Your Sweetheart (1949)
  • Far Away Places (1949)
  • A Little Bird Told Me (1949)
  • My Foolish Heart (1950)
  • Love Walked In (1956)
  • Wheels Cha Cha (1961)
  • Sucu Sucu (1961)
  • The Maigret Theme (1962)
  • Must Be Madison (1962)
  • March of the Mods (1964)
  • 30 Golden Greats (with The Black & White Minstrels, 1977, UK:goldgold)

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK
  2. ↑ Joe Loss - Find A Grave biography by Erik Skytte, August 9, 2005
  3. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK

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personal data
SURNAME Loss, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loss, Joshua Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician and big band leader
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Spitalfields , London
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1990