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Fred Rich

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Aliases
The Astorites
The Badgers [Fred Rich]
Chester Leighton & His Sophomores [Fred Rich]
Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra
Fred Rich & His Hotel Astor Orchestra
Fred Rich and His La Palina Orchestra
Fred Rich and His Orchestra
Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra
Freddie Rich and His Orchestra
The Happy Hour Orch.
Hotel Astor Dance Orchestra
La Palina Broadcasters
Lester Moller's Music [Fred Rich]
Lloyd Keating and His Music [Fred Rich]
The New York Syncopators [Fred Rich]
Real name
Frederic Efrem Rich
Born
January 31, 1898
Died
September 8, 1956
Country
United States
Comments
Pianist, bandleader and composer born in Poland
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Originals

Covers by Fred Rich

Title Performer Release date Originally by
1930 The Troubadours - Vocal Refrain by Frank Munn
listen on Internet Archive   1930 Ethel Waters REC, Minto Cato PRF
listen on Internet Archive   1930 Ethel Waters REC,PRF
listen on Internet Archive (Fred Rich, Dick Robertson) 1931 Hoagy Carmichael
listen on Internet Archive (Fred Rich, Dick Robertson) 1931 Wayne King and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ernie Birchill
1929 Lew Bray
listen on Internet Archive i   1940 Nell Carrington PRF, Campbell and Burr REC
listen on Internet Archive It's the Girl Freddie Rich and His Orchestra October 1, 1931 Unverified
1929 Ted Wallace and His Campus Boys (Ed Kirkeby)
listen on Internet Archive i 1940 Burr and Campbell
Just A Dancing Sweetheart Freddie Rich's Radio Orchestra Vocals by Ben Alley (Fred Rich, Ben Alley) November 5, 1931 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1926 (unknown), Fred Hall & His Roseland Orchestra
1926 Edith Lorand Orchester REC, Hilanderas y pescadores PRF, Mistinguett, (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive i 1926 Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Billy Jones
i 1926 Esther Walker and Ed Smalle
i 1925 Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Arthur Hall
i I Wouldn't Be Where I Am If You Hadn't Gone Away Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1925 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive   December 1926 Philip Spitalny and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Charles Hart REC, Honey Duke and His Uke (Johnny Marvin) REL
1926 (unknown)
i 1925 The Ambassadors under direction of Louis Katzman
November 1926 Teddy Brown and His Café de Paris Band
i 1926 Sally Freeman
listen on Internet Archive December 1926 Billy Jones [US1]
You Told Me to Go Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1925 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive   1927 Zelma O'Neal PRF, George Olsen and His Music - Vocal Refrain by Bob Borger, Fran Frey, Bob Rice REC
listen on Internet Archive 1927 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1926 Ed Smalle
listen on Internet Archive   1926 Marie Saxon, Jack Whiting and Chorus PRF, Okeh Syncopators (Harry Raderman, Director) REC
1926 Johnny Marvin
listen on Internet Archive 1926 Kammersänger C. Richard Tauber, Harry Pollock & His Club Maurice Diamonds – Vocal Chorus, Arthur Hall
1926 (unknown), Fred Hall & His Roseland Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1927 Al Jolson
  1928 Marion Harris REC, Adele Astaire PRF
1930 Jacques Renard & His Orchestra
At Your Command Fred Rich and His Orchestra 1931 Unverified
April 1931 Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bing Crosby
listen on Internet Archive 1931 Joe Venuti's Blue Four
  1930 Frank Crumit and Julia Sanderson BRD, Ted Wallace and His Campus Boys (Ed Kirkeby) REC
April 1931 The Radiolites [Sam Lanin]
listen on Internet Archive 1931 Melotone Boys
listen on Internet Archive i 1926 Missouri Jazz Band – Vocal Chorus Billy Jones
1929 Jesse Stafford and His Palace Hotel Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1929 Nick Lucas "The Crooning Troubadour"
listen on Internet Archive 1929 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive   January 1927 Harland Dixon, Betty Compton, Paulette Winston, Constance Carpenter, Janette Gilmore & Ensemble PRF, George Gershwin REL, Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra REC
listen on Internet Archive i   January 1927 Gertrude Lawrence REC, George Gershwin REL
listen on Internet Archive 1928 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1928 Busby Berkeley and Joyce Barber
listen on Internet Archive 1927 Bill Perry's Entertainers - Vocal Duet The Radio Imps
listen on Internet Archive   1927 Frank Crumit - Frank Banta at the piano REC, Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Charles Harrison REL
  1926 Mike Markels' Orchestra REC, The Aristocrats [US1] REL
October 1926 Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra
  February 1931 Jacques Renard and His Orchestra REL, Dick Robertson and His Orchestra REC
  1930 Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns PRF, Majestic Dance Orchestra [Lou God] - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman REC
  1930 Ivy St. Helier REL,PRF
1930 Ethel Merman
  1930 Peggy Wood & George Metaxa REC,REL,PRF
1934 (unknown)
1930 Hotel Pennsylvania Music - Vocal Chorus by Bill Coty
1930 Elsie Carlisle
1929 Carl Haworth
listen on Internet Archive 1929 Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1929 Irving Kaufman
  1934 Art Jarrett BRD, Harold Arlen with Orchestral Acc. Dir. by Ray Sinatra REC
1929 Helen Kane
January 1927 Miss Annette Hanshaw and The Red Heads
Our Bungalow Of Dreams Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra 1927 Unverified
February 1928 Kitty O'Connor
listen on Internet Archive 1928 Freddie Rose
  December 1927 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
listen on Internet Archive 1928 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive June 1928 Arthur Ball
Are You Happy? Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra – Vocal Chorus The Joy Boys 1927 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1927 Ted Lewis and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Ted Lewis
listen on Internet Archive   1927 Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra with Vocal Refrain Seger Ellis REL, Vaughn De Leath (The Radio Girl) ‑ Bill Regis at the piano REC
listen on Internet Archive   (Fred Rich) 1926 Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders - Vocal Refrain by Billy Murray REC,REL, Bobbe Arnst & John Price Jones PRF
1926 The Buffalodians
1926 Missouri Jazz Band – Vocal Chorus Billy Jones
i Are You Happy? Imperial Dance Orchestra [Fred Rich] 1927 Unverified
  (Fred Rich) 1929 Charles Dornberger and His Orchestra REL, Dave Bernie and His Orchestra REC
Singin' in the Rain La Palina Broadcasters - Vocal Chorus by Irving Kaufman (Irving Kaufman, Fred Rich) August 1929 Unverified
1931 Lester McFarland and Robert A. Gardner
1930 Isham Jones
1930 Tom Gerun and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive   1931 Kathryn Crawford, June Shafer, Ida Pearson and Stella Friend PRF, Waring's Pennsylvanians - Vocal Refrain by The Three Waring Girls REC
1930 Roy Evans
i   (Fred Rich) 1927 Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra – Vocal Chorus The Joy Boys REC, Helen Ford & Lester Cole PRF
i (Fred Rich) 1926 Walter Scanlan (Walter Van Brunt)
listen on Internet Archive (Fred Rich) 1927 Van and Schenck
listen on Internet Archive   1926 Philip Spitalny and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Charles Hart REC, Honey Duke and His Uke (Johnny Marvin) REL
listen on Internet Archive July 1926 The Buffalodians
listen on Internet Archive July 1926 Missouri Jazz Band – Vocal Chorus Billy Jones
listen on Internet Archive 1927 Ford and Glenn
listen on Internet Archive 1927 Isham Jones Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1927 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive   1927 Belle Baker PRF, Imperial Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Arthur Fields REC
listen on Internet Archive March 1927 Johnny Marvin
1927 Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra
(Fred Rich) January 1927 (unknown)
1931 Hannah Williams and Company

Releases

Singles

Title Performer Release date Label
A Little Bit Bad – Ev'rything's Gonna Be All Right Fred Rich and His Orchestra – Mike Speciale and His Orchestra 1926 Perfect [US1]
A Little Music in the Moonlight - I'd Love to Call You My Sweetheart The Harmonians - The Astorites 1927 Harmony [US]
All Alone Monday Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Frank Harris 1926 Columbia [US]
All That I'm Asking Is Sympathy - Lonely Troubadour Frank Raymond's Dance Orch. - Ed Valland's Orch. 1929 Broadway [US1]
A Peach of a Pair – I'll Be Blue, Just Thinking of You (From Now On) Chester Leighton and His Sophomores – Lloyd Keating and His Music [Fred Rich] 1930 Harmony [US]
At Your Command Fred Rich and His Orchestra 1931 Columbia [US]
Blue Skies – Moonbeam! Kiss Her for Me The Astorites – Lou Gold and His Orchestra 1927 Harmony [US]
By the River Sainte Marie Lloyd Keating and His Music [Fred Rich] - Vocal Chorus by Bill Coty 1931 Harmony [US]
Can This Be Love - You're My little Rhapsody in Blue Fred Rich and His La Palina Orchestra - Arthur Fields and His Orchestra 1930 Perfect [US1]
Cheerful Little Earful The New York Syncopators [Fred Rich] 1931 Odeon
Clap Yo' Hands Fred Rich & His Hotel Astor Orchestra January 1927 Columbia [US]
Could I? I Certainly Could Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1926 Harmony [US]
Did You Mean It? The Astorites (Fred Rich) 1927 Harmony [US]
Do I Hear You Saying: "I Love You?" Fred Rich & His Hotel Astor Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by James Melton 1928 Columbia [US]
Dream Kisses - Sorry Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra - Fletcher Henderson's Collegians February 1928 Regal [US1]
Embraceable You Fred Rich & His Orchestra 1930 Columbia [US]
Falling in Love with You – Clover Blossoms The Astorites – Melody Waltz Orchestra 1926 Harmony [US]
Feelin' Kind o' Blue Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1925 Harmony [US]
Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue – I Wouldn't Be Where I Am if You Hadn't Gone Away Billy Wynne & His Orch. – Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1925 Harmony [US]
For My Baby - The Man I Love Leo Reisman & His Orch. - Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orch. 1928 Columbia [US]
Gone Again Gal – I'll Fly to Hawaii The Astorites – The Night Club Orchestra November 1926 Harmony [US]
Guess Who? – Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine) Jan Garber and His Orchestra – Fred Rich and His Orchestra 1929 Columbia [US]
Half a Moon – Who'll Be the One? The Astorites – Lou Gold and His Orchestra March 1927 Harmony [US]
Hello, Aloha! How Are You? Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1926 Harmony [US]
He's So Unusual Fred Rich & His Orch. 1929 Columbia [US]
High, High, High up in the Hills Fred Rich & His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1927 Columbia [US]
Hilo Moon – Sweetness The Caroliners – Freddie Rich and His Orchestra 1929 Cameo [US1]
Honey – You Can't Take Away - The Things That Were Made for Love The Rounders – Fred Rich & His Orchestra 1929 Regal [US1]
Honolulu Moon - I'll Take Care of Your Cares Joe Candullo and His Orchestra - The Astorites 1927 Harmony [US]
Hoosier Sweetheart The Badgers [Fred Rich] 1927 Puritan [US1]
How Many Times? The Astorites (Vocal Chorus by Irving Kaufman) July 1926 Harmony [US]
How Many Times? Hotel Astor Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Ray Stillwell 1926 OKeh
I Can't Get Over a Girl Like You – (I've Grown So Lonesome) Thinking of You Hotel Astor Dance Orchestra – Dixie Music Makers 1926 Romeo
I Don't Want Your Kisses (If I Can't Have Your Love) Fred Rich and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Rollickers Qt. 1929 Columbia [US]
If Love Were All Fred Rich & His Orchestra 1930 Columbia [US]
If You See Sally – While I Have You Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra – Missouri Jazz Band 1927 Banner [US1]
I Get the Blues When It Rains Fred Rich & His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman 1929 Conqueror
I Love Love – I'm Tickled Pink with a Blue Eyed Baby Jerry Mason and His Californians – Lloyd Keating & His Music 1930 Harmony [US]
I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover - Take Your Finger out of Your Mouth Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra - Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra April 1927 Banner [US1]
I'm Sitting on Top of the World - I Never Knew Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra - Lou Gold and His Orchestra 1925 Harmony [US]
I'm Walking Around in a Dream La Palina Broadcasters (Fred Rich) 1929 Perfect [US1]
I Surrender, Dear Fred Rich and His Orchestra April 1931 OKeh
It All Depends on You Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1927 Columbia [US]
It Made You Happy When You Made Me Cry The Astorites - Vocal Chorus by Paul Hagan 1927 Harmony [US]
(I've Grown So Lonesome) Thinking of You The Happy Hour Orch. (Fred Rich) January 1927 OKeh
I Want to Meander in the Meadow / Where the Sweet Forget-Me-Nots Remember Imperial Dance Orchestra – The Rounders 1929 Regal [US1]
I Wonder How I Look When I'm Asleep Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra – Vocal Chorus The Joy Boys April 1927 Banner [US1]
Just a Little Longer – Cross Your Heart The Astorites - Manhattan Dance Makers 1926 Harmony [US]
Just Like a Butterfly (That's Caught in the Rain) – (Oh, the Whippoorwill Sings in the Sycamore) Just the Same Ipana Troubadours – Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1927 Columbia [US]
Katinka Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1926 Columbia [US]
Laugh Clown Laugh – Goodnight Frank Raymond's Dance Orchestra – Earl Randolph's Orchestra 1928 Broadway [US1]
Laugh, Clown, Laugh – Last Night I Dreamed You Kissed Me Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra – Herbert Spencer & His Orchestra June 1928 Regal [US1]
Laughing at Life – Just a Little While Hotel Pennsylvania Music – Chester Leighton & His Sophomores 1930 Harmony [US]
Let's Fall in Love Fred Rich & His Orchestra 1934 Columbia [US]
Lucky Day – Why Do You Want to Know Why? The Harmonians - The Astorites 1926 Harmony [US]
Lucky in Love Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Baur Shaw & Luther 1927 Columbia [US]
Magnolia - One O'Clock Baby Julie Wintz and His Hofbrau Orchestra - The Astorites 1927 Harmony [US]
Moonlight on the Ganges Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra November 1926 Columbia [US]
Mother Dear – Don't Take That Black Bottom Away Elmer Grosso's Greenwich Village Orchestra – Fred Rich & His Times Square Orchestra January 1927 Gennett
My Baby Just Cares for Me - Wasting My Love on You Hotel Pennsylvania Music - Lloyd Keating and His Music 1930 Harmony [US]
My Blue Heaven Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra December 1927 Banner [US1]
My Ideal – The Little Things in Life Lanin's Famous Players – Fred Rich and His Orchestra 1930 Harmony [US]
No One but You (Knows How to Love) – Don't Forget Johnny Silvester & His Orch. – Fred Rich & His Times Square Orch. November 1926 Gennett
Normandy – So Tired Markel's Society Favorites – Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra 1928 Regal [US1]
On the Riviera Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra (Vocal Chorus by Lewis James) 1926 Columbia [US]
Poor Papa Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1926 Harmony [US]
Pretty Cinderella Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1926 Columbia [US]
Rio Rita – Silver Song Bird Hollywood Dance Orchestra – Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra 1927 Regal [US1]
Rockin' Chair Frank Auburn & His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bobby Dix (Fred Rich, Dick Robertson) 1931 Harmony [US]
Sing Something Simple Fred Rich & His Orchestra 1930 Columbia [US]
Sweetheart, We Need Each Other – I Would Give You a Million Tomorrows (For One Yesterday) Fred Rich & His Orchestra – Majestic Dance Orchestra 1930 Banner [US1]
That's a Good Girl Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra December 1926 Columbia [US]
The Blue Room – Who Wouldn't Sam Lanin and His Orchestra – Fred Rich and His Orchestra 1926 Cameo [US1]
There's a Cradle in Caroline – Baltimore Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra – Al Lynch & His Orchestra 1927 Domino [US1]
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi – Dream River Fred Rich's Dance Orchestra – Nathan Glantz & His Orchestra 1928 Regal [US1]
Till We Meet Again Freddie Rich and His Orchestra 1940 Vocalion [US]
Together, We Two – Baby Feet Go Pitter Patter ('Cross My Floor) Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra – Harry Reser's Syncopators January 1928 Columbia [US]
Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals - In the Middle of the Night Bar Harbor Society Orchestra – Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra 1926 Harmony [US]
Trudy Fred Rich & His Hotel Astor Orchestra - Vocal chorus by Ray Stillwell October 1926 Columbia [US]
Valencia Fred Rich & Alan Moran (Vocal Chorus by Ray Stillwell) 1926 Columbia [US]
What Would I Care? Fred Rich & His Orchestra 1930 Columbia [US]
When I Take My Sugar to Tea Fred Rich and His Orchestra 1931 OKeh
When Your Hair Has Turned tTo Silver – I'm the Last One Left on the Corner Lester Moller's Music – Fred Rich and His Orchestra 1931 OKeh
When You Were the Blossom of Buttercup Lane and I Was Your Little Boy Blue Fred Rich & His Orch. February 1931 Columbia [US]
Who Do You Love? The Astorites (Fred Rich) 1927 Harmony [US]
Wishing and Waiting for Love Fred Rich and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Rollickers Qt. 1929 Columbia [US]
Without You Sweetheart – Our Bungalow of Dreams The Rounders – Fred Rich Dance Orchestra 1928 Regal [US1]
You're Lucky to Me Chester Leighton & His Sophomores [Fred Rich] - Vocal Chorus by Chester Leighton 1930 Harmony [US]
Zulu Wail – Ask Me Another Haring's Happy Harmonizers – Fred Rich & His Times Square Orchestra August 1927 Gennett