Biography
George Hall And The Hotel Taft Orchestra
Effective period / Period of releases: 1933 - 1937
Members: Tony Mottola, George Paxton, Dolly Dawn, George Hall (11)
George Hall's band got its first taste of success in the 1920s, at the Arcadia Ballroom in New York City as George Hall And His Arcadians, they began recording for Bluebird that year, making some 170 sides for them during the next four years.They appeared in two film shorts, "George Hall and His Orchestra," directed in 1936 by Roy Mack for the Vitaphone Corporation, and "Hall's Holiday," directed in 1938 by Leslie M. Roush for Paramount's "Headliner" series. In 1941, George Hall officially turned the band over to her, and became her manager; the band was renamed Dolly Dawn And Her Dawn Patrol.