Tomtarnas Vaktparad / Spökbrigaden

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Album Info

Release Date: 1937-05

Label: Sonora

Made in Sweden on some and some without MIS on labels

NCB on both labels

Recorded in Stockholm Jan. 1937 and released in May the same year.

Although no markings show on label, the 1000 series was called "Orchestra & Concert"

Håkan was famous for being the "first big band leader of Sweden"
and also the german version ”Der Schwedische Jazzkönig”

Original titles:
A: Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade aka "The Brownies' Guard Parade", op. 5 in D major, 1912
Written by Kurt Noack (13 February 1893 – 1 January 1945) a German composer of light music.
There are numerous arrangements (some by the composer himself) for piano two hands, for piano four hands, for salon orchestra, for orchestra, for string quartet, for bassoon quartet, etc.

B: The Phantom Brigade, march
Written by George Arnold Haynes Safroni-Middleton, also known as Count Safroni (born in Kent on 3 September 1873, died in Streatham on 7 November 1950) a British composer, director, violinist, harpist, writer and amateur astronomer. For several works he used the pseudonym William H. Myddleton.

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