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2 unusual facts about Eddy Duchin


Eddy Duchin

The film did well in theaters, and was well enough known to be referenced in one of Columbia's Three Stooges shorts: the Stooges' spaceship is about to crash when Joe Besser yelps, "I don't want to die! I can't die! I haven't seen The Eddy Duchin Story yet!"

Duchin had no formal music training—which was said to frustrate his musicians at times—but he developed a style rooted in classical music that some saw as the forerunner of Liberace's ornate, gaudy approach.


Carol Sudhalter

Sudhalter grew up in a musical family: Her father Albert played the alto saxophone in the New England area with the bands of Herbie Marsh, Eddy Duchin, Bobby Hackett and others.

It's De-Lovely

The hit records in late 1936 and early 1937 included versions by Eddy Duchin, Shep Fields, and Will Osborne.


see also

To Love Again

"To Love Again", version of My Twilight Dream by Eddy Duchin, featured in The Eddy Duchin Story (1956); a resetting of Chopin's Nocturne in E-flat major, op. 9 no. 2;