Geraldo’s Gaucho Tango Orchestra – Oh! Rosalita [Oh, Fräulein Grete!] Tango (J.Llossas) with Vocal Chorus, Columbia 1931 (UK)

NOTE: GERALDO (born Gerald Walcan Bright 1903 in London - died 1974 in Vevey, Switzerland) is a British bandleader, organist and pianist who trained at the Royal Academy of Music. At the age of 16 he ran away from home, boarded the HMS Cameronia and sailed to New York and back as a member of the ship's dance orchestra. In the early 1920s Bright led a number of dance ensembles, and from 1925 he was contracted at the Majestic Hotel in St Anne's-on-the-Sea. In 1930, Bright and his band toured Latin America, where he absorbed the sounds of the orquesta tipica. He billed his musicians as the "Geraldo Gaucho Tango Band," and upon his return to the UK, he had great success with audiences at the Savoy Hotel in London and enjoyed the title of Tango King in England for several years. In 1937, the "Gauchos" disappeared and Geraldo returned to leading a regular swing-dance orchestra under the name Geraldo & His Sweet Music, taking a dominant position in Britain in this genre. Geraldo always had top-notch musicians and excellent arrangements. In 1938, he began Sunday Night Swing Club concerts at the St. Martin Theater and toured extensively throughout the war. After World War II, Geraldo went into music management, supplying bands for Cunard liners, orchestras for theaters, and was music director for Scottish Television.

This evergreen German tango - written by German-Spanish bandleader and composer Juan Llossas in honor of international film star Greta Garbo - is performed by Geraldo in true tango fashion, unlike many Anglo-American dance bands of the time, which loved to mix the rhythm of a real tango with foxtrots or swing. Let the slideshow to this beautiful music be one more review of fabulous English posters from the interwar period with some English "Rosalites" on them.

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