| Gino Bordin (1899 - 1977) Born on February 4, 1899 in Vicenza, in the north east Italy. His eldest brother led an orchestra in which Gino played the musical saw and sometimes harp-guitar acquired from Luigi Mozzani, at Cesta. There he struck up a friendship with the prodigy Mario Maccaferri. His name first appeared beside that of Michel Péguri, an accordionist, on a Perfectaphone disc where the record label showed " banjo : Gino Bordin". Although he later abandoned this banjo for guitar and Hawaiian guitar, he continued to play with musette accordionists until the end of his career. In the 1920s Gino supported other accordionists on his guitar and chanteurs and chanteuses also began to call on his talents as accompanist and writer. All doors opened for him, and, significantly, those to the recording studios. When the record companies realised the sudden taste for Hawaiian guitar, the slenderness of their catalogue licensed from America in this genre and the need to add a repertoire more to French public taste, they turned naturally to Gino Bordin, already a virtuoso on the instrument. Perfectaphone recorded Dreamland and Beautiful Hawaï by Gino Bordin, Hawaiian guitar. Then Pathé issued in early 1928 four other covers of standards interpreted by a Hawaiian Trio, Bordin, Kamenetsky and de Lignori. From then Gino Bordin went on to record hundreds of titles for at least 15 labels, in his own name and also under various pseudonyms. There are at least 120 sides for Parlophone ... |
