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Joe Candullo and His Everglades Orchestra – Hard-To-Get-Gertie, Fox-Trot (Yellen-Ager) with Vocal chorus by Joe Candullo, Regal 1926 (USA) NOTE: NOTE: Joseph "Joe" CANDULLO (born Giuseppe Antonio Candullo in 1901 in New York City - died 1977 in New York City) American dance bandleader who flourished in the US in the mid-to-late 1920s, though he remained active in public performances from 1930-40s. The son of Italian immigrants, Joe Candullo was spotted in 1921 as a member of the all-Italian Billy Madden's Crescent City Orchestra, which was contracted to the Rector's Club in London and Paris. By 1925 Candullo had his own band, which played at the fashionable Everglades restaurant in New York. Their first recording session under Candullo's name was in February 1926 for the Harmony label, followed by recording sessions on other "dime store" labels such as Banner, Perfect, Oriole, Domino. He occasionally recorded for Pathé Actuelle and Edison. They also performed on WMCA's airwaves. However, during the Great Depression, Joe Candullo's orchestra shared the fate of many American dance bands and disappeared from the mainstream American music scene, leaving behind some very interesting sides of jazz value. Not just the standard "hot titles" of the time, but compositions associated with jazz groups, many of them historically associated with black bands. Joe Candullo's orchestra included at various stages such well-known jazz musicians as Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmy McPartland, Glenn Miller, Mike Mosiello, Nick Farrara or Sylvester Ahola.