1. Edwin Frank Duchin, commonly known as Eddy Duchin or alternatively Eddie Duchin, was an American popular music pianist and bandleader during the 1930s and 1940s.
11 Facts About Eddy Duchin
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Eddy Duchin became widely popular thanks to regular radio broadcasts that boosted his record sales, and he was one of the earliest pianists to lead a commercially successful large band.
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Eddy Duchin was a pleasing stage presence whose favourite technique was to play his piano cross-handed, using only one finger on the lower hand, and he was respectful to his audiences and to his classical influences.
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Eddy Duchin often used beautiful, soft-voiced singers such as Durelle Alexander and Lew Sherwood to accommodate his sweet and romantic songs, giving them extra appeal and making them more interesting.
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Eddy Duchin had a 1940 hit with the song "So You're the One" written for him by Hy Zaret, Alex Kramer and Joan Whitney.
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Eddy Duchin entered the US Navy during World War II, serving as a combat officer in a destroyer squadron in the Mediterranean and Pacific.
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Eddy Duchin met his future wife, the socialite Marjorie Oelrichs, at the Waldorf in New York City, and wed at Oelrichs' mother's apartment at the Hotel Pierre on June 5,1935, officiated by Judge Vincent Lippe.
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Eddy Duchin had a second child, born August 15,1938, with model Marguerite O'Malley; and a third, Annette Kalten, born April 26,1940, with Millie Yammarino.
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On February 9,1951, Eddy Duchin died at age 41 at Memorial Hospital in Manhattan of acute myelogenous leukemia.
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Eddy Duchin was cremated, and his ashes were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Eddy Duchin Story is a fictionalized tearjerker, with Tyrone Power in the title role, and piano dubbed by Carmen Cavallaro.