Joe Loss's father was a cabinet-maker who had an office furnishing business.
12 Facts About Joe Loss
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Joe Loss attended the Jews' Free School, Trinity College of Music and the London College of Music.
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Joe Loss started violin lessons at the age of seven and later played violin at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool and with Oscar Rabin.
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Joe Loss started band leading in the early 1930s, working at the Astoria Ballroom and soon breaking into variety at the Kit-Cat Club.
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Joe Loss was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions: in May 1963 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Hammersmith Palais in London, and again in October 1980, when Andrews surprised him at London's Portman Hotel during a star-studded party to celebrate Loss' 50 years in show business.
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Joe Loss died on 6 June 1990 and is buried at Bushey Jewish Cemetery in Hertfordshire.
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The Joe Loss Orchestra was one of the most successful acts of the big band era in the 1940s, with hits including "In the Mood".
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Joe Loss was badly in need of a replacement and remembered hearing Rose Brennan on radio during a visit to Ireland.
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Joe Loss stayed with Loss for fifteen years, before giving up show-business in the mid-1960s.
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Joe Loss wrote many of the songs she recorded with Joe Loss under the name Marella, and co-wrote songs with John Harris.
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The Joe Loss Orchestra carries on under the musical direction of Todd Miller, who was a vocalist with the band for 19 years before Loss' death.
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In 1989, Joe Loss became too ill to travel and in 1990 he entrusted the leadership to his longest serving band member, trombonist and player-manager of many decades, Sam Watmough, and Miller.