The accordion's post-war popularity in America starts with Ernie Felice in 1946. Though George Shearing had recorded on the instrument in London in '39, followed by Art Van Damme on two sides in '45 and Joe Mooney in mid-'46, it's not until after Ernie's success with the Benny Goodman Sextet in late '46 and early '47 that the instrument began to be take…
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