Frank Virtue

Frank Virtue was among the founders in back of the postwar pop music growth in Philadelphia. A prodigiously talented guitarist and bassist, and a gifted arranger, he was operating expertly while still in university and became a bandleader throughout a yr spent in america Navy. In 1947 he founded the Virtuoso Trio, which 12 years later on became the Virtues, the instrumental music group in charge of the 1959 solitary “Acoustic guitar Boogie Shuffle.” Virtue remaining the group, disbanding it, in 1962 and proceeded to go into creation, founding his personal studio room where he sometimes documented a descendant band of types, the Virtuoso Orchestra, aswell therefore singles as Eddie Holman’s “HI Lonely Woman,” among several other performers. Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff had been later major makers centered at Virtue’s studio room.