Sidney Arnandan or Arnondrin or Arnondin, better known as Sidney Arodin (March 29, 1901,

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- February 6, 1948,

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clarinetist and songwriter, best known for co-writing the

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" Lazy River" with

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. Arodin began playing clarinet at age 15 and played at local New Orleans gatherings and on

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s. He made his way to

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and played with Johnny Stein's New Orleans Jazz Band from 1922. He played with Jimmy Durante in the middle of the decade, then returned to Louisiana to play with

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and

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. In the 1930s he worked with

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and with a reconstituted version of the

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which also featured Manone. After 1941, Arodin's poor health prevented him from playing frequently live, but before this time he recorded with Johnnie Miller, Albert Brunies,

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, and the Jones-Collins Astoria Hot Eight. The oft-repeated claim that many of his performances are mistakenly credited on original recordings to Charlie Cordella is unsubstantiated.

References

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