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Cavalier Records was an American
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founded by Tom Spinosa in San Francisco, California, in the early 1950s.
SFGate.com ''Tom Spinosa, perennial S.F. candidate, dies.'' (2008-11-09; URL accessed 2018-04-17)


Company synopsis

Notables who recorded on Cavalier include guitarist
Nick Lucas Dominic Antonio Nicholas Lucanese (August 22, 1897 – July 28, 1982), better known by his stage name Nick Lucas, was an American jazz singer and guitarist. He was the first jazz guitarist to record as a soloist. His popularity during his life ...
(backed by San Francisco's Jimmy Diamond Orchestra), folk singer-songwriter Stan Wilson, Ronny Draper (younger brother of country singer
Rusty Draper Farrell Haliday "Rusty" Draper (January 25, 1923 – March 28, 2003) was an American country and pop singer and radio and TV host who achieved his greatest success in the 1950s. Biography Born in Kirksville, Missouri, United States, and nick ...
), San Francisco "hum-along" pianist
Burt Bales Burton Franklin Bales (April 20, 1916, in Stevensville, Montana – October 26, 1989, in San Francisco) was an American jazz stride piano, stride pianist. Bales began to play piano at age twelve, and played in hotels and nightclubs in California i ...
, local Western Music performers and entrepreneurs Black Jack Wayne and Chuck Wayne,Black Jack Wayne tribute website
/ref> and singer Gianfranco Giotta, who collaborated with composer John Verducci, Tom Spinosa and the Jimmy Diamond Orchestra to record Cavalier 7"/45 r.p.m. (CV 903) "It's Never Too Late for Love" and Robert Collier's "You Never Can Tell the Depth of a Well" under the title "Gian Franco Sings!" c. 1964.Nick Lucas' Cavalier records
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Cavalier Records Discography at 45cat.com


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