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Dan Del Fiorentino an American music historian and former radio program director. Best known for coining the phrase "The Sing Era" and for heading the NAMM Oral History archives.
Broadcasting He began broadcasting on radio station KMAH in 1983. Dan was later the first program director for KECA Radio in Menlo Park, CA and used in the Big Band and early jazz format, which continues today.
Never one to want to hear his own voice, Dan conducted his first interview when he was 17 years old with jazz sideman James "Trummy" Young. He used the interview to play on his radio show in substitute for talking. Soon the idea caught on and he recorded several artists from the 1930s and 40s such as Lena Horne, Les Paul, Cab Callaway, Jonah Jones, Lionel Hampton, Milt Hinton and Gerry Mulligan. Dan won several awards for his work. He recorded over 100 interviews for his radio programs.
Among the highlights of his early interviews was a lively conversation with Phil Harris recorded in July 1984 and a series of interviews with trumpeter Jonah Jones. Dan also taped a phone interview with electronic music pioneer and cartoon music director Raymond Scott just prior to Mr. Scott's debilitating stroke in the 1980s.
While programming for KCEA, Dan conducted research and discovered there was no clever term to describe the period of time in American popular music between the end of the Swing Era and the beginning of Rock and Roll. Since the Billboard charts were flooded with top hits by the likes of Patti Page, Nat King Cole, Kay Starr, Dean Martin, Rosemary Clooney and others, Dan began referring to this time as "the sing era.". Soon others began using the term, including Billboard Magazine itself. Ironically, Dan's own personal passion is of R&B music of that time period by such artists as Fats Domino, Big Mama Thorton and Big Joe Turner, which are not reflected in his own "Sing Era" phrase.
Over the years Dan has written Rticles on music and those he has interviewed and contributed to the Big Band website, Jazzology (which he co created) and for (platters).
In 1998 Dan was hired by NAMM, the Interntional Music Products Association to develop the organization's Resource Library and to serve as the first curator for NAMM's Musuem of Making Music. Two years later the first interview was conducted for the NAMM Oral History Collection, which seeks to archive the history of the music products industry. Among the interviews within the NAMM Oral History collection are those with music retailers, manufacturers, music educators and publishers.
The RPMDA presented Dan with their 2009 Sandy Feldstein Service Award, the first individual to earn the award, for his contribtions in documenting the history of print music.
In 2012 NAMM announced that Dan completied the 2,000th interview for the Oral History program.
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