Artist: Metropolitan Orchestra
Author: Emile Waldteufel
Label: Victor Monarch
Year: 1902
As Les Patiniers (sic). German title: Die Schlittschühlaufer. Written in 1882 and inspired by the Cercle des Patineurs at the Bois de Boulogne in Paris.
Covers:
New York Military Band Edison [as The Skater's Waltz]
Bob Crosby [as Skaters Waltz In Swingtime]
Arturo Toscanini [with the NBC Symphony Orch in Carnegy Hall]
Paul Simon [as Rock 'n Roll Skaters Waltz under alias Jerry Landis]
In the Netherlands known as Tijs Op Het IJs, probably inspired by the eponymous reading lesson from W.G. Van de Hulst's instruction book Ha! Lezen! - part 1A (1939).
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