The soundtrack from the first season of the HBO series “Boardwalk Empire,” featuring Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, won this year’s Grammy award for best compilation soundtrack album for visual media.
Stomp Off Records, a York-based recording company owned by Bob Erdos, had produced two CDs by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks. Giordano’s “Quality Shout” has been Stomp Off’s best selling CD since Erdos started the company in 1980.
Giordano and the Nighthawks have appeared at the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center and at the Yorktowne Hotel for the hotel’s 70th anniversary celebration.”
Read a New York Times interview with Giordano.
York Sunday News columnist Gordon Freireich wrote about the connection in an Oct. 3, 2010 column:
Erdos was thrilled to see (Giordano, who plays a 1920s band leader on “Boardwalk Empire”) in scenes of the show. He notes that the music was played by Vince’s band for the show’s soundtrack, but not all the band members appeared as musicians on the show. In fact, some were in other crowd scenes.
Erdos’ love of jazz goes back to his days in high school. While a student at Yale Law School, he formed a jazz band. He eventually moved to York and later retired as senior executive vice president of Danskin. He started Stomp Off Records as he was departing Danskin. Stomp Off Records preserves and sells ragtime and jazz music from all over the world. There are more than 430 recordings in Bob’s lineup.
Read more of Freireich’s writing on his York At Heart blog.
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