Background
Migliaccio was born in Naples, Italy in 1882.
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Oreste Migliaccio
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Career
His band Oreste and his Queensland Orchestra was popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He immigrated to the United States arriving at Ellis Island, New York on September 22, 1902. He began composing as early as 1908 when his, Gatling Gun Rag was published followed up in 1910 by Mexican Belle: Novelty Dance and Wholesale Love.
He also wrote Tommy and co-wrote I"ve Got a Ragtime Bee in My Bonnet both in 1911, with Georgia in 1917 and So you"re goin" to be married: (God bless you) in 1918.
He was still composing as late as 1927 when he co-wrote Rosy Cheeks with Harry Doctorate. Squires and J. Donald Parker. In 1919 he was working at the Opera Stars Confectionary Company in New New York
lieutenant wasn"t until the early 1920s he was successfully working as a musician and led a band at the Peek-Inn in New New York By 1926 he was leading the orchestra at the Queensland Ballroom on Wyckoff Avenue in Brooklyn, New New York
lieutenant was at this period that he began recording a considerable amount of record sides for Edison with his Queensland Orchestra, recording over thirty sides from 1926 to 1929.
On two of these recordings Migliaccio played solo piano. Edison was still recording the old fashioned mechanical way and a few of the recorded titles were rejected. Some of the musicians who played in the band during this time included Jimmy Dorsey, Red Nichols and Don Murray.
Many more of his compositions were published and recorded.
So popular were the Oreste Queensland Orchestra"s recordings that Jazz Oracle released some of their Edison recordings in 2005 on a Civil Defense album entitled Edison Hot Dance Obscurities, Volume 2. By 1930 he was living in Bellaire, New York in a house he had purchased.
He died in 1973.
