Victor Silvester

Victor Silvester conducting his Ballroom Orchestra in 1938. Oscar Grasso is at left on violin.

Victor Marlborough Silvester OBE (25 February 1900[1] – 14 August 1978)[2] was an English dancer, writer, musician and bandleader from the British dance band era. He was a significant figure in the development of ballroom dance during the first half of the 20th century, and his records sold 75 million copies from the 1930s through to the 1980s.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ The date of the relief of Mafeking, and the probable reason for his first name. (autobiog.)
  2. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2267. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
  3. ^ Scott, Derek B. 2004. Silvester, Victor Marlborough (1900–1978), in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.
  4. ^ Silvester, Victor Marlborough (1900-1978) in Who Was Who, A&C Black, London, 2007.
  5. ^ Allmusic: Victor Silvester Eder, Bruce. "Victor Silvester > Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 May 2010. (includes some inaccuracies)