Trivia

Arranged for orchestra by Fritz Weiss influenced by Benny Goodman's orchestra his orchestra played both original and original compositions.

In 1939, he founded his own orchestra named the Karel Vlach Orchestra.

There is a street named after him in Prague 13 - Vlachova.

From 1954 he worked at the ABC Theater and from 1962 at the Musical Theater in Karlín.

He recorded prolifically with the record label Supraphon and his output includes both light classical and orchestral as well as jazz and pop arrangements for big band with strings.

In the years 1931 - 1933 he was unemployed, but afterwards in the 1930s, Karel Vlach was involved in the groups Blue Music and in his own group Charles Happy Boys, later renamed Blue Boys.

He first worked as a business assistant (L. Phona, Finger and Stein) and later as a procurator.

From 1940, he performed with the orchestra on Strelec Island and started working with the Allan Sisters trio.

He studied the violin during elementary school. After elementary school, he joined the Zizkov real school.

He and his musical colleagues Dalibor Brazda and Gustav Brom also arranged and recorded many titles for British singer Gery Scott in the late 1950s, mostly from what is now termed the American Songbook series. Many of these titles are now collectors items.

Karel Vlach was a Czech dance orchestra conductor and arranger.

After the Second World War, Vlach put together a new orchestra, which was primarily oriented towards the sound of Glenn Miller. Singers Václav Irmanov, Rudolf Cortés and Jirina Salacová performed with the orchestra.

He founded his first orchestra in 1938.

He arranged and conducted many Czech film scores from 1940 to 1980.

In 1947-48 Vlach's orchestra cooperated with the V+W Theatre (former Osvobozené divadlo).

He launched the singing careers of Czech artists Yvetta Simonová (whom he married) and Milan Chladil in 1958.

Many important composers, instrumentalists and arrangers of the Czech jazz scene gradually went through his band.

He died of a heart attack while preparing the musical Some like it hot.

He also collaborated with a number of leading singers (Arnost Kavka, Inka Zemánková or Jirina Salacová).

In the years 1925 - 1928, he trained as a sales assistant in the haberdashery company Kauders.