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Henry Hall & His BBC Dance Orch. with Vocal chorus – Play To Me, Gypsy, Tango (Vacek-Kennedy) Columbia 1934 (UK) NOTE: One of the best dance bands in the big band era in London was undoubtedly the BBC Dance Orchestra conducted by Henry Hall (1898-1989). He replaced in 1932 Jack Payne in charge of the BBC Orchestra, after Henry Hall spent nearly a decade directing the dance band of the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland. He began his BBC career having recorded the songs "Here Comes the Bogeyman" and "Teddy Bears' Picnic" featuring Val Rosing,...

Ray STARITA and His Ambassadors Band – My Flame Of Love, Waltz (Bryan & Nicholls) Columbia 1929 (UK) NOTE: There were 4 American-Italian Starita brothers and they were all musicians: the eldest Rudy Starita (drums, vibraphones and xylophone) born in Naples, followed by Ray [Renato] born in Chelsea, MA (saxophonist and clarinetist), Al (alto saxophone and clarinetist) and Julio Starita (saxophone and piano). Ray STARITA and his brothers formed a dance band in Boston in 1921. Two years later, Ray and Al moved to the UK, where they signed...

Eugeniusz Mossakowski, Baritone from the Warsaw Opera & Organ - Lulajże Jezuniu (Hush, Infant Jezus) Polish Christmas carol, Syrena-Electro 1929 (Polish) TO ALL DEAR FRIENDS AND VISITORS IN THIS CHANNEL A HAPPY AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS 2023! from GRZEGORZ (240252) NOTE: The lullaby "Lulajże Jezuniu" [Hush, Infant Jezus] is among the oldest Polish Christmas carols. Its original text, dated 1705, is in the Museum of the...

Tanz-Orchester „Sascha Elmo” (Efim Schachmeister) – Zuleika, Fox-trot Oriental von Garcia, Polyphon c. 1924 (Germany; accoustical recording) NOTE: Efim SCHACHMEISTER (born 1894 in Kiev, Tsarist Empire - died 1944 in Buenos Aires, Argentina). In age of 16 he was sent to the Stern Conservatory in Berlin to accomplish his musical education. In 1915, as a violinist, he joined the Popescu Tanz-Orchester, of which he soon became director. After a period of ragtime dance music, Schachmeister moved to the "jazz train" around the mid-1920s and in...

Imperial Dance Orchestra & The Strollers Quartet - Hello Baby, Fox-Trot from the "The Forward Pass” (Magidson-Washington-Cleary) Regal 1929 (USA) NOTE: The film comedy "The Forward Pass," starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Loretta Young, premiered on November 1, 1929, but due to the turmoil caused by the events of "Black Monday" (the onset of the Great Depression) the actual release was later (the sheet notes for the song were released on January 1, 1930). The film is considered lost, but songs written by Herb Magidson survived, including...

Chór Dana (The Dan’s Choir) – Nie krępuj się (Don’t Be Embarassed) [Original title: Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear] Slow-fox z teatru „Banda” (From the cabaret „Banda”) (Hoffman, Nelson, Goodhart, Ager – Polish text by Marian Hemar) Syrena-Electro 1932 (Polish) NOTE: Founded in 1929 in Warsaw by composer and pianist Wladyslaw Dan, the Dan Choir, inspired by the birth of the Comedian Harmonists in Germany in 1927, became Poland's most popular revelers during the decade of the 1930s, and continued to perform with a different lineup for several...

Club de Vingt Orchestra - Rosy Cheeks, Fox-Trot (Harry D. Squires), Edison 1921 (USA) NOTE: In 1915, the first-class nightclub Club de Vingt opened in William Vanderbilt's former stable on Madison Avenue/52nd Street, and a year later it moved to the two-story Alice Vanderbilt's Stables Building on 58th Street, built in 1880 in the French Renaissance style. Club de Vingt immediately became a meeting place for New York celebrities: the Belmonts, the Vanderbilts, Mrs. Havemeyer and the Harrimans made the club "a meeting place for members of...

Cab Calloway & His Orchestra – Happy Feet, Fox-Trot (Ager-Yellen) from the movie „King of Jazz” with Vocal Chorus by Cab Calloway, Perfect, 1930 (USA) NOTE: Cab (Cabell) CALLOWAY (1907 – 1994) needs no introduction to visitors to this channel. Singer, songwriter, dancer and bandleader, he was one of the geniuses of Harlem's jazz era. He performed mainly at the Cotton Club in its heyday, displaying his extraordinary musicianship, temperament and new artistic visions, exerting a huge influence on the progression trends of modern jazz. Here,...

Levee Loungers (dir. Willard Robinson) – My Melancholy Baby (Norton-Burnett) Fox-Trot with Vocal Chorus: Frank Bessinger, Perfect 1927 (USA) NOTE: Willard ROBISON (b. Shelbina, Missouri 1894 - d. 1968) American dance band leader, singer, pianist and composer of popular songs, some of which, including 'A Cottage For Sale', 'Round My Old Deserted Farm', 'Don't Smoke In Bed', ''Taint So, Honey, 'Taint So' became standards recorded countless times by jazz & pop artists (Peggy Lee, Nina Simone, Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, Bing Crosby, Mildred...

Chór Juranda & Ork. Odeon pod dyr. Arkadi Flato – Andriusza [Andriusha] fokstrot (Białostocki – Starski), Odeon 1934 (Polish) NOTE: In the USA and Europe in the late 1920s and early 1930s through the 1940s and 1950s, male vocal quartets or quintets were extremely popular, replaced in the 1960s and later the beat & rock groups (such as The Beatles and others). Among such singing troubadours of the interwar period, the most popular were The Revelers and Mills Bros in the USA, and in Europe the German group Comedian Harmonists. In Poland in...

Tino Rossi & Orchestre dir. Marius Coste – La Belle, ouvrez moi-donc [La Belle, Open The Door For Me] Chanson du film „Le Gardian”, (Paroles de Jacques Larue - Musique de R. Marbot, d’après une vieille mélodie [based on an old tune] Columbia 1946 (French) NOTE: Tino ROSSI ( b. 1907 Ajaccio, Corsica – d. 1983 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France). One of the most popular French pop and cabaret singers in the 20th century. During his career he recorded over 2000 songs and appeared in more than 25 films. In 1982, President François Mitterrand named...

Connie’s Inn Orchestra [dir. by Fletcher Henderson] – You Rascal You (S. Theard), Fox-Trot with Vocal Chorus, Melotone 1931 (USA) NOTE: Connie's Inn was a nightclub in Harlem founded in 1923 by Latvian immigrant Connie (Conrad) Immerman (1893-1967) in partnership with his two brothers, Georgie and Louie. They ran a New York deli (Fats Waller was their delivery boy) and made a fortune as bootleggers. Their club was located in a basement at 2221 Seventh Avenue at 131st Street from 1923 to 1934. Like the Cotton Club, Connie's Inn presented...

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Sometimes I’m Happy, Sometimes I’m Blue, Fox-Trot (Caesar, Youmans) HMV 1935 (UK product; recorded in USA) NOTE: This performance by Goodman's orchestra is a real masterpiece. I love the way the smooth 70-second orchestral introduction - which is played in the elegant ballroom dance style of the late 1920s - is suddenly followed by a fantastic geyser of solo instrumental displays, including immortal Benny’s clarinet. And this brilliant new-style dialogue between orchestral continuo and solos goes on through...

Adam ASTON & Orkiestra H. Warsa - Tak mało słów [So few words / and so much happiness] Tango z teatru „Nowy Ananas” [Tango from theatre The New Pineapple] (Białostocki-Belski), Syrena-Electro 1932 (Polish) NOTE: Pre-war Warsaw was one of the most entertaining cities in interwar Europe. With its elegant women and abundance of nightclubs and revue theatres, Warsaw deserved its title of 'Paris of the East'. All this disappeared when, in September 1939, the Germans from the west and the Soviets from the east invaded this beautiful capital and,...

Lee Morse with Piano & Guitar - Something In The Night (Weirick, Kresa & Young) Columbia 1932 (USA) NOTE: Lee MORSE (b. 1897 as Lena Taylor in Cove, Union County, Oregon – d. 1954 in Rochester, NY) American pop/jazz and blues singer, composer and guitarist. Morse gained her greatest popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s as a torch singer, known for her strong, deep voice, vocal range and unique yodeling style. She was born the ninth of twelve children into the musically talented family of an itinerant preacher who also ran a small family...

Al Handler & His Orchestra - Pretty Lips, Fox-Trot (Donaldson & Straight) Vocal Chorus by Raymond Covert, Columbia 1926 (USA) NOTE: Al Handler's band was one of the plethora of ephemeral American dance orchestras in the mid-late 1920s. Active in the Chicago area, it gained popularity playing on the radio as well as in fashionable Chicago cafes and restaurants (such as the Davis Hotel and Cafe Alamo). In 1926-27, Handler's orchestra recorded some really nice and hot dance tunes for the Columbia label and disappeared from the music market...

Fred Rich & His Hotel Astor Orchestra - Baltimore, Fox-Trot (Healy, Kahal – McHugh) with Vocal Chorus by Arthur Humby, Columbia 1927 (UK) HOTE: "Baltimore" is a hot American fox-trot written by the great Jimmy McHugh (music) and Dan Healy and Irving Kahal (lyrics) in 1927 and first performed that same year by the Clarence Williams Blue Five. The title, however, refers not to the great seaport of Maryland, but to a ballroom dance called The Baltimore, which was born there. According to the text, it was supposed to become "more popular than...

Edward Jasiński & Ork. Henryka Warsa – Florek, gdzie twój humorek? (Florek, Where’s Your Cheer Gone?) Fokstrot z filmu „Niedorajda” (from the musical comedy „Loser”) (H.Wars – J.Jurandot), Syrena-Electro 1937 (Polish) NOTE: Edward JASIŃSKI (b. 1912 in Warsaw, Poland – d. 1990 in Port Charlotte, USA) - Polish pop singer who, in his youth, sung in a church choir and then attended the well-known Opera Studio in interwar Warsaw run by Polish opera diva Janina Korolewicz-Waydowa. In 1933, Jasiński started his solo career as a performer of...

Jacek Berger & His Astor Hotel Orchestra – There’s Nothing Too Good For My Baby, Fox-Trot from Film „Palmy Days” (Cantor-Davis-Akst) with Vocal Chorus, Melotone 1929 (USA) NOTE: Jack BERGER (born Leonard Berger 1898 in NYC – d. 1940 in NYC) – American pianist & dance bandleader who is largely fogotten now. His first noted is Astor Hotel NY just before 1930, where he replaced the orchestra of Joe Moss (Meyer Davis' unit). Berger's band enjoyed a residency at the Astor until 1936. During this time, he also performed at the Savoy Hotel and...

Orchestre NIMBS (dir. by Jens Warny) - Oh Bayadere! Fox-Trot from Operette La Bayadere (E. Kalman), HMV 1922 (pressed in London) NOTE: Nimbs Orchestre was a danceband led by Danish conductor Jens Warny, performing in the 1920s at the much-visited Nimbs Restaurant in the Tivoli amusement park in Copenhagen. Jens WARNY (1893 - 1979) had a long career as a bandleader from the early 1920s to the 1930s and 1940s. In the 1920s his dance orchestra recorded mainly for HMV under the name Orchestre Nimbs or Warny's Orkester or Jens Warny Jazz...