Appropriate to Labor Day weekend, this lovely song with a Smith Ballew vocal is the theme song of my friend Matt Tolentino and is also the title of his first 14 track Singapore Slingers CD! I'll be going to hear Matt in an end of summer concert in Dallas on Tuesday September 7 and hope to bring back some wonderful videos from that trip.
This Meyer Davis Swanee Syncopators with its Smith Ballew vocal on Brunswick 4134 is the only Meyer Davis Brunswick which has an identical counterpart on Duophone 4038 as the Blue Room Orchestra which was pressed for release in the UK.
When this record started playing, the mice came out of the wall and started dancing around--and Grandpappy was there too, still on his crutches.. That was fine, but when they headed for the Victrola, that was enough--I had to get the broom! One "It's Got Me Again" is enough!
This 1927 recording, with Lewis James vocal, is included in a recent CD entitled Nat Shilkret and His Victor Orchestra: The Hot Dance Sides 1926 to 1930, and deservedly so!
In a Pretty Little City--but it's not Chicago, the home of this group, because in 1923 or any other time Chicago was neither little nor pretty. More than likely it's Richmond, Indiana, home of the Starr Piano Company and the site of this November, 1923 Gennett recording, the last of ten sides first cut in July.
It's Wednesday Over Here. At least that's what Jack Kaufman informs those of us who are challenged when it comes to calculating what time it is on the other side of the world when it's daytime over here. This is the ninth of ten sides this Chicago group made between July and November 1923.
This is the first of ten Duophone recordings Bill Wirges made in 1928, nine in September and one in October, all under the pseudonym The Melody Makers. I'm crediting Al Bernard with the vocal, but if someone has info otherwise, let me know. It's a real sweetheart!
The "Wabash Dance Orch." pseudo carries a lot of weight: Red Nichols, Manny Klein, Miff Mole and an uncredited vocal in this September, 1928 Duophone recording headed for the UK.
...can hardly describe it! Louis Armstrong's "galloping" solo, then Hawkins's solo that starts out straight as an arrow then goes off on a tangent! This alternate take seems to be hotter on red wax!
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