Roaring Twenties: Ben Pollack Orch.- On With The Dance! 1929

[Jotaemesg]

Lovely music and words indeed

[ErnieHollerhagen]

Clarinet sounds like early BG, still influenced by Chicago-style players like Russell and Teschmaker.

[TCDS75]

Preciosa, amable, recordable, ¡Ese saxofon!................

[bobparis]

The vocal is Ben Pollack, not Scrappy!

[dzheger]

Some energetic jazzy tune, and some smily chorus girls.

[althejazz]

I have been researching for the name Irving Verret and he shows up with Phil Harris and His Orchestra in 1936/37 on four sessions for Vocalion. Among the sides are the very popular 'Woodman, woodman, spare that tree', 'You can tell she comes from Dixie', 'Between the devil and the deep blue sea' and 'The darktown strutters' ball' all of which are available on CD.

[barjonah1]

Thank you so much! I appreciate your kindness. It is very sad that we do not have a nice collection of his music but in a way it does not surprise me. My grandfather was very humble. Never spoke of his talent or success as a jazz musician. He was very special to me and to share his gift my my children, his gr grandchild would be pure joy. Thanks again.

[althejazz]

Great stuff this - the Pollack organisation were tops with Jimmy McPartland, Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden on this side and the vocal is definitely Ben Pollack and the alto at the beginning sounds like Benny Goodman rather than Gil Rodin. In later years the alumni of the Pollack band transmogrified into the Bob Crosby led co-operative band which achieved so much success between 1935 and 1940 and featured the superb Irving Fazola on clarinet.

[barjonah1]

My grandfather knew Ben Pollack and played with Ben, he played the trombone and his name is Irvin Verret, does anyone have any recordings with him on it?

[NiftyNataliePollock]

My name is Pollock too ...the Pollock and Pollock Gossip show loves this music....it is so smooth

[jazz1929]

Most definitely a Goodman solo, but that was Ben Pollack himself on the vocal. Some early Goodman/Pollack came out on ASV Living Era if you can still find it.

[odietarceo]

One of Lambert's best vocals, very natural like! Was that Benny Goodman?

[kportguy1]

This has been one of my most favorite recordings from that period for a long time.

[JCJasion]

Do you have "Bashful Baby", "'Deed I Do", "Buy, Buy, For Baby"? by any chance? Those feature Benny Goodman prominently. It seems that Pollack had a lot of pop material foisted on him by the Victor A&R people, as had Jean Goldkette, on most occasions.

[fuzzbear6240]

240252, If that were true-on my part. I haven't run across much Pollack in the 'wild' so far. Regards, J.

[JCJasion]

Even so, Fuzz, what he and the boys did with the Pop material was exceptionally good hot dance music and well within the Jazz canon!!!

[fuzzbear6240]

JC, Agreed-I'm always on the lookout to add more Pollack to my collection.

Regards, J.

[fuzzbear6240]

240252, Another great one! Thanks Regards, J.

[miffy1950]

WOW! Should have loved to play to piano part ( if I could, hahaha). Such swinging music!!

Great! Thanks for sharing

[barbcard]

I'd love to be sitting on top of that piano. What great vibes, even though it's freezing tonight in D.C.

[kspm01]

"Thanks" to the global warming, till today we have hardly had any Winter day over here (I'm longing for those real olden days seasons...), but I'm afraid this hot selection won't fix that.

[barbcard]

Don't know why my comment posted on your site rather than G's. YT gets more mysterious in its way. But I enjoyed this song as well! And it's still freezing...I'm looking forward to some of that London sunshine when I visit there next week.

[kspm01]

Have a lovely journey then!