78s - Walking My Baby Back Home - Broadway Syncopators (Madison)

[autumngo1d]

Thank you to all that have put these old songs on here they are what my Mum and Dad used to dance to xxxxx

[gregoryagogo]

This is how this song should sound! Love the saxes on this record!

[2reeler]

Love this old song! Love the label too! I have an earlier tune by the same song writers, called 'Mean to Me' on a vid..sung by Babe Blake. Turk and Alhert also wrote" I'll get By." great tin pan alley songwriters! Thanks for sharing your cool 78!.

[althazarr]

@2reeler Thanks for checking it out and for your great comment!

[bixvenuti]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's Irving Kaufman singing (but as you said, suaveoo, this record is probably played back a tad fast, making him sound a bit more "pinched" than usual). I'd also venture a guess that the band is Lou Gold's. It sounds lot like Gold's other records from 1930 -- right down to the closing piano "chime."

[suaveoo]

I think the vocalist is actually Irving Kaufman - albeit the speed is just a tad fast; it was probably recorded at 76.5 rpm, so Irving's voice has a higher timbre than we're used to hearing (Grey Gull products can range from 76.5 to as high as 83rpm! There is no real standard speed, so a variable speed turntable is probably the way to go to play them accurately). Nice side !!

[gregoryagogo]

@suaveoo Vocalist sounds familiar...

[gregoryagogo]

@suaveoo The clue is in the words "while" and "smile!!"

[dewey70]

Very nice tune. Your Madisons are a lot lighter colored than mine!

[althazarr]

Some of the Perfect records I have are like that too. I've got about 5 different shades of them, from bright orange to dark brown.

[gregoryagogo]

@althazarr Is this record cardboard? 

[althazarr]

@gregoryagogo No, it's just a brown shellac Madison. :-)

[swingyoucats]

I really do not think that the singer is Cliff Edwards -- the "voice of Jiminy Cricket"! Compare this to the authentic Edwards recordings on YouTube, please. And this record is not mentioned in Larry Kiner's exhaustive CE discography. Sorry!

[althazarr]

Okay, can you please let me know who it is, so I can correct the information.

[swingyoucats]

I don't mean to seem perverse here, but if I knew I would have said so originally. All I know is that it isn't Edwards, and that dance-band records on Madison / Radiex / Greay Gull are not well documented. Other sessions used Irving Kaufman, Frank Luther, Jerry White, Arthur Fields, Jack Kaufman, Tony Lombardi. When in doubt with under-documented 78s, be cautious in assuming the soloists or players are famous unless their identity audibly jumps out at you. Cheers!

[althazarr]

No, that's quite alright.I had a hard time trying to find any info. What I got came from a fellow in England. I'll revise what I do have and try to find out more.

Thanks

[harryoakley]

I don't know where to begin really... My best suggestion is that you read about Trumbauer on internet - there is plenty about him! But very briefly, he wasn't a "polka king" (he never played a polka in his life!) but a very famous jazz saxophonist during the 1920's and 30's; best known for his 1920's recordings for OKeh under his own name and his associations with Paul Whiteman and Bix Beiderbecke.

[althazarr]

Okay, thank you for the information.

[RaymondTVinyl]

I just love this Althazarr!! What a beautiful label!! Is this from the 20's??

[althazarr]

Hey Raymond,

The song was written in 1930, and I believe this one was recorded that same year or the year after.

[harryoakley]

Frank Trumbauer "polka king"?? Where did you get that nonsense? And Sanella on cello?? Come on!

Nice version of "Walking My Baby" though.

[althazarr]

Okay, will you please fill me in on the proper information if that is incorrect. I would like to know anything you have to offer to fix the mistakes I've made in my statements.

[genia106]

My Dear Lloyd,

I love this orchestra and the orchestration.

It is so sophisticated, I thought it was a British Band. They were wonderful! Love the piano...Merci for sharing. :-)

[GollyBill]

Thanx friend, just watched a Harold Lloyd movie on another channel, sounds like the same musicians, great stuff pal. always classic sounds.

[althazarr]

It probably is, with all the studio musicians that were churning out music during that time. What channel did you find the movie on? I'd like to watch some of those classics too.

[CurzonRoad]

Very, very nice sounds! Thank you, Lloyd! Doug --

[althazarr]

Thank you Doug! Early jazz music is my favorite. :-)

[UkesterBrown]

Gee ya mean Michael Bublee didn't write it- hahahahahaha All the younger generation seems to think he writes all the "new" music they hear him sing.

[althazarr]

As great of an artist as Buble' is, I don't think he's written any songs. He does all the old standards and the new original songs are written for him by other songwriters.

[oldedrum]

(Funny how you associate a title w/ something else!)... I remember this song from an old 'Columbo' episode.

---It was a done in a modern version though.

---Thanx 'althazarr' :o)

[althazarr]

I do that all the time. So this was on Columbo? I'd really like to see that episode.

[oldedrum]

'Yes. The woman was guilty of murder, and of course 'Columbo' has to figure it out!---She was a 'washed-up' or should I say, 'has-been' actress

(w/ a 'screw' loose!---Ha ha!)

She would sit in front of her old movies watching herself in the home theater. And I remember that was the song. I think maybe even the title of her movie(?)...It was a newer version of that song also.'

[roybo1930]

This is just TOO NEET! These old Madison, Radiex, Gray Gull Records Have lot`s of Great, Great Songs on them. Thank You So Much For Shairing This With Me.

[althazarr]

They sure do. I like all of those labels. Thanks for the comment.

[parlophonman]

Nice record !

I think this song was original written for Maurice Chevalier, who recorded this song in 1930 too.

[althazarr]

Yes, I do believe you're right. Thanks for the info.