Coon Sanders Nighthawks-After You've Gone-1929

[AfreekaLIVE]

SO I SEE...KRACKENS USED THE NAME "COON" THIS AND THAT IN MUSIC AS THEY WORKED TO IMITATE BLACK FOLKS NATURAL ABILITY TO MAKE MUSIC....THIS WHERE KRACKENS IN THE WEST HERE LEARNED TO 'SING AND DANCE'..FROM THOSE THEY CALLED "COONS"...AKA...AFREEKANS...

[preservationhall01]

@AfreekaLIVE Good God~another Afreekan racist. Dumbass, the man's name was Carleton Coon. It was his family name!! You are so quick to jump to your idiotic racist conclusions. The band name was Coon Sanders because it was led by Carleton Coon and Joe Sanders. You say that blacks have a natural ability to make music. Do you think they also have a natural ability to tap dance while eating watermelon?

[at78rpm]

Nice montage. AYG has always been one of my very favorite songs, and CS do a great job on it. I couldn't help but think but that Joe couldn't play this one any more after Carleton died. I wish I could have met Joe, to let him know what a great contribution to music they made.

[bhsisthebest]

Superb arrangement, the whistling is incredible clean and the verse with brass bass is a very nice spot. Also that unusual duet which they usually used :-) Thank you very much for posting! Definitely the must have for all 20's freaks!

[skimdit]

I have it from a very good source that Adolf Hitler liked Bennie Moten's Band.He thought Coon-Sanders sounded too Jewish.

[skimdit]

Dear God I must be possessed by some demon.I like both Bennie Moten and Coon-Sanders ,Bennie Moten sounds the same and so does Coon-Sanders.Of course so does all the C-R-A-P that we have heard since Elvis Presly or is it Presley? He who died on the toilet.

[davidglow3]

Kansas City most popular band might well have been Benny Motens.They were a lot better than the Coon/Sanders and even recorded a lot right through the depression

[preservationhall01]

Can you suggest a good Moten's song that I could try and post that would be representative of their style? I posted this particular Coon/Sanders piece because it typified their music. Motens was KC's favorite but Moten never knew how to promote himself like Carlton Coon. Those Coon/Sanders broadcasts on clear channel WDAF in KC made them a national phenom.

[bostonblakie]

I first heard them on Ray Smith's "Jazz Age" weekly radio show on WGBHFM (NPR Boston) back in the 1970s.

[preservationhall01]

My dad was one of their fans from the 1920s-and used to talk about those WDAF radio shows-I didn't hear their music until 2006.

[HarborGuy]

Although very popular I never really carred for Coon-Sanders - most of their recordings sound about the same. The were very big on early radio a well.....

[preservationhall01]

I think you had to be there "in the 20s" to see and hear the joyous personality of Carlton Coon to know where a lot of the band's popularity originated. When Carlton died, their fans disappeared.

[HarborGuy]

Hard to believe this day and age it was an impacted tooth and blood poisoning that did him in.......One thing survived the term "Night Hawk"