The Tunesters-Ain't She Sweet-1926

[jellywhipper]

I'm from Maine and I have a copy of this. It's on the PERSONAL label - Number 99-P(a Columbia offshoot, apparently for small issues such as college bands, etc.) is this by a Boston area college band?

[mikedaley1968]

Hard to believe it's an amateur band. Also strange is that the vocal group really seems to be a knockoff of the Rhythm Boys, who weren't recording until 1927.

[RUSSVJM]

I discovered this late.. The Tunsters was a band from Mass. Institute of Technology. The vocalist was Dick Whiting (not the songwriter) who became a TV actor in the 1980s

[jazzgirl1920s]

I don't have the original 78. Another collector who has it send me a cassette of it about 20 years ago.

[victrolaman]

Thanks Jazz Girl. Since this College Band performed in the Boston area, I was just curious as to where the Collector was from, although the record over the years could certainly have found its way to another part of the country.

[jazzgirl1920s]

The collector who had the recording was from Arizona and I remembered he didn't have the original 78 but had it on a British issued lp.

[victrolaman]

Pretty incredible, I just posted the A side of this great record done by this great College Jazz band from the mid to late 1920's on my Youtube site. I found this record stuffed away in the back of a Sonora Phonograph I bought in a Boston area Town about 2 years ago. The Tunesters were a Band made up of Harvard and area College Students, that obviously traveled to New York City and cut this "Personal" record back in 1927 at the Columbia Studios. Where did you find your copy of the record?

[EdisonSquirrel]

It's probably just an illusion, but In my mind's eye, a band like the Tunesters has an immediacy or tangible edge not found among the better known dance bands.