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Snobs quartet sings small fry
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The Big Show --1936
THE FIVE JONES BOYS
Originally from Carbondale, Illinois, they came to L.A. in the mid 30s. The lead tenor was Jimmy Springs; ...
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The Big Show --1936
THE FIVE JONES BOYS
Originally from Carbondale, Illinois, they came to L.A. in the mid 30s. The lead tenor was Jimmy Springs; the others were William Bartley, Herman Wood, Louis Wood, and Charles Hopkins.
Films: Can This Be Dixie (1936) The Big Show (1936) - with Gene Autry ("The Lady Known As Lulu")
Hollywood Party (1937) ("Chinatown, My Chinatown")
http://home.att.net/~marvy42/Redcaps/...
http://home.att.net/~marvy42/index.html A great site for information
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Ambrose remained popular all the way through the 1930s, and was at the zenith of his career around 1939. Swing music had swept over from the US to ...
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Ambrose remained popular all the way through the 1930s, and was at the zenith of his career around 1939. Swing music had swept over from the US to the UK, and Ambrose was among the orchestras who could play it best. His arrangements were out of this world, the precision of the band left you speechless, and his female singer, US born Evelyn Dall had her audience twisted around her little finger.
Ambrose had been with Decca since 1934, and unfortunately, the recordings produced by this company from 1934-1937 were notorious for lacking clarity. In 1937, finally, Decca invested in new equipment, and recording fidelity improved dramatically, almost to the point of hifi. However, their new disc recorders were extremely tricky to operate; overloading of the cutter head at hot sections of the recording was common, leading to terrible distortions. Interestingly, Decca pressed and circulated many of such recordings, most likely since recording time was precious, more than 2 wax masters should not be wasted and also hoping that their audience might not really hear the overloaded sections due to the inherent weaknesses of the playback equipment of the time. So if you hear some of these overloads in this recording you know where they came from.
Enjoy this wonderful tune written by Johnny Mercer and featured in the film "Going Places". By the way, drummers please listen to how a cymbal and high hat sounded in the late 1930s!
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Excerpts taken from the 2011 Scott Joplin, Traditional Jazz Tribute Concert at St. Michael's Cemetery, Elmhurst, Queens, New York.
Featuring:
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Excerpts taken from the 2011 Scott Joplin, Traditional Jazz Tribute Concert at St. Michael's Cemetery, Elmhurst, Queens, New York.
Featuring:
The Canary Cottage Orchestra: Dan Levinson Arrangers and C- Melody Saxophone and Clarinet, Alan Grubner - Violin, Harvy Tibbs - Trombone, Conal Fowkes- Piano, John Gill- Banjo (and vocals), Kevin Dorn- Drums & Molly Ryan-Vocals.
The Victrolian Vaudeville Barber Shop Quartette: Scott Brannon- Lead, Paul Santino- Bass, Neal Siegal- Baritone,Bob Kelly -Tenor
Including: Steppin' Around, Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland, Turn Off Your Light Mr. Moonman, Wait Till The Sun Shines Nelly, Apple Blossom Time.
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Victor 20140 - Recorded 8/16/1926 NYC New York - The Revelers (Vocal group) Ed Smalle (instrumentalist: piano) Franklyn Baur (vocalist: tenor vocal...
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Victor 20140 - Recorded 8/16/1926 NYC New York - The Revelers (Vocal group) Ed Smalle (instrumentalist: piano) Franklyn Baur (vocalist: tenor vocal) Lewis James (vocalist: tenor vocal) Elliott Shaw (vocalist: baritone vocal) Wilfred Glenn (vocalist: bass vocal).
"Breezin' along (with the breeze)" Words & Music By Haven Gillespie (lyricist) Seymour Simons (composer) Richard A. Whiting (composer) In 1926.
Vintage Car Automobile, Most Circa 1920's Slideshow.
The Revelers were an American quintet (four close harmony singers and a pianist) popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Revelers' recordings of "Dinah", "Old Man River", "Valencia", "Baby Face", "Blue Room", "The Birth of the Blues", "When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba", and many more, became popular in the United States and then Europe in the late 1920s.
All of the members had recorded individually or in various combinations, and formed a group in 1925. The original Revelers were tenors Franklyn Baur and Lewis James, baritone Elliot Shaw, bass Wilfred Glenn, and pianist Ed Smalle. Smalle was replaced by Frank Black in 1926. The group (with Black at the piano) appeared in a short movie musical, The Revelers (1927), filmed in the sound-on-disc Vitaphone process. This one-reel short film, recently restored by "The Vitaphone Project," shows the group performing "Mine", "Dinah", and "No Foolin'". A second short, filmed the same day with another three songs, awaits restoration.
Baur was replaced by Frank Luther and then James Melton (later a Metropolitan Opera tenor).
The Revelers were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Julien
Glad to see you are carrying on the tradition on your channel!
Greetings from California!
RagJazzMonkey Tom