Harry Reser - When I take my sugar to tea

These old cardboard Hit of the Week records are quite easy to find. Although they can be a bit noisy, they contain some great dance band music. Like here Harry Reser's Radio Band. I absolutely love the string of solos! Listen to the growling trumpet and bass sax!

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[CrisVangel]

Love it!! Excellent post. I just posted "Anchors Aweigh" by Phil Spitalny. HOW records are really cool, and not that many exist because they were only made for a precious few years!

[wininboy]

I'll tell you a story; I was at a fleamarket and a merchant threw a huge and heavy box of 78's on the pavement. I heard the breaking of the records. OUCH!! When I thumbed through them, they were all wonderful old French jazz and musette (Django, Viseur, ...) My heart had broken, along with those records.

The only ones I salvaged from that batch were a whole bunch of WOW's. They seem to survive in much larger quantities than you'd expect, partly due to their being unbreakable. 8^))

[wininboy]

Erm, they are WOW sometimes, but I did mean HOW.

[samjhatfield]

Looks a lot like a 101. Not a 102 cause clearly has the "flatter" soundbox for the mica diaghphragm. I got 3. And a 130 which is nice!

[wininboy]

It's a model 101 alright. 130's are great! The no. 5 sound-box is much more versatile too.

[jaredgetsacookie]

did this ever come out on something besides cardboard?

[wininboy]

It sure did; on vinyl and, by this time, also on cd plastic.

[recordnerd21]

Wow I just realized that I posted literally three comments at different times, unaware of the previous. My memory must be fading. Oh dear...sorry folks.

[mdmphd]

Sounds fantastic on this player - Thanks for posting!!

[recordnerd21]

@wininboy how could anyone throw out those wonderful records? i would be crushed to hear that sound. good thing some of them survived.

that song really brings me back...

[recordnerd21]

the brings me back to when i was a kid listening to the radio after school got out. thanks

[recordnerd21]

when i was a kid i heard this song on the radio all the time. thank you very much for creating this video. this really brings me back.

[fromthesidelines]

Yes, this is 1147(D), recorded on April 28, 1931, and released the first week of June. Frank Luther is indeed the uncredited vocalist. Some sources say it's Cornell Smelser on accordion [since he participated on several "HOTW" sides at the time].

[legOldtimer]

Hi, can you tell us the number of the record, so that we can look it up in the Hit Of The Week database?

Thanks for posting! Greetzz.. Ben

[jnorman111]

(J.M.J.)

This is not the Harry Reser Radio Band release of the June 4, 1931 HOW that I was commenting on in 2 earlier post, sorry, this has accordian and bass sax and I was thinking about the other HOW release.

[jnorman111]

(J.M.J.)

No accordian on here. It may be Cornell Smeiser on the vocal, or Frank Luther? This may be a indication that Harry Reser knew, in this 1931 release, that "swing" music was the coming thing, as he plays guitar instead of his usual banjo, so it swings better, instead of clump, clump. Was ahead of its time.

[jnorman111]

(J.M.J.)

That is a tuba, not Rollini, but Bob Efros is the muted trumpet hot solo.