Lido Lady, Try Again Tomorrow - The Piccadilly Revels Band, Columbia 4250, 1926

Recorded inside Wigmore Hall, London - this record really captures the ballroom sound of an orchestra playing in such a large place! This was the Revels' first recorded side for Columbia

THE PICCADILLY REVELS BAND. Lineup most likely:

Ray Starita, cl, ts, v, dir: Freddy Pitt, Andy Richardson, t / Bill Hall, tb / Ernie Smith, cl, as, o / Phil Cardew, cl, as / Eric Siday, vn / Donald Thorne, p / Jack Hill, bj, g / Clem Lawton, bb / Rudy Starita, d, x.

Wigmore Hall, London, December 1926

Category:

Music

Tags:

• hot jazz
• 1920s
• wigmore hall
• lido lady
• al starita
• ray starita

[lindyhoppers]

lovely side Jonathan!!

[mojoman4147]

@lindyhoppers many thanks!

[iainr222]

A lively piece enhanced for me by the NATURAL slight echo effect of its recording in presumably a largely empty hall !

[mojoman4147]

@iainr222 it does have a certain richness to it, I can only imagine what it sounded like for the people recording it!

[santopec]

Sounds very "live" in my ears, (I see the hall when I close my eyes); I like it!! 

[syncopeter]

I'm not too fond of the echoing sound. I've got two tracks by Donald Thorne (or North as he was called also) playing compositions of his own. They are not in my 'collection' of transfers, but I'll try to het 'm uploaded a.s.a.p.

[iainr222]

"Lido Lady" was a Rogers and Hart smash hit in the West End in 1926 so the linking of the show with the song title on the label makes perfect commercial sense !

[VictrolaJazz]

You're exactly right about that sound! It seems like everything that can go wrong with YouTube is in full force today! Virtually nothing plays easily!