78s - Walking My Baby Back Home - Broadway Syncopators (Madison)

Andy Sannella blew clarinet in the band of saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer, then recorded for the Davis label with the Alpineers, a progressive polka collaboration first with the virtuoso accordion man Joe Biviano and then with the equally brilliant pianist Frank Banta. There were also credits with artists such as Bing Crosby and Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards. Cliff Edwards & His Hot Combination featured Sannella on alto sax and cello, jamming alongside violinist Joe Venuti and guitarist Eddie Lang. The leader, best-known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket, really would have to wish upon a star to come up with such a great band. But listeners checking out the legend of Sannella will inevitably be drawn to the fascinating scrabble of the Madison recordings. Dozens of different band names, hundreds of different recordings, five different series of catalog numbers, and all of it the work of Sannella and his buddy Mike Mosiello. The Musical Masters Orchestra was actually just a trio, but the Melody Trio made up for it by having six members. Whatever number of players were in the group on a particular day, they claimed to have come from everywhere, except of course when the records were released without any band name on them. There were the Atlanta Syncopators, the Broadway Syncopators, the Carlton Dance Club, the Frisco Players, the Hollywood Dance Orchestra, the Levee Syncopators, the Louisville Master Players, the Marlborough Dance Orchestra, the Nashville Jazzers, the Newport Society Orchestra, the Oceanic Dance Orchestra, and the St. Louis Serenaders. The madmen behind this musical factory never seemed to run out of ideas for band names, some of which would be useable half a century or more later.

"Walkin' My Baby Back Home" is a popular song written in 1930 by Roy Turk (lyrics) and Fred E. Ahlert (music). It first charted in 1931 with versions by Nick Lucas (#8), Ted Weems (also #8), The Charleston Chasers (#15), and Lee Morse (#18).
A recording made by Jo Stafford on November 9, 1945, was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 20049, and on her album, Songs by Jo Stafford (catalog number B-D23).
Harry Richman recorded the song on November 4, 1947. This version was released by Decca Records as catalog number 24391.
A major hit version of it was recorded by Nat King Cole, on September 4, 1951 and released by Capitol Records as catalog number 2130. It went to #8 in 1952. The song also charted in 1952 at # 4 in a version recorded in February 1952 by Johnnie Ray, released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39750, and was the title song from the 1953 film starring Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy Hackett, and Scatman Crothers. In the film the song was performed by Donald O'Connor

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[2reeler]

Love this old song! Love the label too! I have an earlier tune by the same song writers, called 'Mean to Me' on a vid..sung by Babe Blake. Turk and Alhert also wrote" I'll get By." great tin pan alley songwriters! Thanks for sharing your cool 78!.

[althazarr]

@2reeler Thanks for checking it out and for your great comment!

[dewey70]

Very nice tune. Your Madisons are a lot lighter colored than mine!

[althazarr]

Some of the Perfect records I have are like that too. I've got about 5 different shades of them, from bright orange to dark brown.

[gregoryagogo]

@althazarr Is this record cardboard?

[althazarr]

@gregoryagogo No, it's just a brown shellac Madison. :-)

[autumngo1d]

Thank you to all that have put these old songs on here they are what my Mum and Dad used to dance to xxxxx

[gregoryagogo]

@suaveoo The clue is in the words "while" and "smile!!"

[gregoryagogo]

@suaveoo Vocalist sounds familiar...

[gregoryagogo]

This is how this song should sound! Love the saxes on this record!

[bixvenuti]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's Irving Kaufman singing (but as you said, suaveoo, this record is probably played back a tad fast, making him sound a bit more "pinched" than usual). I'd also venture a guess that the band is Lou Gold's. It sounds lot like Gold's other records from 1930 -- right down to the closing piano "chime."

[suaveoo]

I think the vocalist is actually Irving Kaufman - albeit the speed is just a tad fast; it was probably recorded at 76.5 rpm, so Irving's voice has a higher timbre than we're used to hearing (Grey Gull products can range from 76.5 to as high as 83rpm! There is no real standard speed, so a variable speed turntable is probably the way to go to play them accurately). Nice side !!