Garden Dancing Palace Orch. - Rose Room, 1928

The Garden Dancing Palace Orchestra, Dir. Lillian Frederic (Jackie Souder & His Orchestra, Vocals by Walton McKinney?) - Rose Room (Art Hickman/ Harry Williams), Columbia 1927

NOTE: In 1920s, The Garden Dancing Palace Orchestra led by Miss Lilian Frederic, performed in Spokane,WA, in the town's finest dancehall, the Garden Dancing Palace. In September 1927, Columbia's crew arrived in Spokane and cut a few songs -- Night Time In Picardy, Sunshine / Im Afraid You Sing That Song To Somebody Else, and Rose Room.. The recording session was held on the balcony of the Garden Dancing Palace Palace in West 333 Sprague Street. Although the band name on the label reads as the Garden Dancing Palace Orchestra, some collectors and historians feel it is a Seattle-based group led by trombonist Jackie Souder. Souder's orchestra was a popular Northwest group with a residency in the mid-1920s at Seattle's Olympic Hotel, and vocalists Bing Crosby and Al Rinker both worked with the band before heading to Los Angeles for fame and fortune with Paul Whiteman.

„Rose Room" was composed by West Coast bandleader Art Hickman and presented in an instrumental version in 1917 while performing in the Rose Room at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. In 1919 Columbia Records brought the band to New York to record, and they waxed "Rose Room" in a marathon session that September. The next year their recording was a bestseller for Columbia Records. In June 1918 "Rose Room" was recorded for Victor by Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra. "Rose Room" was an unusual tune for its time when ragtime's popularity was fading in favor of the 32-bar song and the 12-bar blues. Composer Alec Wilder, in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, calls it "a good, loose, natural song, definitely ahead of its time". Vocal recordings of "Rose Room" are few and far between, with good reason. The lyrics are very flowery, almost an early 20th period piece. No doubt the lyrics were tacked on by a worrisome publisher knowing that instrumental sheet music sold less than songs. The title is never even mentioned in the tune, and the lyrics sole purpose is to relate how wonderful it is to be "in sunny roseland", where „flowers sway and breezes blow".

Another excellent rendition of that song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odT1m131sJo

Attention: there's a mistake in the tiltle page: the date of the recording should be 1927

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[dzheger]

Great bouncy fox and nice roses, rose ladies and rose rooms. Love the Pre-Raphaelite lady and rose at 1:28.

[240252]

Yes, lonely ladies, water, roses...sometimes also mist in the air or a medieval knight approaching in the background... the favourite motifs of the PreRafaelites' art of painting... In spite of their not the best taste, I like their mysterious gardens... They are so British!

[Globe2219]

Greetings! McKinney did a vocal with this or a similar-sounding outfit called "When Erastus Plays His Old Kazoo"...Do you have that?

[oiljass]

Thanks, great to hear the verse

[victorbrunswick]

One of my favorite tunes from the era.

I looked up the site of the Garden Dancing Palace on Google Earth. The building apparently still stands but it now serves as a parking structure.

[TCDS75]

Delicioa ..............................­.......

[nwcw2001]

I love to hear music performed by my Grandfather and I love see it on YouTube for others to hear!

[AIKevorkian]

Spokane forever!

[BardCoennius]

Art Hickman is sometimes called the "Father of the Modern Big Band;" he was certainly the first to use saxophones in jazz and ragtime bands.

[EdisonSquirrel]

Excellent rendition of this classic!

[youarpa]

Very Beautiful Photos!!!

[roybo1930]

I Have Never Heard This Awsome Version Of This Beautiful Song, Until Now, WHAT A TREET!!!! Thank You So Much For Posting.