Tal Henry's North Carolinians - Some Little Someone (1928)

Tal Henry (July 10,1898 - Aug.17,1967) was an American orchestra director in the swing and big band eras.

Henry was born Talmadge Allen Henry in Maysville, Georgia.At the age of 7, he started playing the violin. He left Maysville in 1914 to attend Shenandoah Conservatory of Music located in Dayton, Virginia. The school moved to Winchester, Virginia and has become a University. After his education there, Henry went to Elon College, near Burlington, North Carolina, where he taught violin.

In early 1919, he began playing with the Frank Hood band and made his home in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1924 Tal Henry took over the band and formed the Tal Henry and His North Carolinians Orchestra where he played in the O'Henry Hotel in Greensboro. The orchestra moved north to Washington, Pennsylvania playing the dances and events at the Washington Hotel. The orchestra had a contract to perform at the formal opening of the Hotel Charlotte when the hotel opened in 1924. The orchestra moved on to the Mound Club in St. Louis, Missouri where he signed with William Foor-Robinson Orchestra Corporation of America. The Tal Henry orchestra went on to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Ed Fishman introduced Bob Hope and George Burns to Tal Henry and His North Carolinians and booked them into the Stanley in Pittsburgh. They traveled vaudeville for sixteen weeks, going from town to town playing wherever the act could find work.

Tal Henry signed with the Orchestra Corporation of America, and so the orchestra was under contract with the Hotel New Yorker, Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tenn., and the Baker Hotels all in the cities of the state of Texas. There was always a place for the orchestra in New York City.

The Dorsey Brothers, Tommy and Jimmy, practiced with the orchestra when they were in the city. By the middle of the 1920s, the orchestra was nationally known as a famous band with the Victor Records, Bluebird and Sunrise records. In 1928, the orchestra produced two Warner Bros. and Victor Record Company's Vitaphone films. These Vitaphone shorts were used in theatres, radio, photoplay theatres, Loew's Palace and other standard movie theatres. Vitaphone was the first sound film technology to gain widespread acceptance in the early Swing Era offering audiences the closest approximation possible to a live performance. The orchestra played many of the movie theatres in the orchestra pit, on stage, in hotel ballrooms, and any other venues where the orchestra performed.

Tal Henry and His North Carolinians Personnel: Tal Henry - Violin & Leader Walter brown - Carinet, Alto Saxophone & Vocalist Doc Dibert - Cornet Francis Ellsworth - Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone Walter Fellman - Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone Charlie Hudson - Drums Paul Kenestrick - Piano Chet Lincoln - Trombone Harold Madsen - Vocalist Gordon Martin - Cornet Ivan Morris - Banjo, Trumpet, Vocalist Chester Shaw - Brass Bass, Vocalist Taz Wolter - Vocalist - Vern Yocum also played with the Tal Henry Orchestra.


Tal Henry's North Carolinians, Walter Brown, Ivan Morris and Walter Fellman vocal - Some Little Someone (1928)

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[HarborGuy]

Real nice recording.