Golden Gate Orchestra - The Flapper Wife (1925)

The Golden Gate Orchestra was a recording pseudonym for the California Ramblers.

A mis-named band, most of the personnel were from Ohio. The name came from one of the venues where they had played, the Ramblers Inn in Pelham, NY.

The California Ramblers, were one of the hottest dance bands of the 1920s and consistently turned out records of the highest musical quality. They were is such demand, that many labels wanted to record them, and so the Ramblers recorded under many different names including 'The Goofus Five', 'The Five Birmingham Babies', 'The University Six', and the 'Varsity Eight' (with occasional slight personnel changes) All of their recording were spectacular, but it should be mentioned that nobody mastered the bass sax like Rollini. his playing remains an absolute joy to this day.

The band's career started when two of their members called on band agent Ed Kirkeby to find them work in New York City.

Banjoist Ray Kitchenman was the band's first leader. Kirkeby found work for them as accompaniment for a singer named Eva Shirley, but they broke up due to internal dissensions.

Violinist Arthur Hand had a band at that time, which included the Dorsey Brothers; Loring "Red" Nichols, and Adrian Rollini. Kitchenman talked Hand into giving him the band, and then again asked Kirkeby to find work. Kirkeby first booked them into Shanley's Dance Hall on New York's famed Broadway for a tryout. Shortly thereafter, the band took up residence at the 'Post Lodge' in Pelham Bay Park, Westchester county, -a suburb of New York City. The lodge was then renamed The California Rambler's Inn.

The group's instant success was to last for over a decade. They recorded prolifically under the California Rambler's name for Columbia Records, and under numerous pseudonyms for other labels. Kirkeby has told interviewers that the band waived all royalties with Columbia for the right to record for other companies under differing names. Their records appeared on most of the independent labels active in the mid-1920s including: Edison, Harmony, Silvertone, Pennington, and Broadway. For the Pathe' Actuelle label, they were the 'Palace Garden Orchestra.' On the Perfect label, they were billed as 'Meyer's Dance Band.' Grafton Records called them the 'Windsor Orchestra'." Some other names they used were "The Golden Gate Orchestra", "Goldie's Syncopators", "Ted Wallace and his Orchestra" and more. During the month of April 1926 - to cite just one example - they recorded over a dozen tunes using several pseudonyms on ten different labels, making more records than any band in New York.


Golden Gate Orchestra - The Flapper Wife (1925)

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[goldenmoviepalace]

Wonderful! That band is really going to town! Great group! Terrific tune.

[heinbanjo12]

I support that. Hein

[idasynco]

I love all the horn bent notes and banjo in the background driving the rhythm of this hot 20's tune...the flapper wife...gotta love it!