Jack Payne Fest! - 'The Moochie' Jack Payne & His BBC Dance Orchestra.1930.

'The Moochie' (Sielle & Mills) .
TEMPO 32,
'recorded under the personal supervision of Robert Sielle & Annette Mills'.
Jack Payne & His BBC Dance Orchestra.
Vocal chorus by Jack Payne.

Recorded London, September 26th 1930.

For 'jackpaynefan' who is 'doing his bit for Jack'.

I used a medium tone needle for this upload , does it sound okay I wonder?. This ranks equal in my humble opinion to the version recorded by Roy Fox on one of his earliest Decca's.

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• 1930.

[scoterpool]

There is definitely something abstract about this song, it's like one of those weird Raymond Scott numbers Sydney Lipton recorded and yes I could see it forming part of those tree-house dancers programme (some will wonder what this is all about!). Anyone heard "River stay 'way from my door" by Jack Payne, IT IS FAB!

[85scampi]

Dinner music for a pack of large hungry cannibals this tune!!!!.

[mic33george]

Brilliant rythmic 1930 big sound Payne!Medium tone is good.Dont you think the sound is enhanced by the lovely wooden cabinets of these grams.Wouldnt it be good to find a gram that was turned into a drinks cabinet or something,and put a modern plastic hi fi in,hiding 21st century electrics and enriching sound quality?

[85scampi]

Well, I don't know. One cannot live entirely in the past you know. Having instant access to modern sound reproduction is one of the few blessings of modern electrics.

[jackpaynefan]

Sounds fine! lovely rhythmic tune . Love Jack's dramatic  vocal.

[85scampi]

The Roy Fox version has a vocal by Kenneth Allen and was the second recording session for Foxes band on October 31st 1930 - Jack got there first!.

[paulcirc]

Have you given any details concerning your radiogram and your gramophone? I'd really like to know more about them. The radiogram, especially, has a beautiful tone and the sound is quite detailed. It always amazes me when I hear electronics from that era - little sound above 5000 hrz, but they really catch the beat. Have you ever heard an HMV reentrant in person? I've heard an Orthophonic Victrola - amazing what the acoustic machines achieved, as well.

[mic33george]

Yes,but FAR better if something can be hidden in say a 1930 gramophone cabinet turned into a cupboard years ago,allowing it to be still used for its intended use in an updated way?Im all for living entirely in the past if things can be hidden away!

[85scampi]

It should remind you of being up a tree dancing perhaps??!!.

[scoterpool]

Those jungle drums are something else. Jack Payne's flourishing sound is the new depression buster of the 21st century. It did it in 1929 so 80 years later I think he is going to brighten up many lives again! Yahoo! We're at the front line!