Stomp Six (featuring Muggsy Spanier) - Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me (1925)

"Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me" recorded by the Stomp Six, circa July 1925. Originally released on Autograph 626. Muggsy Spanier (cnt); Guy Carey (tbn); Volly de Faut (cl); Mel Stitzel (p); Joe Gish (tu); Ben Pollack (d).

In the March 15, 1944 issue of Downbeat, columnist George Hoefer Jr. notes a remarkable story - Muggsy Spanier walked into the Session Record Shop while a copy of Autograph 626 was on the turntable. Spanier promptly gave Session owner Phil Featheringill the date and personnel for the recording (though he added Marvin Saxbe on guitar, couldn't remember Joe Gish's last name, and put the date in 1924). Featheringill included this record in his series of classic jazz reissues.

Autograph Records, which originally recorded these sides, was a Chicago-based record company owned by Orlando Marsh, an electrical engineer who patented a number of devices related to electrical recording. He also developed his own rather primitive electric recording system, which he used for his own recordings as early as 1923. Marsh's system is heard on this recording. Autograph Records went out of business around 1926 or 1927.

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• Muggsy
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• Jazz
• 1925