California Ramblers -The Pay Off - Roaring 20's Victrola

I don't know exactly what the Pay-Off was for--maybe it's best I don't know. I didn't even know the California Ramblers had made this record until 1998 when I bought R. Crumb's two CD set That's What I Call Sweet Music--it is track #20 and it zoomed to the top of my "Must Have" list the first time I heard it. It was an amazingly hard record to get. It never appeared on auction lists or on eBay for the longest time. Every once in awhile I'd just at random pull up "California Ramblers" and see if it was there--sometime around last June it was listed with already six bids on it at about $35. I put in a bid with about four days to go knowing for sure I'd win it. Not only did I not win it, it went for nearly $200! About a month later, just at random I found another one on the same auction I'd won another record from--it had no bids and about five days to go. It got only two bids and I won it for $24.37!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• California
• Ramblers
• Varsity
• Eight
• Adrian
• Rollini
• The
• Pay
• Off
• Roaring
• 20's
• Victrola

[acfinney1]

I hear Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey, and I think Tommy Dorsey. I loved Red's playing better than Bix, but I am in the minority. Bix was better trained, but Bix has soul.

[VictrolaJazz]

@acfinney1 Thanks!  Yes, they're all present and accounted for! A marvelous recording!

[MultiMartiniman]

WOW! Your copy sounds amazing on your machine!!

Mine sounds good on my little Ortho!

But love yours!!

[VictrolaJazz]

@MultiMartiniman Thanks! I was a long time getting that record! It's playing on my 8-30 (Credenza) in this video.

[TuberOnTheLoose]

I've seen here on youtube the introduction to this song that ends at about the 23 second mark being used as the introduction to some Betty Boop cartoons with her adding a few "boop be doops" in it. Not from this recording, but from this song.

[VictrolaJazz]

@TuberOnTheLoose So many people associate this music with the old cartoons because in fact the same orchestras furnished the music for them! And it's perfectly fitting, too!

[VictrolaJazz]

@TuberOnTheLoose There are so many relatives of Jazz Age musicians out there and it's so nice to hear from them! Give her my best regards!

[TuberOnTheLoose]

@VictrolaJazz - I am a facebook friend of one of the granddaughters of Jazz Age drummer Chauncey Morehouse. I met her through the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival.

[VictrolaJazz]

@GennettRecords Thanks for letting me know!  I'll change the credit.

[GennettRecords]

This was recorded on Feb 10 1928 so that can't be Rollini on bass sax as he was with Fred Elizalde in London at that time playing at The Savoy Hotel. I agree it does sound like him but according to Rust it's Spencer Clark.

Just thought you should know.....