Phil Baxter Orchestra - I Ain't Got No Gal Now
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Hey, that's my great-uncle-Phil on piano & vocals. Wow. Thanks for digging this up & posting it. I remember sitting on his lap as a child, him trying to teach me jazz, playing these tunes plus more of his - I'm going to play this for my mom over Thanksgiving. Uncle Phil was her father's brother. She's 78 now.
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loose and rambling.....love it! thank you.
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one of my favourite records - and it is certainly a regional style - the much less well recorded Harris Brother's Texans (Gut Bucket Shuffle) share in this style - great trumpet solo, good clarinet, love the ambiance this 78 has
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They are one of a group of Dallas territory bands recorded just before the great depression took a huge toll on sales. Many of the Victor 40000s and 23000s sold
only 500 copies at most. The 40000s were designated as Country records and the 23000s were race records which added to their extreme rarity.
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@harryoakley Wow! That's one impressive library! You are more than a serious collector! Thanks for the information.
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The Red Hot Jazz track is the same, not restored.
I seem to hear echoes of Bix and Benny here. These gents clearly knew what was going on further north. The tune is a bit like 'Has Anybody Seen my Girl?' . Wondered what the library in the picture was.
You wil probably know here's another version of this on the Baxter list on RedHotJazz.
sammckinstry 6 months ago
@sammckinstry The picture is part of my 78 collection - this upload was originally made for Facebook as a "guess what it is" so I didn't show a picture of the label. The upload of this tune on RedHotJazz is exactly the same as this one - from Victor V-40160.
harryoakley 6 months ago
@sammckinstry - Actually the tune is rather similar to "Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue"
harryoakley 5 months ago
Another super track (and clean up?). A real bouncy rhythm, some unusual accordion and a nice mix of arrangement and looseness. These guys weren't dead in Dallas, whoever they were!
sammckinstry 6 months ago
@sammckinstry Quite. It's a weird kind of jazz which is very difficult to categorize. This record only sold locally and is extremely rare.
harryoakley 6 months ago