78rpm: My Gal Sal - "The Stokers Of Hades" (Fletcher Henderson), 1931 - Parlophone R 1196

As things get a little more chilly, allow me to let loose a band that stokes hades. ;)

No idea on the reason for the pseudonym, but the forces that be couldn't have chosen a cooler one for Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra at the time - one of his most SAVAGE bands here.

Yet another 78 I snagged at the Louisiana Music Factory on Decatur Street in the French Quarter, New Orleans. :)

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• prohibition
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[wadeharris65]

I have an old Perfect 78 with a group calling itself the "Lenox Dance Orchestra" playing on one side. I'd always figured it was some obscure hotel band, until looking around online one day, I found the side listed as probably NOT including Louis Armstrong on cornet. Reading a bit more...turns out it's a side by Henderson and his band from '25.

[SwingMan1937]

@wadeharris65 Yep, you've always gotta be aware of 1920's-1930's pseudonyms. Guy working where I snagged this one from was the one who actually pointed it out to me - he saw that I was a kindered spirit where good jazz was concerned after seeing the armful of 78's I'd already put in the pile I intended to purchase and brought it to my attention. He says "Don't know if you dig Fletcher Henderson, but..." - and here it is. ;)

Got around 20 78's that day & he knocked a chunk off the top price, too.

[RatPfink66]

A classic, mostly unacknowledged.

Henderson was about to lose his record contract and when he got it back, the band had gone half to hell - great soloists over sloppy ensembles. Took them a year or more to get their thang back.

[sideshowtink]

AWESOME Parlophone! Amazing! Beautiful record, Mark!! That warmed me up just right!

[normweav]

.Thanks, Swingman. Great tune!

[wadeharris65]

@SwingMan1937 You're right about the pseudonyms. I've discovered a couple of my "hillbilly" records are actually Vernon Dalhart recordings. I was about fifteen when I found that Perfect 78 and bought it more for the unusual orange-brown shellac; played it a couple of times (even by 1920's standards, it's a bit hokey) and proceeded to stash it towards the back of the shelves, somewhere. Now I think a bit more highly of it - after all, it DOES have Coleman Hawkins playing on it! ;-)

[TrabalRipoll]

Fletcher is one of the sources of wisdom and knowledge, not only for himself but other great jazzmen ever. This is one of the best examples. Thanks my friend for posting this treasure!!!

[jatoodee]

Just the right pep for 10F day in Quebec! Thanks again. Love Coleman Hawkins!

[jatoodee]

YEAH!!!! Its my mom and her championship dancing the Charleston all over again!

[ThePeaceableKingdom]

It is something of the tenor of the age that a song so sentimental, concerned with loss and death (practically funereal) could swing into something this hot, this fun - to which people could dance and drink. I don't completely understand it. It's just the feel of the times... how people lived and thought and felt... But when you hear it, you do, somehow, understand it...

[BoudiccaBlanc]

Thumbs up!

Thanks for posting. :))

[Bartholomule01]

Wow, that's cool that you found a Henderson cut by a different name.