B.A. Rolfe & His Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra - Singin' In the Rain

Another selection from my Small Cache of Edison Lateral Cut Recordings.
B.A. Rolfe was a highly sucessful Dance Band Leader of the mid to late 1920's. At the height of his career, he rivaled Paul Whiteman, both in Size, Salary, and Popularity. Up until 1928 Rolfe's Orchestra had been the "Palais D'Or" Orchestra - which was the name of the popular Restaurant/Ballroom he played at in New York. In late 1928 his band began playing on Radio three times a week and was sponsored by Lucky Strike Cigarettes - hence the name the Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra. His career as a bandleader began to falter by the mid 1930's and by 1940 he had retired from music all together. He died in Massachusettes in 1956.
The selection heard here was just one of the MANY versions of this tune recorded throughout 1929. "Singin' in the Rain" was originally introduced by Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards in the hugely popular all-talking, all-singing MGM motion picture "Hollywood Revue of 1929". To hear more great music such as this, please tune into our 24 hour internet radio station. Just visit our website at: http://www.americansoundarchive.com & click on the "Listen Live" icon. Please feel free to comment on this (or any) of our videos. As always, thanks for watching and listening.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 1920s
• Jazz
• Dance Band
• Thomas Edison
• Lateral Cut
• Lucky Strike
• New York
• Prohibition
• Depression
• 1929

[rogharm]

great opera singer makes great dancer ashamed to sing as he cannot but this singer is GREAT!!!!! kelly stinks as a singer. rated highest 11+ is this duplicate record as i posted for this version previously. ROGHARM

[Bigband78]

This is one I have.Thanks for the upload.

[roybo1930]

This is my all time FAVORIT Version of this song!!! I First heard it when i was 18 years old a friend had it on a tape of rear edison recordings. To me no other version exist!