Broadway Music Makers (California Ramblers) - Bit By Bit (1923)

Bit by Bit (You're Breaking My Heart)
Words by Gus Kahn
Music by Murray Bloom
Performed by the California Ramblers using the pseudonym "Broadway Music Makers"
Recorded November 5, 1923
Radiex 1195

Personnel:
Arthur Hand - violin, director
Frank Kush, Bill Moore - trumpet
Lloyd "Ole" Olsen - trombone
Bobby Davis, Arnold Brilhart, Freddie Cusic - reeds
Adrian Rollini - bass saxophone
Irving Brodsky - piano
Ray Kitchingman - banjo
Stan King - drums

The California Ramblers was one of the most recorded dance/jazz orchestras of the 1920s. The Redhot Jazz website has a discography that lists about 700 recording sessions between 1921 and 1937. The band was organized and managed by Columbia record promoter, Ed Kirkeby. During this time the orchestra recorded for many different labels, often using different pseudonyms such as Six Black Diamonds, Golden Gate Orchestra, Imperial Dance Orchestra and as Broadway Music Makers for the Radiex Record label. The California Ramblers was primarily a New York based studio outfit and never recorded in California.

The personnel changed frequently over the years, but it included, at times, some great jazz musicians such as Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Lennie Hayton, Fud Livingston, Miff Mole, Phil Napoleon, Red Nichols, Adrian Rollini. Vocalists included Artie Dunn, Sammy Fain, Arthur Hall, Irving Kaufman, Billy Jones and Ed Kirkeby.

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• California Ramblers
• Bit By Bit
• Broadway Music Makers
• 1923
• acoustic
• Ed Kirkeby
• Radiex 1195
• Gus Kahn
• Murray Bloom
• 1920s
• Jazz
• dance
• Adrian Rollini
• Irving Brodsky

[bsgs98]

@EdisonSquirrel Thanks.  I like how clear the piano solo is and of course, Rollini's bass sax!

[EdisonSquirrel]

Hot recording...good sound!

[bsgs98]

@HarborGuy There are a few reissues available. Check Amazon. But they only represent a small fraction of the Ramblers' total output.

[HarborGuy]

Great - almost makes you wish the recordings were electric then.......or re-issued.