Charleston Craze of 1925: Yes Sir, That's My Baby - Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra

Yes Sir, That's My Baby : Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra, Vocal by C.A.Coon, Victor 1925

NOTE: I never have enough of that wonderful Kansas City dance band of the 1920s! I don't know a single recording of them, that could be called "weak" or "failed". Their music and their arrangements are an absolute heaven for every Roaring Twenties lover! Carleton Coon was a drummer and Joe Sanders was pianist. Sanders was known as "The Old Left Hander" because of his skills at baseball, but he gave the game up in the early 1920s to make dance music his career. Their orchestra began broadcasting in 1922 on channel station WDAF, which could be received throughout the United States. They took the name Nighthawks because they broadcast late at night from 11p.m. -1.00 a.m. The broadcast guaranteed them quickly the popularity and national recognition. They became so popular that Western Union set up a ticker tape between Sanders' piano and Coon's drums so the telegrams could be acknowledged during the broadcasts. Their song "Nighthawk Blues" includes the lines: "Tune right in on the radio/Grab a telegram and say 'Hello'."

In 1924 Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra left for Chicago to p[lay at The Blackhawk - an internationally known entertainment venue for the jazz band music. Two years later in 1926 they got an 11-month broadcast engagement in NYC at the Hotel New Yorker as a star attraction to induce radio stations to join the Columbia Broadcasting System. At their peak, each member of the Orchestra owned identical Cord Automobiles, each in a different color with the name of the Orchestra and the owner embossed on the rear. The Orchestra's popularity showed no signs of abating and their contract with MCA had another 15 years to run in the spring of 1932 when Carleton Coon came down with a jaw infection and died, on May 4. Joe Sanders attempted to keep the band going; however, without Coon, the public did not support them. In 1935, he formed his own group and played until the early 1940s. He died of a stroke in 1965.

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[Turkeydoodlers]

I have this I think it's by nat shilkret

[240252]

@Turkeydoodlers Sibe B of this record is the waltz "Sometime" played by Jack Shilkret's orchestra. It's the reason why, in your memory the name "shilkred" overlapped this recordng, I suppose

[barbcard]

Yes Sir, I'll always be your American "baby." Smashing pictures and rhythms. Any idea re the identity of that trio cavorting @2:17 not far from the US Capitol?

[240252]

@barbcard In Corbis - which isa very good photo archives in the web - I came across another version of that lovely SERIES of photographs (there are two more with the same trio, in diifferent settings) - yet the only info was something like: two women and a man dancing charleston with the Capitol behind them. But I vaguely remember sometime I read a mention, that the elder guy was a senator or a sort. (These photographs were quoted here and there a propos the Roaring Twenties' entertainment).

[BognarLJ]

Yes Sir ! That's My download!/for myself/

[240252]

@BognarLJ Yes sir, you're invited now! :-))

[shishirth]

So seductive!

[MinisterAilingTongue]

People used to sit down and stand up and get about together!

[Evija3000]

aaaaa I have a piano sheet for this song! Had totally forgotten about it. I'll learn it ASAP! The discovery that made my day :)

[MrRJDB1969]

@maggiecabral8 : True.

[MissCodswallop]

Groucho Marx @ 2:50! :D

[Randidan]

OOOOOPS!! Boy, did I screw up! it is a Fox trot, according to the disc [I have two copies myself...] and also John Bolig's fascinating and most helpful Victor Discography series of books. "Sometime" also had words by Gus Kahn, and had the distinction of being the first NYC-recorded victor to be released. I also missed that it was Jack, not Nat, Shilkret doing the waltz...

[Randidan]

@240252 Are you sure it's Jack S. & not Nat[haniel]???

[Randidan]

@2reeler gr8 anecdote! Helps set the time and place neatly, along with the mood...

[Randidan]

@sixtyn9ne I think it's very well done... why don't you upload it with your version of what it should be like -- I'll bet we'd all love it!

[numberoneson1]

marvellous,good music,pity there's not enough interest in this day............10/10