Hal Kemp's Orch. & Skinnay Ennis - When My Dreams Come True, 1929

Hal Kemp & His Orchestra, voc. Skinnay Ennis - When My Dreams Come True (I.Berlin) (from "The Cocoanuts"), Brunswick 1929

NOTE:
Hal KEMP (1904 1940) was a jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, composer, and arranger. He was born in Marion, Alabama and died in Madera, California following an auto accident. Art Jarrett took on leadership of Kemp's orchestra in 1941. His major recordings were "There's a Small Hotel", "This Year's Kisses", "Where or When", "When I'm With You", "Got a Date With an Angel", and "Three Little Fishes".

Skinnay ENNIS was American singer and bandleader who met Hal Kemp in 1927 while both were attending college at the University of North Carolina. Kemp picked Ennis to play drums in his campus band, the Carolina Club Orchestra, and when Kemp left UNC to form a professional jazz band later that year Ennis went with him. Kemp also encouraged him to sing. His singing style was shy and breathless and proved a perfect match for the unique style of sweet dance music that Kemp's orchestra came to play by the mid-1930s. He quickly became popular with female audiences and was soon the band's biggest star.

„The Cocoanuts, a 1929 movie based on The Marx Brothers' Bradway show of the same name, took place at the height of the Florida land boom, in a mythical Florida land development, Coconut Beach.

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[6silhouette5]

Gosh, Skinnay Ennis is such a good singer. I have a song by him titled "When I'm with you". Love it so much.

[jazzgirl1920s]

Yes, this song was played in the Marx Brothers 1929 film for Paramount, The Cocoanuts. I had only heard it in that movie and had never heard a 78 recording of the tune until this one. Nice to hear another version of this tune from that Marx Brothers film. I think Harpo Marx plays a subtone clarinet solo in the film just like the clarinet player on this recording.

[edgrosso]

Probably correct. Now this is a debate worth having (in times like these.) Thanks Derek. Ed

[phredl]

I believe the banjo player is Ollie Humphries who was with the band from the beginning. I think Kemp did a film short with Peabody and they really were highlighting Peabody not the band.

[Masquerade03]

Charming presentation Grezgorz and very nice music! Thanks.

[heinbanjo12]

Thank you Ed.

[edgrosso]

I believe it to be Eddie Peabody. Famous for being introduced on live radio, 'Eddie Playbody will now Pee for You."

[HarborGuy]

The romances and Photo Play were all the rage, the music almost sound like it was ready for the mid l930's - great version.........Love, the old magazine covers........and the 4x4 time..

[barbcard]

The kind of hilarious pulp magazines that one had to hide behind an algebra textbook or Silas Marner. Not that they were truly risque, except maybe in a subtle way for the couple at 2:31. Either she's lost her chastity or--given her plumpness--is slightly pregnant.

[Corrie121]

Most enjoyable!! Great rendition.

Thank you for sharing.