Roger Wolfe Kahn & His Orchestra - A Cup of Coffee, A Sandwich, and You (1925)

Roger Wolfe Kahn was born October 19, 1907 in Morristown, New Jersey into a wealthy German Jewish banking family. His father was Otto Hermann Kahn, a famous banker and patron of the arts. Otto and Roger Kahn were the first father and son to appear separately on the cover of Time magazine: Otto in November 1925 and Roger in September 1927, at the age of 19.
Kahn is said to have learned to play 18 musical instruments before starting to lead his own orchestra in 1923, at the age of 16. In 1925, Kahn began recording and appeared in a De Forest Phonofilm sound short. Kahn hired some of the most famous jazz musicians of the day to play in his band, especially during recording sessions, for example Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Artie Shaw, Jack Teagarden, Red Nichols, and Gene Krupa.
Kahn recorded for Victor from 1925-1929, Brunswick 1929-1930, and finally Columbia in 1932. Kahn always had fun leading and conducting his orchestra. Reportedly, when the band was playing especially well he used to throw himself onto the floor and wave his legs in the air. However, in the mid-1930s, he lost interest in his orchestra and disbanded it. Instead, he preoccupied himself with aviation and eventually became a test pilot for the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation in 1941.
In 1931, Kahn made headlines on the New York society pages when he married musical comedy actress Hannah Williams January 16, 1931. The wedding was at his family's estate on Long Island, and was kept secret from the public for two weeks, until the Broadway show Williams was appearing in had its final performance. The couple made headlines again when they divorced two years later. After only a few weeks as a single woman, Williams married boxing champion Jack Dempsey. Two days after the divorce, on April 7, 1933, Roger Wolfe Kahn married Edith May Nelson, a Maine politician's daughter. That marriage lasted from 1933 till Kahn's death of a heart attack in New York City on July 12, 1962.
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• Jazz
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• 1920s
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• New York City
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[TCDS75]

Amable ........................César

[fromthesidelines]

Since this was published by one of Warner Bros. music publishing libraries, Carl Stalling used this often in his scores for the studio's cartoons in the '40s and '50s.

[bearcub410]

thank you so much one of my favorites from the 1920's and this band is tops , thank you AAAAAA++++++++