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I wanted to play something on my Columbia Viva-Tonal model 800 phonograph, so I grabbed a Brunswick Jazz classic record pressed in the 1940s but recorded in 1928 as it says on the label. You would never guess who the band leader was as his later 1930s records sound very different and more commercial. The name of the song was Jungle Blues. It sounded more than terrific on my Columbia machine!!! Anyone have a guess?

Well, I know who had the most famous recording of that tune, but I cheated. I looked it up on Google.

And it is a great recording.

Clay

Darned if I know. But flip the record over, and play "Room 1411". That's pretty hot, too.

After I post this I will google it.

I have a Columbia Viva-tonal by Ted Lewis and I think it's a gem.
Much of his work in the 20s is of interest to me.

James

Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers represent the early recorded layer of New Orleans small ensemble jazz c. 1926. This tune of Morton also appeared on a CD compilation issued about 20 years ago. All Morton's stuff is swinging! Thanks for posting!

oh com one you guys you all know who it is!
he also played a role in the 1948 danny kaye movie ''a song is born'' now who in the picture above can it be??

tino

ps the movie is a modern version of snowwhite

Got it. Virginia Mayo, of course! I should have known....

Some very witty answers here!!! Tim got it right with the movie picture. He's the guy with glasses and a moustache. I had the pleasure to see him perform at a 1976 outdoor theater concert at San Diego State University where he appeared with the San Diego Symphony. After he played the Mozart clarinet concerto, he played some of his swing pieces and was still doing some of the shtick that he did in the movie above. Like trying to beat out time with his leg, looking more like a clumsy horse trying to count, and dropping his mouth piece off the stage to the ground. Yes Ted Lewis did record Jungle Blues complete with bird calls, but he recorded for Columbia exclusively. Jelly Roll Morton recorded it first, as he wrote it, I think on Victor records. The 40s repressing of this record can be found in the Brunswick Collector's Series album No. R-1007 and titled Chicago Jazz Classics. This album was released in June, 1943 during the 1942-44 musician's strike, so record companies were forced to re-issue old records by calling them "classics". Brunswick, which I think was owned by Decca, Columbia, which had access to the 1920s OKeh library, and Victor reissued albums during and after WWII which they called jazz classics. And lucky for us as you can buy one of these four disc albums today for from $5 to $10 an album.

now who in the picture above can it be??

tino

ps the movie is a modern version of snowwhite

Tino,

It is also a musical version of 1941's Ball of Fire starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyk.

marcapra wrote:

now who in the picture above can it be??

tino

ps the movie is a modern version of snowwhite

Tino,

It is also a musical version of 1941's Ball of Fire starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyk.

i know but that one din't have you-know-who in it playing the you-know-what
tino