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TOAST TIME #7: BANDS FROM STRANGE AND EXOTIC PLACES LIKE LA AND THE UK

THE MUSIC MAKERS (from the BBC Dance Orchestra) directed by Henry Hall
[Heavily-featured reeds - admittedly this could have gone on our SAXOPHONICS set, qv.]
Buffoon (Zez Confrey) (Columbia 277-M, mx. CA 15672-2)
Apple Blossom (Columbia 277-M, mx. CA 15673-1)

AMBROSE & HIS ORCHESTRA
Brighter Than The Sun (Regal Zonophone MR 831, mx. CAR 1712- )
What More Can I Ask? (Regal Zonophone MR 831, mx. CAR 1711-1)

JOHN JACKSON & HIS ORCHESTRA (sic)
Sittin' In the Dark
Let By-Gones Be By-Gones v Al Bowlly!

HARRY ROY & HIS MAYFAIR HOTEL ORCHESTRA
Better Think Twice
Alexander's Ragtime Band

LEW STONE & HIS BAND
Shades of Hades (English Decca F-6188, mx. TB2604-1)

RAY NOBLE & HIS ORCHESTRA
Hustlin' and Bustlin' For Baby vAl Bowlly

AL BOWLLY miscellany (11-19) The following are all from the CD:President PLCD 540 -
the rest of this disc is all Ray Noble, which will be either on the Vocalion series (covering all the English N-B sessions) or on our own home-toasted Nowlly-Boble in New York (the 3-CD set) series.

LOVER COME BACK TO ME: w/Monia Liter p, 13.11.33
MARIA MY OWN: w/Orch acc, 20.4.33
CARELESSLY: w/Ronnie Munro Orch, 19.6.37
THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU: w/Monia Liter p, 9.4.33
MY CANARY HAS CIRCLES UNDER HIS EYES: Howard Godfrey's Waldorfians 6.31
TRUE: w/Monia Liter p, 9.4.33

LITTLE DUTCH WILL: w/Monia Liter p, 9.4.33
ON A LITTLE DREAM RAUNCH: w/Ronnie Munro Orch, 19.6.37
BLUE HAWAII: w/Ronnie Munro Orch, 5.7.37

The remainder of our program is West Coast Bands...

GUS ARNHEIM & HIS ORCHESTRA
Lovable And Sweet (-2) (Victor 22054-A)

TOM GERUNOVITCH (Tom Gerun) & HIS (ROOF GARDEN) ORCHESTRA
Atta Boy (Old Pal! Old Sock! Old Kid! Old Thing! Old Gold! Oh Baby!) (Brunswick 4755, February 3, 1930) A forerunner of Ted Weems's "Hi Ya Duchess!"
My Gal Sal (Brunswick 4050, August 27, 1928) (from Timeless "Jazz In California" CD)
Sincerely I Do (Brunswick 4047, August 27, 1928) (from Arcadia "West Coast Jazz, Vol. 2")
I'm Telling You (Brunswick 4179, December 13, 1928)
I Found You Out When I Found You in Somebody Else's Arms (Brunswick 4179, December 13, 1928)

TOAST TIME #3 : MOSTLY STRINGS AND OTHER OFFBEAT ENSEMBLES OF THE '30s

Starring Joe Venuti (rarities including an Associated TX title I haven't heard anywhere else - with a solo by Our Man Prima!) and the New Friends of Rhythm with Buster Bailey and Maxine Sullivan. Toasted by Waterman Levinson from John Leifert [JL] and Paul Lindemeyer [PL].

JOE VENUTI & HIS ORCHESTRA
Everybody Shuffle (-2 unissued) (October 13, 1933) [JL, test pressing]
Earthquake (Will Hudson) (December 26, 1934 Associated 146) vertical transcription [PL]
JOE VENUTI & RUSS MORGAN, piano (September 12, 1935) [PL]
Red Velvet
Black Satin
JOE VENUTI & HIS ORCHESTRA (October 28, 1935) [PL]
Stop, Look and Listen
Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town

JERRY JOHNSON & HIS ORCHESTRA
Missouri Misery (August 22, 1934) [PL]

GEORGIE STOLL & HIS ORCHESTRA (Decca 976-A) [JL]
The Girl Friend
Swanee

MILLS CAVALCADE ORCHESTRA
(June 11, 1935) (George Brunies, tb., dir.) vGirls Trio [PL]
Lovely Liza Lee
Rhythm Lullaby

IRVING MILLS & HIS ORCHESTRA
conducted by Andy Sanella (Brunswick 8183, 1938)
Manhattan Holiday (mx. M821) (1938)
Dream Of Me (mx. 820)

NEW FRIENDS OF RHYTHM [Mostly PL]

Sylvan Shulman, Zelly Smirnoff, violins; Louis Kievman, viola; Alan Shulman, cello; Harry Patent, bass; Tony Colucci, guitar; Laura Newell, harp
Foster Chile (Victor 26503-A)
High Voltage (Victor 26503-B)

As above, except Harry Glickman replaces Smirnoff; add Buster Bailey, clarinet
Heavy Traffic On Canal Street (Victor 26647A, May 24, 1940)
Mood In Question (Victor 26647B, May 24, 1940)
Coo, Dinny, Coo (victor 24712-A, May 24, 1940)
Sweet Sue, Just You (Victor 24712-B (minus Bailey)

MAXINE SULLIVAN w/THE NEW FRIENDS OF RHYTHM

If I Had A Ribbon Bow
Mad About the Boy
Jackie Boy
I Must Have That Man
Loch Lomond
I Can't Get Started With You