Lou Gold & His Orchestra

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Lou Gold & His Orchestra was an American band from the 1920s.

Live and act

The pianist Lou Gold played early jazz , dance music and novelty songs with his orchestra such as Clap Yo 'Hands , Do Do Do (1926), Skadatin-Dee (Just a Funny Sound and a Melody) (1928), Scrappy Lambert My Kinda Love ( 1929) When it's Springtime in the Rockies or That Little Boy Of Mine (1931, with band vocalist Smith Ballew ) for labels such as Banner , Cameo , Crown , Harmony , Imperial , Perfect and Romeo , sometimes under pseudonyms such as Rex King & His Sovereigns . On January 17, 1927, he played the first version of Ain't She Sweet as Lou Gold & His Melody Men (Silvertone # 5033); the song The Varsity Drag (1927) was used in the film adaptation of the musical Good News (1930).

In 1929 Gold accompanied with his band Irving Kaufman ( Louise , 1928), Gladys Rice and Franklyn Baur . One of the soloists in his orchestra was the banjo player Ralph Dexter. The Latin orchestra Don Carlos and His Rumba Band emerged from the gold orchestra in the 1930s . Gold worked in the field of jazz in 21 recording sessions between 1925 and 1930. The orchestra's recordings were released in 2009 on the It's Tight Like That CD .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Crawford, Jeffrey Magee: Jazz Standards on Record, 1900-1942: A Core Repertory , p. 23.
  2. ↑ Alice Rogers: Dance Bands & Big Bands: Documenting Over 30,000 Golden Age Dance & Big Band Recordings - All on 78 rpm Singles , Jellyroll Productions, 1986, p. 173
  3. ↑ Good News at Daily Motion
  4. ^ Ross Laird: Moanin 'low: a discography of female popular vocal recordings, 1920-1933 , p. 448
  5. ^ Karl Koenig: Jazz in Print (1859-1929): An Anthology of Early Source Readings in Jazz History , p. 1924
  6. ↑ Gustavo Pérez Firmat: The Havana Habit
  7. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography