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Baby Oh Where Can You Be?- Carl Fenton & His Orch.

Precious Little Thing Called Love- Ellis Stratakos Hotel Jung Orch.

It All Belongs To Me- Irwin Abrams & His Hotel Manger Orch.

From November 1932, this is my Victor 78 of Baby Rose Marie singing IN THE DIM DIM DAWNING.

07 In The Dim Dim Dawning

Here is my 1934 Columbia Royal Blue 78 by the Yacht Club Boys singing "Sing Sing Isn't Prison Any More"

FIlings Selections Mar '14

Sing Sing Isn't Prison Any More

Go Wash An Elephant- The Caroliners (Bob Haring)

Toronto Silent Film Festival, with Shirley Hughes • The Silent Treatment, with Brandee Cox and Steven Hill • James L. Neibaur on Silent W.C. Fields

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20: Toronto Silent Film Festival | The Silent Treatment | Silent W.C. Fields

Let's Get Friendly

Wow!  Just got seven Vitaphone disks and had to share a few. Your head will explode on this one! It’s Vitaphone #729 MAL HALLETT AND HIS ENTERTAINING ORCHESTRA from February 1929. The great news is that the film portion survives and therefore this short can be restored.  Needless to say, this will be added to the impending batch of 50 Vitaphone restorations. From the soundtrack, it’s clear the Hallett band didn’t just sit and play.  They’re a real PERFORMING band.

01 Mal Hallett Vitaphone 729

Another Vitaphone disk I got this week is for #427 FRED WARING AND HIS PENNSYLVANIANS (February, 1927).  It is one of the earliest Vitaphone band shorts.  He made two that day and the second is restored. Here they play two pop tunes: "Breezin' Along With The Breeze" (sung by Fred's brother Tom and "Me Too" with the entire band.

12 Waring's Penn Vita 427

Dogtail blues
Sid Phillips

The Riviera Five "del Cova"; leader H. Phillips


Dogtail blues - The Riviera Five "del Cova" - leader H. Phillips

Helen Ward & Buddy Clark sing Johnny Green's "Not Bad," from one of the first LET'S DANCE NBC programs by Benny Goodman, December 1934. Transferred from the original aircheck lacquer, which was recorded for arranger Joe Lipman. 

Not Bad - Benny Goodman

Buddy Clark sings with BG on the first LET'S DANCE show, December 1, 1934. Transferred from the original aircheck disc

The Object of My Affection - Benny Goodman

Here is an extreme rarity, a personal recording made in 1931by Lyda Roberti and Harold Arlen. They sound happily tipsy to me!

02 Lyda Roberti Harold Arlen

BLACK PANTHER played by Bert Lown & his Orchestra

BLACK PANTHER - Bert Lown & his Orchestra

San Francisco's most popular dance orchestra, recorded in 1932.

Baby Oh Where Can You Be?- Carl Fenton & His Orch.

Joe Busam

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