“I’m Gonna Charleston Back To Charleston”
Missouri Jazz Band
(Domino 3610 B mx 16095) July 9, 1925
“I’m Sitting On Top Of The World”
Sam Lanin’s Dance Orchestra; Arthur Hall, vocal
(Domino 3610 A mx 16243) October 17, 1925
Here are two recordings from the Edward Mitchell collection made during the height of the mid-1920s Charleston dance craze.
Both of these songs were recorded by a variety of bands in 1925
“The Missouri Jazz Band” was a pseudonym used for recordings by multiple bands on labels distributed by the Plaza Music company such as Regal, Banner and Domino. After those labels merged into the American Record Corporation the name was used on additional labels such as Romeo and Cameo. In this recording the actual band was Lou Gold and His Orchestra.
Al Jolson also made a 1925 recording of “I’m Sitting On Top Of The World” and later performed it in the 1928 film The Singing Fool, made during the period when theaters were making the transition from silent to sound films. Most of the film was produced as a silent film. But, for theaters that were equipped with the Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology, it featured a synchronized musical score as well as a few scenes that included dialog and singing.
Though both Victor and Columbia were using microphones by the time these sides were recorded, recordings on Domino and its affiliated labels still utilized acoustical recording horns.