| “Who Wouldn’t” Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders Charles Buckwalter, Edward Groff, Frank Masterson, vocal July 7, 1926 (Victor 20117-A) |
| “Cryin’ For The Moon” Gus C Edwards And His Orchestra August 31, 1926 (Victor 20167-B) |
Here are two selections from the Edward Mitchell collection that will be among those included in this week’s Radio Dismuke playlist update.
“Who Wouldn’t” is a Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson composition. This particular recording turned 100 years old a little over a week ago – though it was not released for sale until the following November. The Ben Selvin Orchestra’s recording of the song is already part of Radio Dismuke’s playlist.
About a week and a half before this recording was made, Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders recorded what would become by far the band’s biggest and most famous hit, “Black Bottom,” named after the dance craze that eventually overtook the Charleston in popularity.
Larry Conley, Jack Stern, and Jules Roos were the composers of “Cryin’ For The Moon.” This recording, made at Victor’s headquarters in Camden, New Jersey, rather than at its main studios in New York City, joins an existing recording of the song by Abe Lyman’s California Orchestra already featured in Radio Dismuke’s playlist.
Gus C. Edwards’ band was one of many Chicago-area bands managed by the Benson Organization, an early band-booking agency owned by impresario Edgar A. Benson that, during the early 1920s, dominated much of the live music market in Chicago and the surrounding region.
