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“I Don’t Want To Make History (I Just Want To Make Love)”
\nStuff Smith And His Onyx Club Boys; Stuff Smith, vocal
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“Tain’t No Use”
\nStuff Smith And His Onyx Club Boys; Stuff Smith, vocal
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Stuff Smith<\/a> was one the 1930’s top jazz violinists.\u00a0 As the band’s billing suggests, it regularly appeared at New York’s Onyx Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before forming his own band, Smith spent several years as a member of the Alphonso Trent Orchestra.\u00a0 Though it only made a handful of records and is largely forgotten today,\u00a0 Trent’s band significantly impacted the history of American popular music.\u00a0 It was the first black band to become the in-house band of a high-end, big-city hotel and the first to regularly and prominently broadcast over radio.\u00a0 You can read more about the Alphonso Trent Orchestra at this lin<\/a>k.<\/p>\n

The song “I Don’t Want To Make History (I Just Want To Make Love)” was from the 1936 film Palm Springs. That film was also the Hollywood debut of a gentleman whose voice will be familiar to regular Radio Dismuke listeners: Smith Ballew<\/a>. In addition to leading his own successful band, Ballew appeared on hundreds of records as a freelance studio vocalist for most of the major labels between 1929 and 1935.\u00a0 While Ballew sang in the film, Frances Langford performed “I Don’t Want To Make History.”<\/p>\n

Stuff Smith’s musical career continued long after the period of Radio Dismuke’s focus. He spent the last few years living and performing in Europe, where he died in 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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