{"id":1118,"date":"2024-03-10T19:34:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T00:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2024-03-10T19:34:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T00:34:15","slug":"stuff-smith-and-his-onyx-club-boys-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2024\/03\/10\/stuff-smith-and-his-onyx-club-boys-1936\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff Smith And His Onyx Club Boys – 1936"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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
\nVocalion 3200 mx 18817\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0March 13, 1936<\/p>\n

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“Tain’t No Use”
\nStuff Smith And His Onyx Club Boys; Stuff Smith, vocal
\nVocalion 3200 mx 18818 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0March 13, 1936<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Stuff-Smith-And-His-Onyx-Club-Boys-Taint-No-Use.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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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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