{"id":1814,"date":"2025-04-07T18:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2025-04-07T19:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T00:06:53","slug":"casino-dance-orchestra-bennie-krueger-his-orchestra-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2025\/04\/07\/casino-dance-orchestra-bennie-krueger-his-orchestra-1921\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino Dance Orchestra\/Bennie Krueger & His Orchestra – 1921"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Background information about the recordings can be found below the audio selections.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Stolen Kisses”
\nCasino Dance Orchestra
\n(Pathe 020579-B)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 circa May 1921<\/p>\n

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“Julienne”
\nBennie Krueger And His Orchestra
\n(Pathe 020579)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 June 8, 1921<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bennie-Krueger-And-His-Orchestra-Julienne.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Here are two rather charming recordings from a 1921 Pathe Actuelle disc.<\/p>\n

“Stolen Kisses” is a Ted Snyder<\/a> composition.\u00a0 Snyder was a highly successful songwriter and music publisher, best remembered today for songs such as “The Sheik of Araby” and “Who’s Sorry Now?” which remain well-known.<\/p>\n

The identity of the band on this recording is not known, as Pathe’s recording logs have long been lost.\u00a0 The Casino Dance Orchestra was a pseudonym that Pathe assigned to recordings made by several bands for the label.\u00a0 Discographer Brian Rust<\/a> speculates that the band on this might have been either the Nathan Glantz<\/a> Orchestra or Joseph Knecht’s<\/a> Waldorf-Astoria Dance Orchestra.\u00a0 \u00a0Whoever the band might have been, its saxophone player provides some nice Rudy Wiedoeft<\/a>-style passages.<\/p>\n

“Julienne” is a Roy Turk<\/a> – J. Russell Robinson<\/a> composition, billed on the record’s label as a “Franco-American Foxtrot.”\u00a0 While both Turk and Robinson were well-known composers, this particular song seems to have been rather obscure as I was not able to find much information or even very many references to it during my online research.<\/p>\n

Prominent on this recording is the Bennie Krueger<\/a> Orchestra’s banjo player Bill Arenburg.\u00a0 The banjo was an essential part of the rhythm section of the early jazz and dance bands in the era before the advent of electrical amplification.\u00a0 Banjos are loud and could cut through and be heard over the ensemble of the various brass instruments.\u00a0 They also reproduced well under the constraints of the limited frequency response of pre-microphone era acoustic recording technology.<\/p>\n

Pathe records during this period were made through an unusual and utterly unique process.\u00a0 I previously wrote about it in some detail in this May 4, 2024 posting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  Background information about the recordings can be found below the audio selections.\u00a0   “Stolen Kisses” Casino Dance Orchestra (Pathe 020579-B)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 circa May 1921   “Julienne” Bennie Krueger And … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":67,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}