{"id":1941,"date":"2025-05-01T16:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2025-05-01T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:22:09","slug":"arcadia-peacock-orchestra-of-st-louis-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2025\/05\/01\/arcadia-peacock-orchestra-of-st-louis-1924\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcadia Peacock Orchestra of St. Louis – 1924"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OKeh<\/p>\n

Background information about the recordings can be found below the audio selections.
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“Where’s My Sweetie Hiding?”
\nArcadia Peacock Orchestra of St Louis; Chic Harvey, vocal
\n(OKeh 40254-B\u00a0 \u00a0mx 8764-A)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 November 29, 1924<\/p>\n

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“Let Me Be The First To Kiss You Good Morning”
\nArcadia Peacock Orchestra of St Louis
\n(OKeh 40254-A\u00a0 \u00a0mx8767-B)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 November 29, 1924<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Arcadia-Peacock-Orchestra-of-St-Louis-Let-Me-Be-The-First-To-Kiss-You-Good-Morning.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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From the Edward Mitchell Collection, here are two sides by an excellent St. Louis jazz band, directed by violinist Jack Ford, which took its name from the city’s long-since-demolished Arcadia Ballroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This band had a rather distinctive, and I think very nice, style.\u00a0 It’s unfortunate that its entire recorded output of twelve sides, made for OKeh between January 1924 and March 1925, was produced with the soon-to-be-obsolete pre-microphone era acoustic recording technology.\u00a0 (The British Parlophone label issued a 1927 electrical recording credited to the Arcadia Peacock Orchestra of St. Louis, but the band on it is the Sol S. Wagner Orchestra.)<\/span><\/p>\n

In my opinion, both of these recordings are outstanding. “Where’s My Sweetie Hiding?” is by far the jazziest of the two, but I think the band’s arrangement of “Let Me Be the First to Kiss You Good Morning” is incredibly charming, making it my favorite.<\/p>\n

While digging around online for information about the band, I came across this interesting article<\/a> on the Syncopated Times’<\/em><\/a> website about its banjo player, Porter Brown.<\/p>\n

I know that at least one additional record by this band exists in Eddie’s collection.\u00a0 But I am not sure where within the collection it is located.\u00a0 Once I come across it, I will definitely prioritize it for digitization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two 1924 recordings by the Arcadia Peacock Orchestra of St. Louis, which took its name from that city’s Arcadia Ballroom. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":66,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,45,47,46],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1920s","tag-arcadia-peacock-orchestra-of-st-louis","tag-chic-harvey","tag-jack-ford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","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=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}