California Ramblers<\/a> used on the low-priced Cameo label, as well as on Cameo’s various subsidiary labels.\u00a0 The recording here was also issued on Cameo’s Lincoln label but under the pseudonym of the University Sextette.<\/p>\nBeginning in 1922 and into the early 1930s, the band, whose roster over the years included some of the era’s top jazz musicians, recorded countless hundreds of sides under their own name, as well as a vast array of pseudonyms, for virtually every American record label of the era.<\/p>\n
I’ve read that over 100 pseudonyms were ultimately used for the band’s recordings, though some of them were used much more frequently than others, such as the Varsity Eight, the Golden Gate Orchestra, the University Six, the Five Birmingham Babies, and Ted Wallace and His Campus Boys.<\/p>\n
It was not uncommon for the California Ramblers to record a song, with slight changes in arrangement, for multiple labels.\u00a0 However, I was not able to find any reference to indicate that this was the case with “Take Oh Take Those Lips Away.”<\/p>\n
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“Take Oh Take Those Lips Away” Varsity Eight November 22, 1923\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Cameo 444 mx 726) \u201cTake Oh Take Those Lips Away\u201d Brooke Johns And His Orchestra; Brooke Johns, vocal November 20, 1923\u00a0 \u00a0 (Victor 19204 A) Here … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":33,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,12,61,60],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1920s","tag-broadway-music","tag-brooke-johns","tag-california-ramblers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","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=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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