dance craze<\/a> that eventually overtook the Charleston in popularity.<\/p>\nLarry Conley, Jack Stern, and Jules Roos were the composers of “Cryin’ For The Moon.”\u00a0 This recording, made at Victor’s headquarters in Camden, New Jersey, rather than at its main studios in New York City,\u00a0 joins an existing recording of the song by Abe Lyman’s California Orchestra already featured in Radio Dismuke’s playlist.<\/p>\n
Gus C. Edwards’ band was one of many Chicago-area bands managed by the Benson Organization, an early band-booking agency owned by impresario Edgar A. Benson that, during the early 1920s, dominated much of the live music market in Chicago and the surrounding region.<\/p>\n
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