[78-L] Victor Light Opera Jazz Band/Not Shilkret!

[Sam Brylawski]

EDVR data: B-21901-1, May 3, 1918. Josef Pasternack conducting.
Ledgers note: 11 extra men. The flip side of the disc, "Oh Lady! Lady!
medley is from the same session.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:46 PM,  <SUPRBATONE at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/10/2008 2:38:56 PM, Dnjchi at aol.com writes:
>
> <<what a  roaring good time was had with this take !!!
> Ive hand the record for ages  and never got past the first chorus ... never
> can tell what gems are lurking  among  the  coal....
> Was Nat Shilkret  doin VLO   at this time ?  Its been said Nat has many
> sides... maybe this is another  one of them...
> dnward
>>>
>
> Indeed - As a matter o' fact, listening to Vi 35677 again, this "jazz" is
> also totally "punk" - the energy is unbelievable.  It seems to look forward to
> the Sex Pistols as much as the ODJB (Nick La Rocca meets Sid Vicious)! The
> Victor orchestra sure never made any records like this on their own.
>
> Nat Shilkret was involved with Victor from 1914, but - according to NS
> himself - only in the "foreign" department until the '20s.  Doesn't anyone have hard
> info about this session?
>
> According to the Internet Broadway Data Base, "Rainbow Girl" ran from April
> 1st, 1918 to sometime in August, for an impressive total of 160 performances.
> This VLOC side was likely done early in the run, in April of '18 - VERY early
> in the game for anything like "jazz" on Broadway!  "Mister Drummer Man" - the
> number played by the "Jazz Orchestra" - was a vocal duet in the actual show.
>  There was also a number called "Alimony Blues" and another called "Soon
> We'll All Be Seen Upon the Screen." - very up-to-the-minute stuff for mid-World
> War One.
>
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