[78-L] cdbpdx utube videos WAS Barbary Coast Orchestra

[I. Cubillo]

What a magnificient collection of videos, truly music recordings... the
image is the record being played on a Garrard TT.

I'm amazed at the Nick Lucas recordings (Br 2536) I had never listened to
before. I'd read about these recordings and Nick Lucas in Tim Gracyk's
magazine and website, but this is the very first time I've been exposed to
the art of Mr. Lucas.

BTW... some time ago (years, probably) I was chasing 78s and a wonder popped
up, a french Brunswick issue (Br 1036) of the original US Br 4484, by ANDY
SANELLA stg, playing "Sliding on the frets" and "Blues on the guitar". I've
enjoyed Nick Lucas a lot, but still think Sanella is better on Br 4484.



Iñigo Cubillo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Barbary Coast Orchestra


78records at cdbpdx.com wrote:
> I just picked up some studio recordings by the Barbary Coast Orchestra,
recorded Dec 7, 1942.
>
>
You put these on YouTube...
http://www.youtube.com/user/cdbpdx

Also
http://www.samswansen.com/barbary.htm

Still exist
http://hop.dartmouth.edu/assets/pdf/notes-fall07-bcje.pdf

During the band years, many college bands, amateur and
semi-professional, worked their ways through college in this manner.

Hal Kemp was discovered by Specht, who booked them on cruise lines
during the summer in the early 20's. Specht may have worked with this
band too.
 From http://www.samswansen.com/barbary.htm

"The rest of 1929-30 at Dartmouth was a musical hodgepodge. Yes, it was
a big movie year. /The Broadway Melody /was full of hit songs, including
“You Were Meant For Me.” Big bang programs were crowding the evening
hours on radio. Record buyers had a choice of “When You’re Smiling” by
gravel-voiced Louis Armstrong, “Am I Blue” by Ethel Waters, or “Moanin’
Low,” which Libby Holman sang in a new style as the first great torch
song. Nick Lucas rode lightly through “Tiptoe Through the Tulips”
(faithfully copied a generation or two later by Tiny Tim). Fats Waller
talked to his piano with “Ain’t Misbehavin’.” Rudy Vallee hypnotized the
girls with “I’m Just a Vagabond Lover.” Hoagy Carmichael’s immortal
“Stardust” got its third and best recording (even without a vocal) by
Irving Mills and his Hotsy Totsy Gang, with Miff Mole, Jimmy Dorsey, Pee
Wee Russell, and Hoagy himself on piano.

The *Barbary* *Coast* was much in evidence at party time. They starred
at the Statler during the Harvard-Dartmouth game weekend, although until
the last minute the band was touted as a prime attraction at the rival
ball at the Copley Plaza. At fall House Parties the *Coast* held forth
at Tri Kap. They were then signed for the first Green key prom in March.
Over the Christmas holiday they were picked from a large group of
Eastern college *orchestra* candidates for the nine-day West Indies
cruise of the Cunard liner /S.S. Carmania./ The band included Johnny
Hahn '30, leader, Jeff Jeffrey, George Sarles, Paul Freeman, Frank
Hodson, Frank Marks, and Gene Hammett ’33, a talented freshman sax
player who later led the band. For the Carnival Ball, the *Barbary*
*Coast* held forth in the Trophy Room at the gymnasium while Paul
*Specht* and his *orchestra* played in the cavernous gym upstairs."

--
Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. #:?)
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