[78-L] Dance lessons

[David Lennick]

Ken McComber it is (without the "a").

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> I may have already mentioned these,  but I have a little run of Arthur 
> Murray dance lesson records on Buff Bluebird from October of 1934.  I'm sure 
> David can remind me of the band,  although they receive no label credit.  I 
> think it might be directed by Ken MacComber,  a very capable arranger of 
> stocks as far back as the 20s.  I think he also wrote for Ben Bernie.
> 
> The band on these is pretty jazzy and they play all kinds of strange tunes 
> to illustrate the different dance steps.
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Happy Birthday to You
> 
> 
>> Yippee for discographies with title indexes! I've certainly never heard of 
>> this
>> band..Ray Nichols & His Four Towers Orchestra, BB 5921.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>> Julian's post reminded me of a very cool record I have of  Happy Birthday 
>>> to
>>> You on a Buff Bluebird,  from 1934 or 35.
>>>
>>> Can't recall the band but it's either one of the studio groups (Berwick,
>>> Peltyn) or some minor group,  and they play several choruses of the damn
>>> thing in almost every tempo you could think of...waltz,  tango,  fox 
>>> trot,
>>> march,  rumba...great record!  Little bit of actual jazz on it,  too.
>>>
>>> Can anyone remind me who the artist is?  I'd like to dig it out and play 
>>> it
>>> and am so backwards that I just have my records alphabetical,  not on a
>>> computer list.
>>>
>>> Taylor
>>>