[78-L] British Jazz Albums of 1936

[Geoffrey Wheeler]

In answer to Mike Biel’s request for information on the recordings in 
the British jazz albums, here are the discs in the Classic Jazz and 21 
Years... If the listings get bolloxed up, it is a result of the 
e-mailing. Contents of Elizalde album to follow.

English Brunswick ‘Classic Swing’ Albums
Brunswick ‘Classic’ Swing Vol. I:
02200-A: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: Dipper Mouth Blues (mx. 90476A)
02200-B: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: Canal Street Blues (mx. 
90485A) (label says 90483)

02201-A King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: Mandy Lee Blues (mx. 90484A)
02201-B King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: I’m Going Away to Wear You Off 
My Mind (mx. 90485A) (label also reads 90485)

02202-A King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: Weather Bird Rag (mx. 90481A)
02202-B King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: Just Gone (mx. 90482A)

02203-A Wolverine Orchestra: The Jazz Me Blues (mx. 90361A)
02203 B Wolverine Orchestra: Big Boy (mx. 90426A)

02204-A Wolverine Orchestra: Fidgety Feet (mx. 90362A)
02204-B Wolverine Orchestra: Royal Garden Blues (mx. 90428A)

02205-A Wolverine Orchestra: Copenhagen (mx. 90360A)
02205-B Wolverine Orchestra: Tiger Rag (mx. 90468A)

02206 A Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers: Davenport Blues (mx. 90430A)
02206 B Hitch’s Happy Harmonists: Washboard Blues (mx. 90472A)

Brunswick ‘Classic’ Swing Vol. II
02207 A Sioux City Six, featuring Miff Mole: Flock O’ Blues (mx. 90432A)
02007 B Sioux City Six, featuring Bix Beiderbecke: I’m Glad (mx. 90433A)

02208-A New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Tin Roof Blues (mx. 90378A)
02208-B New Orleans Rhythm Kings: That’s A Plenty (mx. 90381A)

02209 A New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Maple Leaf Rag (mx. 90375A)
02209-B New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Clarinet Marmalade (mx. 90385A)

02210-A New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Sweet Lovin’ Man (mx. 90372A)
02210 B New Orleans Rhythm Kings: London Blues (mx. 90376A)

02211 A Friar’s Society Orchestra: Eccentric (mx. 90395A) (label reads 
90393)
02211 B Friar’s Society Orchestra: Farewell Blues (mx. 90395A) (label 
also reads 90395)

02212-A Friar’s Society Orchestra: Panama (mx. 90388A)
02212-B Friar's Society Orchestra: Tiger Rag (mx. 90389A)

02213 A Friar’s Society Orchestra: Bugle Call Rag (mx. 90391A)
02213-B Husk O’Hara’s Super Orchestra of Chicago: San (mx. 90392A)

21 Years of Swing Music
Album One consists of Brunswick catalog numbers 2500 to 2507; Album Two 
consists of numbers 2508 to 2515. The selections come from the American 
labels Aeolian-Vocalion, Brunswick, Champion, Decca, Gennett, 
Paramount, and Vocalion.

Label description. Labels on pre-War issues are the standard 3-inch 
Brunswick “shield” design with glossy black field and gold type. The 
3-inch Post-War issue labels are matte-printed with black fields and 
dull antique silver type that is less easy to read than the 
gold-on-black of the pre-War labels. Label information includes: Album 
title, number, and side number (“21 Years of Swing Music—Album One, No. 
11”); music publisher (“L. Wright Music”) or the statement “Copyright 
Control,” Brunswick catalog number and matrix number (“02505-A, 
4525/81004A”), tune title, composer credit in parentheses, group name, 
original-issue year in parentheses “(1933),”and personnel and 
instrumentation.  More often than not, the first name of an individual 
player is shown as an initial, rather than the first name spelled out 
in full. The post-War labels have a letter “B” in gothic type centered 
in a shield like a family crest above the Brunswick script logo. 
Beneath the logo in parentheses is (REGD.). On one example in the 
author’s collection, the matrix number is printed upside down 
immediately above the catalog number. The issue in question is (E) 
Brunswick 02506 by The Louisiana Rhythm Kings: “Basin Street Blues/Last 
Cent.”

Album One
02500  (No. 1) Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Reisenweber Rag (no 
composer credit)
		 (original issue: Aeolian-Vocalion 1242; dub mx. TNY 548 A) recorded 
August 17,
		1917 02500 (No. 2) Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Tiger Rag (LaRocca) 
(original
		issue: Aeolian-Vocalion 1206; dub mx. TNY 547 A) recorded November 
24, 1917

02501-A (No. 3) Wolverine Orchestra: Oh! Baby (DeSylva-Donaldson)
		 (original issue: Gennett 5453; dub mx. C90427A) recorded May 1924
02501-B (No. 4) Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers: Toddlin’ Blues 
(LaRocca-Edwards)
		(original issue: Gennett 5654; dub mx. C90431A) recorded January 1925

02502-A (No. 5) Charles Pierce and His Orch.: Jazz Me Blues  (Delaney)
		(original issue: Paramount 12640; dub mx. TNY543A) recorded March 1928
02502-B (No. 6) Louis Armstrong and His Orch [Lill’s Hot Shots]: Drop 
That Sack
		(Armstrong) (original issue: Vocalian 1037B; dub mx 1037B) recorded
		May 28, 1926

02503-A (No. 7) Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra: Sensation 
(Edwards)
		(original issue: Vocalion 1092; original master E22029) recorded 
March 19, 1927
02503-B (No. 8) Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Tishomingo Blues 
(Williams)
		(original issue: Brunswick 3987; dub mx. 3987) recorded June 5, 1928

02504-A (No. 9) Hoagy Carmichael and His Collegians: Walking the Dog 
(Brooks)
		(1928 per catalog; 1927-S per label; GE-13724 B per impression in wax 
under label)
		(original issue: Gennett 6474; original master 13724B) recorded May 
5, 1928
02504-B (No. 10) Barbecue Joe and His Hot Dogs [Wingy Mannone]: Shake 
That Thing
		 (Jackson)
		(original issue: Champion 16192; dub mx. 16950-C) recorded August 28, 
1930
02505-A (No. 11) The Cotton Pickers: Rampart Street Blues (Robinson)
		(original issue: Brunswick 4325; dub mx. 4325) recorded March 27, 1929
02505-B (No. 12) Red Nichols: Nobody Knows (And Nobody Seems to Care) 
(Berlin)
		(original issue: Brunswick 4790; original master E30538-A) recorded
		September 9, 1929

02506-A (No. 13) The Louisiana Rhythm Kings: Basin Street Blues 
(Spencer Williams)
		(original issue: Vocalion 15815; dub mx. 15815A-1) recorded June 11, 
1929
02506-B (No. 14) The Louisiana Rhythm Kings: Last Cent (Austin, Prince)
		(original issue: Vocalion 15815; dub mx. TR 15815B-1) recorded June 
11, 1929

02507-A (No. 15) Mound City Blues Blowers: What Do I Care What Somebody 
Said
		(Woods-Clare)
		(original issue: Brunswick 3484; dub mx. 3484) recorded March 1927
02507-B (No. 16) Mary Lou Williams: Drag ’Em (Williams)
		(original issue: Brunswick 7178; dub mx. TR7178) recorded circa April 
24, 1930

Album Two
Note: With the exception of 02508-A, all sides in this album are master 
pressings.

02508-A (No. 1) Luis Russell & His Orch.: Saratoga Drag (Russell, 
Walton)
		(original issue: Vocalion 1579; dub mx. B1579 A) recorded December 
13, 1930
02508-B (No. 2) The Rhythmakers: I Would Do Anything For You (Hill, 
Williams, Hopkins)
		 (original issue: Banner 32530; original master 12119 -2) recorded 
July 26, 1932

02509-A (No. 3) Don Redman and His Orchestra: It’s A Great World After 
All (Johnson-
		Redman) (original issue: Brunswick 6344; original master B11995 A) 
recorded June
		28, 1932
02509-B (No. 4) Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra: Dissonance (Mezzrow)
		 (original issue: Brunswick 7551; original master B14273 A) recorded 
November 6,
		1933

02510-A (No. 5) New Orleans Rhythm Kings: No Lovers Allowed 
(Shand-DeLange-Jones)
		(original issue: Decca 401; original master 39379A) recorded February 
20, 1935
02510-B (No. 6) Adrian Rollini and His Orchestra: Riverboat Shuffle 
(Voynow-Carmichael-
		Mills) 	(original issue: Decca 265; original master 38878A) recorded 
October 23,
		1934

02511-A (No. 7) Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra: Wild Party 
(Hudson)
		(original issue: Decca 342; original master 38723A) recorded 
September 25, 1934
02511-B (No. 8) Noble Sissle and His International Orchestra: Polka Dot 
Rag (Bechet-Sissle)
		(original issue: Decca 153; original master 9298) recorded August 15, 
1934

02512-A (No. 9) Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra: Stomp It Off (Sy 
Oliver-Jimmie
		Lunceford) (original issue: Decca 712; original master 38917A) 
recorded
		October 29, 1934
02512-B (No. 10) Casa Loma Orchestra: Royal Garden Blues (Clarence 
Williams-Spencer
		Williams) (original issue: Decca 986; original master 61154A) recorded
		June 10, 1936

02513-A (No. 11) Willie “The Lion” Smith and His Cubs: Harlem Joys 
(Smith-Bishop)
		 (original issue: Decca 7074; original master 39492A) recorded April 
2/3, 1935
02513-B (No. 12) Sharkey’s New Orleans Boys: Everybody Loves My Baby 
(Jack Palmer-
		Spencer Williams) (original issue: Decca 1014; original master 
NO-60842 A)
		 recorded March 21, 1936.
Note: The flip side of the original Decca issue is “I’m Satisfied with 
My Gal,” which Sharkey wrote and sings. Sharkey also recorded the same 
tune for ARC on October 7, 1936 (Vo 3380) as Sharkey Bonano and His 
Sharks of Rhythm. Later reissued as “A Hot Jazz Classic” on Columbia 
35678, the ARC version is a real stomper and features excellent 
drumming from Ben Pollack, who rides the rhythm with his stick work on 
a Chinese cymbal. It has been claimed that Jo Jones originated the use 
of the ride cymbal for carrying a steady beat, but Dave Tough and Ben 
Pollack were already doing this in 1936.

02514-A (No. 13) Chick Webb and His Orchestra: Go Harlem (Andy 
Razaf-Jimmy Johnson)
		(original issue: Decca 995; original master 61123) recorded June 2, 
1936
02514-B (No. 14) Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: Red Nose (Marion 
Lake-Bonnie
		 Lake)		(original issue: Decca 1049; original master 61110A) recorded 
May 18, 1936

02515-A (No. 15) Bob Crosby and His Orchestra: Gin Mill Blues (Joe 
Sullivan)
		(original issue: Decca 1170; original master 61590A) recorded 
February 8, 1937
02515-B (No. 16) Count Basie and His Orchestra: Roseland Shuffle (Count 
Basie)
		(original issue: Decca 1141; original master 61545A) recorded January 
21, 1937