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(Clip No. 6 Albany Dance Band= Oh! Sister Aint That Hot)

Parlophone had the contract to distribute Okeh in Britain.
The mid ‘20’s were a turning point for the industry with the introduction of Electric
recording techniques. By 1927 all new recordings were electric with a great
improvement in sound quality. Here is a million selling record produced in 1927
(Clip No. 7 Red Nichols -Ida Sweet as Apple Cider)

For those of you who are interested in jazz, that was Red Nichols and his Five

Pennies. The musicians were white, and at various times included Jimmy Dorsey,
Benny Goodman, Eddie Lang, Wingy Manone, Gene Krupa, Glen Miller, Miff Mole,
Pee Wee Russell, Jack Teagarden, Joe Venuti and others. Very often, his five pennies
were actually seven or more.

In America, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Cab Calloway were
among the black jazz stars who were also accepted by white audiences. In this

country we had dance bands, but not a lot of jazz. Jay Wilbur managed this
(Clip No. 8 Jay Wilbur-The Music goes Round and Round 1935)

His band brought on such later stars as Ted Heath.
Harry Roy’s band was jazzy and Roy occasionally played jazz piano solos.
(Clip No 9 Harry Roy-Twelfth Street Rag 1933).

For the most part, British bands would play American tunes, but without the jazz.

Judging from the number of bands in my collection, they were hugely popular, and
included The Savoy Orpheans, and the bands of Roy Fox, Ray Noble, Giraldo,
Ambrose, Jack Hylton, Lew Stone and Jack Payne amongst others.
(Clip No.10 Cecil Norman Band-Mean To Me 1929)

This was very typical of the style of many British dance bands, but actually that is a

very rare record. The makers tried to make their records unbreakable by laminating a
plasticised resin compound onto a paper core. Unfortunately the plastic embrittled
with age and delaminated. One side of my copy is only just playable. After about a
year they gave up. Also, real pop music was around
(Clip No. 11 George Formby Do-De-O-Do 1932)

The Mills Brothers in the USA issued this in 1930 and it sold a million copies.
(Clip No. 12 Mills Brothers Tiger Rag)