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The Hot Sides 1926 - 1931

Hal Kemp and His Orchestra

The Hot Sides 1926 - 1931

Format: CD
Label: Retrieval
UPC: 0608917902525
Catnr: RTR 79025
Release date: 26 August 2011
1 CD
 
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Retrieval
UPC
0608917902525
Catalogue number
RTR 79025
Release date
26 August 2011
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About the album

In 1927, with some help from the famous Fred Waring, Kemp launched his professional career with a successful engagement at the Strand Roof in New York and a recording contract with Brunswick Records.The records were labelled as “Hal Kemp And His Orchestra” and the earlier ones often add “Formerly of The University of North Carolina”. Later, when “moonlighting” on disc for Okeh, Harmony, and Melotone, Kemp used the old Carolina Club Orchestra name, though who was fooled is open to question as the band’s distinctive sound comes over very clearly. On Banner the band became the Carolina Collegians and on Duphone, Hal’s Dixie Collegians.The emphasis on “Collegian”, plus the fact that amongst their recorded repertoire are quite a few college songs (“Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi”, “Washington And Lee Swing”, included here in a rare ton-vocal take, “Carolina” and “The Eyes Of Texas” also on this CD, and a double sided medley of “Southern College Songs”) tells us quite a lot about the image they were aiming to present, that of clean-cut, young, immaculately turned- out college boys, which is just what most of them were.

The majority of the band’s recorded repertoire consisted, as one might expect, of current popular songs . Exceptions are “Brown Sugar” and “Go, Joe, Go”, two “hot “numbers in the “Peg Leg Stomp” mould, which they negotiate with ease and panache. There are so great soloists to be found prior to October, 1929, but the precision of the ensemble work and the lithe and springy rhythm section are always a pleasure to hear. The advent of Gene “Pinky” Kintzle’s crisp guitar and banjo work in October 1929 gives an extra fillip.

[...]
The Hal Kemp Orchestra recorded little of jazz interest beyond the cut-off point of this CD.
No-one could claim that Hal Kemp’s Orchestra played, or ever thought of playing, a major role in jazz history. They belong in the same category as the bands of Ben Bernie or Ted Weems - polished dance bands that could, and did sometimes, play hot music.

But they deserve at least a footnote for introducing Bunny Berigan to recording and for giving a place to “Crazy Jack” Purvis. There is much good music to be enjoyed on this CD, certainly too good to be left gathering dust. It deserves to be heard.
In 1927, with some help from the famous Fred Waring, Kemp launched his professional career with a successful engagement at the Strand Roof in New York and a recording contract with Brunswick Records.The records were labelled as “Hal Kemp And His Orchestra” and the earlier ones often add “Formerly of The University of North Carolina”. Later, when “moonlighting” on disc for Okeh, Harmony, and Melotone, Kemp used the old Carolina Club Orchestra name, though who was fooled is open to question as the band’s distinctive sound comes over very clearly. On Banner the band became the Carolina Collegians and on Duphone, Hal’s Dixie Collegians.The emphasis on “Collegian”, plus the fact that amongst their recorded repertoire are quite a few college songs (“Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi”, “Washington And Lee Swing”, included here in a rare ton-vocal take, “Carolina” and “The Eyes Of Texas” also on this CD, and a double sided medley of “Southern College Songs”) tells us quite a lot about the image they were aiming to present, that of clean-cut, young, immaculately turned- out college boys, which is just what most of them were.

The majority of the band’s recorded repertoire consisted, as one might expect, of current popular songs . Exceptions are “Brown Sugar” and “Go, Joe, Go”, two “hot “numbers in the “Peg Leg Stomp” mould, which they negotiate with ease and panache. There are so great soloists to be found prior to October, 1929, but the precision of the ensemble work and the lithe and springy rhythm section are always a pleasure to hear. The advent of Gene “Pinky” Kintzle’s crisp guitar and banjo work in October 1929 gives an extra fillip.

[...]
The Hal Kemp Orchestra recorded little of jazz interest beyond the cut-off point of this CD.
No-one could claim that Hal Kemp’s Orchestra played, or ever thought of playing, a major role in jazz history. They belong in the same category as the bands of Ben Bernie or Ted Weems - polished dance bands that could, and did sometimes, play hot music.

But they deserve at least a footnote for introducing Bunny Berigan to recording and for giving a place to “Crazy Jack” Purvis. There is much good music to be enjoyed on this CD, certainly too good to be left gathering dust. It deserves to be heard.

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01.
Peg Leg Stomp
03:06
(Billy Meyers, Elmer Schoebel) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
02.
Blue Rhythm
03:36
Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
03.
Brown Sugar
02:43
(Harry Barris) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
04.
Go, Joe, Go
02:49
(Steve Kretzmer, Frank Signorelli) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
05.
She's A Great, Great Girl
03:02
(Harry Woods) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
06.
Lovable
02:45
(Seymour Simons, Richard Whiting, Holmes) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
07.
Oh, Baby!
03:14
(Owen Murphy) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
08.
Washington And Lee Swing
02:50
(C.A Robbins, Thornton W. Allen, M.W. Sheafe) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
09.
Step By Step, Mile By Mile - I'm Marching Home To You
03:03
(Abner Silver, Al Sherman, Al Lewis) Carolina Club Orchestra
10.
The Eyes Of Texas
03:13
Carolina Club Orchestra
11.
That's What I Call Heaven
03:02
(Alfred Solman, Geo Brown, Dale Wimbrow) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
12.
Broadway Rose
02:59
(Eugene West, Martin Fried, Otis Spencer) Dick McDonough And His Orchestra
13.
Walking With Susie
03:07
(Sidney Mitchell, Archie Gottler, Conrad) Carolina Club Orchestra
14.
That's you baby
02:49
(Sidney Mitchell, Archie Gottler, Conrad) Carolina Club Orchestra
15.
Hello baby
03:05
(Herb Magilson, Ned Washington, Michael Cleary) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
16.
Carolina
03:02
Carolina Club Orchestra
17.
How I'll Miss You - When The Summer Is Gone
02:58
(Harrison, Whilite) Carolina Club Orchestra
18.
Under A Texas Moon
03:20
(Perkins) Carolina Club Orchestra
19.
Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' Caroline
03:19
(William Henry Gardner, Caro Roma) Carolina Club Orchestra
20.
Washin' The Blues From My Soul
03:09
(Willard Robison, David Oppenheim) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
21.
She Loves Me Just The Same
02:30
(J. Paul Fogarty, Rudy Vallee) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
22.
Them there eyes
02:54
(Pinkard, William Tracey, Doris Tauber) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
23.
Whistles
02:48
(Phil Baxter) Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
24.
I Found A Million Dollar Baby - In A Five And Ten Cent Store
02:57
(Harry Warren, Billy Rose, Mort Dixon) Carolina Club Orchestra
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Joe Candullo and his Everglades Orchestra
Look Who's Here!
Fred 'Sugar' Hall & his Sugar Babies
Sweet Georgia Brown and other hot numbers
Ben Bernie & his Orchestra
The Six Jumping Jacks 1926-1930
Harry Reser

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