VINTAGE RECORD PLAYLIST • Some Little English Hotties (1928 – 1931)

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Some Little English Hotties (1928 – 1931)

Cut-rate seven- and eight-inch records were all the rage in England in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Many were fine-groove recordings that ran nearly as long as standard ten-inch discs and for the most part were surprisingly well-recorded. Real jazz was rarely to be found, but there were plenty of uptempo arrangements and the occasional hot solo, as these examples show.

Recording dates and pseudonym-unmasking are from British Dance Bands on Records (Brian Rust & Sandy Forbes, 1987). Although seemingly on safer ground here than in his American Dance Band Discography, Rust as usual didn’t cite his sources, so we can’t vouch for the accuracy of this data.

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HARRY HUDSON’S MELODY MEN: How Long Has This Been Going On?  (E)

London: April 20, 1928
Edison Bell Radio 849  (mx. 88114)

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HARRY HUDSON’S MELODY MEN: It Don’t Do Nothin’ But Rain  (E)

London: April 20, 1928
Edison Bell Radio 849  (mx. 88115)

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ALFREDO & HIS BAND: Singapore Sorrows  (EE+)

London: c. July 25, 1928
Edison Bell Radio 876  (mx.88188)

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ORIGINAL HAVANA BAND (“Late of the Savoy Hotel”): She’s a Great, Great Girl  (EE–)

London: c. October 16, 1928
Broadcast 305  (mx. Z 665)

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[PETE MANDELL’S] RHYTHM MASTERS: You Baby Me – I’ll Baby You  (E)

London: March 22, 1930
Victory 209  (mx. 889 – 2)

A song from the film, “The Girl from Woolworth’s,” which not-so-coincidentally was the chain-store for which Victory records were made.

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HARRY HUDSON’S MELODY MEN (as The Plaza Band): Come On, Baby  (E)

London: c. January 2, 1930
Edison Bell Radio 1307  (mx. 89667)

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HARRY HUDSON’S MELODY MEN (as Radio Melody Boys): ’Leven-Thirty Saturday Night  (E)

London: c. May 6, 1930
Edison Bell Radio 1345   (mx. 89770)

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JAY WILBUR & HIS BAND (as The Connecticut Collegians): Sunday, Next Sunday  (E)

London: April 3, 1931
Eclipse 23  (mx. JW-181 – 2)

 

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JUST ADDED: EDISON CYLINDERS (Complete American Issues, 1897–1930)

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