Category Brian Rust Jazz Records Discography

VINTAGE RECORD PLAYLIST • Some California Ramblers Favorites (1925 – 1929)

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Original Recordings from the Mainspring Press Collection

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Personnel listings are from manager Ed Kirkeby’s surviving files. Although Brian Rust claimed to have used those files in compiling Jazz Records and The American Dance Band Discography, comparison of his error-prone personnel listings to Kirkeby’s files suggests otherwise. (Those errors were also carried over to the largely derivative Lords and Johnson & Shirley discographies, as well as many LP and CD liner notes.) .

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CALIFORNIA RAMBLERS (as Varsity Eight): Charleston

New York: May 13, 1925
Cameo 741  (mx. 1448 – C)
No personnel listing found for this session in the Kirkeby files; those in Rust’s Jazz Records and similar works are from an uncited source.

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CALIFORNIA RAMBLERS (as Golden Gate Orchestra): Sweet Man

New York, September 15, 1925
Edison 51622  (mx. 10574 – A)
No personnel listing found for this session in Kirkeby’s files; those in Rust’s Jazz Records and similar works are from an uncited source.

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CALIFORNIA RAMBLERS: Pardon the Glove

March 29, 1927
Columbia 992-D  (mx. W 143723 – 2)
Personnel per Kirkeby log: Chelsea Quealy (trumpet); Carl Loeffler (trombone); Bobby Davis, Sam Ruby (reeds); Adrian Rollini (bass saxophone); Jack Russin (piano); Tommy Felline (banjo); Herb Weil (percussion); (?) Kormwall, (?) Montgomery (unknown, presumably the second trumpet and violin).

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CALIFORNIA RAMBLERS (as Golden Gate Dance Orchestra): Zulu Wail

New York: May 27, 1927
Domino 3973  (mx. 7277 – 2)
Personnel per Kirkeby log: Chelsea Quealy, Frank Cush (trumpet); Tommy Dorsey (trombone); Bobby Davis, Sam Ruby, Bob Fallon (reeds); Adrian Rollini (bass saxophone); Jack Russin (piano); Tommy Felline (banjo); Herb Weil (percussion).

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CALIFORNIA RAMBLERS (as The Ramblers): Arkansas Blues

New York: June 24, 1927
Romeo 437  (mx. 2521 – A)
Personnel per Kirkeby log: Chelsea Quealy (trumpet); Tommy Dorsey (trombone); Bobby Davis, Sam Ruby (reeds); Adrian Rollini (bass saxophone); Jack Russin (piano); Tommy Felline (banjo); Herb Weil (percussion).

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CALIFORNIA RAMBLERS (as Golden Gate Orchestra): After You’ve Gone

New York: June 24, 1927
Pathé 36653  (mx. 107644 – )
Personnel per Kirkeby log: Chelsea Quealy (trumpet); Bobby Davis, Sam Ruby (reeds); Adrian Rollini (bass saxophone, goofus); Jack Russin (piano); Tommy Felline (banjo); Herb Weil (percussion); unidentified whistler. Mislabeled “After You’re Gone,” as is the corresponding Perfect issue.

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CALIFORNIA RAMBLERS (as The Little Ramblers): Play It, Red

New York: July 8, 1927
Columbia 1103-D  (mx. W 144444 – 2)
Personnel per Kirkeby log: Chelsea Quealy (trumpet); Bobby Davis, Sam Ruby (reeds); Adrian Rollini (bass saxophone, goofus); Jack Russin (piano); Tommy Felline (banjo); Herb Weil (percussion).

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CALIFORNIA RAMBLERS (as The Hot Air Men):

New York: May 23, 1929
Columbia 1850-D  (mx. W 148618 – 2)
Personnel per Kirkeby log: Phil Napolepon (trumpet); Carl Loeffler (trombone); Pete Pumiglio (clarinet); Chauncey Gray (piano); Ward Lay (string bass); Stan King (percussion).

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