Courtesy: Archeohone Records
Later this month Archeophone Records will release an invaluable new classic music anthology from famed band leader Joseph C. Smith.
Songs of the Night: Dance Recordings, 1916 – 1925 will be released Friday, July 29th via Archeophone Records. The double-disc collection, forty-seven song anthology is the first ever collection of songs from the Joseph C. Smith Orchestra. It celebrates the centennial of his first recordings and features a thirty-two page, full-color booklet with rare photos and extensive essay. Along with celebrating Smith’s first recordings, the new set also celebrates many of his other firsts, too. He was the first to record songs by Cole Porter and George Gershwin and the first to feature vocal refrains on dance records such as ‘Smiles.’ That’s not all. Smith also had the first hits of songs such as ‘Hindustan,’ ‘Rose Room,’ ‘Alice Blue Gown,’ and ‘Three O’Clock In The Morning.’ As if that isn’t enough he was also the first band leader to spotlight instrumental solos on dance records. One of the most notable of those solos came in the form of the laughing trombone on ‘Yellow Dog Blues.’ As Ryan Barna notes in the collection’s liner notes, Smith was the forbear to the likes of The Paul Whiteman Orchestra, The Dorsey Brothers, and even Glen Miller. Speaking of instrumentals, Smith’s orchestra served as the starting point for so many great instrumentalists including: trombonist Harry Raderman, xylophonists Teddy Brown and George Hamilton Green, pianists Hugo Frey, Harry Akst, and William Berge, and saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft. The full track listing for Songs of the Night: Dance Recordings, 1916 – 1925 is noted below.
CD and Digital Track List:
CD 1
- Songs of the Night
- Money Blues
- I’ve a Shooting Box in Scotland
- Havanola
- Poor Butterfly
- Allah’s Holiday
- St. Elmo
- Dance and Grow Thin
- Missouri Waltz
- Calicoco
- When You Come Back
- Smiles
- Rose Room
- Mary
- Hindustan
- Rockin’ the Boat
- Head Over Heels
- Mickey
- Dear Old Pal of Mine
- Somebody’s Sweetheart and Good Morning, Judge
- Rainy Day Blues
- Coo Coo
- The Vamp
CD 2
- Who Did It?
- Peggy
- Yellow Dog Blues
- Happy
- Lovely Summertime
- That Naughty Waltz
- Karavan
- Ching-a-Ling’s Jazz Bazaar
- Love Nest
- Alice Blue Gown
- Sally
- I Lost My Heart to You
- Why, Dear?
- It’s You
- Stealing
- Three O’Clock in the Morning
- While Miami Dreams
- Rose of Stamboul
- Where Is the Man of My Dreams
- Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
- Stella
- It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo!
- Driftwood
- I Like You Best of All
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