Bandleader Adrian Schubert, here conducting his own band under the name of "Hollywood Dance Orchestra", recorded this all-too-familiar song for the Perfect label on May 27 of 1930. Bizarre? Yes - a hotel dance orchestra performing a traditional Country fiddle tune is bizarre.
But there's some great solos tucked in between the vocal chorouses: the trumpet, bari sax, and clarinet breaks are particularly tasty. The accordion (!) solo in the beginning is not bad either - it's probably Charles Magnante, the same guy that does the solo on
"Sam The Old Accordion Man" (thanks to "Fredrik" for identifying the accordion player). Irving Kaufman is probably
leading the vocal chorouses on this recording, the trumpet-plunger could be the work of a young Mannie Klein, and the clarinet solo is probably being performed by Jimmy Dorsey - other than that, the personnel could be one of several people (see
Big Band Biographies for a complete list of possible sidemen). The surface of this record was pretty good; it hadn't been played very much, but it had some heat blisters, and noise reduction was able to tame
the static into the background and leave the music up-front.
