Banjo Buddy & Orchestra - Let's Misbehave (Cole Porter) 1928

BANJO BUDDY, Singing with Banjo & Orchestra - Let’s Misbehave, Fox-Trot (Porter), Brunswick 1928 (USA)
NOTE: Banjo Buddy was a pseudonym used in the 1920s by singer and banjoist Harold Sandelman (b. 1905 in a small town in Michigan - d. 2008). He is an almost completely forgotten artist today, despite a long life and quite successful periods in his life when he sang on stage in New York and toured the USA in the mid-1920s with Libby Holman.
This famous Cole Porter song was written in 1927 for Irene Bordoni as the female lead in Porter's first major Broadway production of „Paris”. Banjo Buddy's 1928 version is the earliest recording of the song's full lyrics. Earlier, the song with partial lyrics was a hit for Irving Aaronson and his Commanders, with partial lyrics for the Brunswick label by Scrappy Lambert, Billy Hillpot with Ben Bernie's orchestra in December 1927 and Tom Stacks with Harry Reser's band.

[@auroramacula]

that's so freaking fun!! who knew banjo and porter could match together huh? love this southern hillbilly accent too, i can just see this guy, fresh and young, going into a chicago nightclub... i wonder how they would look at him lmaoo

[@240252]

Yes, this sophisticated and chick Cole Porter hit takes on a special flavour in those hilbilly mouths. It's absolutely delightful, I agree, and thanks for pointing it out :-)

[@scottferguson325]

Beautiful Fox-trot and video. Great voice and Melody with the unmistakable sound of banjo. Thank you so much for sharing, Dear Grzegorz. Have a blessed day 🙏🙋‍♂️🍀🪕🎶🌺☀️

[@240252]

Hello Scott :-)

[@scottferguson325]

@@240252
Hello, Dear Grzegorz. Have a blessed evening and a nice night 🙋‍♂️☺️🍀🌠

[@renedescartes4623]

top !!!

[@240252]

hi :-))

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

I love roaring 1920s songs

[@240252]

:-)))

[@ivo_bozeta_1]

Beautiful years those never come back.🙄

[@240252]

a miraculous jazz age, indeed. So many geniuses, so much wonderful music

[@Tadfafty]

Not often that I find a forgotten artist that I don't even know.

[@240252]

Sometimes the decade of the Roaring Twenties seems a bottomless treasure trove to me.

[@1920sfan1]

Thank you so much for sharing this totally forgotten 20s artist! His catchy and witty rendition of this very famous tune is outstanding, I thoroughly enjoyed this.

[@240252]

It seems incredible to me that a simple boy with a banjo and a country accent, now entirely forgotten, could have created a version of this great hit to rival the famous and now classic performance by Irving Aaronson's orchestra. And so it happened.

[@1920sfan1]

@@240252 Absolutely and you couldn't have summarized it better :-)