Roaring 20s: Gus Arnheim & His Ambassador Hotel Cocoanut Grove Orch. - If I Can't Have You, 1928
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- Gus Arnheim and His Ambassador Hotel Cocoanut Grove Orchestra - If Can’t Have You (I Want To Be Lonesome, I Want To Be Blue) Fox-Trot (Donaldson) with Vocal Trio, Parlophone 1928 (British product; Rec. in USA)
NOTE: Gus ARNHEIM (b. 1897 in Philadelphia, PA - d. 1955 in Los Angeles, CA) - American dance bandleader active between the 1920s and 1940s and songwriter ("I Cried For You", "Sweet and Lovely", "One Kiss"; "It Might Have Been You"). His dance band launched or helped develop the careers of many artists, the most famous being Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo, Woody Herman or Stan Kenton. In the 1920s and early 1930s, Arnheim had the most popular band on the West Coast, based in the trendy Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles. His long stay at Cocoanut Grove made his name synonymous with the club.
Arnheim made his professional debut in the mid-1920s leading a band, The Syncopated Five, with Abe Lyman, the drummer, who later led his own dance orchestra. In 1927, Arnheim's band signed with the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles as the Cocoanut Grove Orchestra. In 1929, this group embarked on its first European tour, causing a sensation in Paris and London. Early in the next decade, Arnheim hired the Rhythm Boys, a trio of singers he had heard working with Paul Whiteman's orchestra, and had Bing Crosby record his first solo hit, "I Surrender Dear". In the 1930s, riding the rising tide of the big band style, where a more swinging rhythmic style was taking hold, Arnheim modernized his orchestra to become, by the end of the decade, the resident orchestra of Chicago's Congress Casino. After World War II, Arnheim retired from the big band business. He died of a heart attack while writing a new song in his Beverly Hills home.The slideshow features some views of the “glamour life” in California during the heyday of Gus Arnheim's Cocoanut Grove band.
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Dziękuję i miłego weekendu :-)
This is a truly delightful, uptempo version of this nostalgic song, by the Arnheim Orchestra in its best years. I loved this, and it is a typical example of a cheerful melody combined with sad lyrics. The orchestral solo work was fabulous. Thank you so much for sharing!
Great video and Fox-trot. Beautiful rhythm and sound. Thanks always for sharing, Dear Grzegorz, have a blessed day 🙏🙋♂️🍀🎺🎵🌺☀️
Thank you Scott for your as usual so friendly note. Have a great weekend.
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Thanks always to you, Dear Grzegorz. It's a pleasure for me. Have a Great weekend you too 🙏🙋♂️🍀🎼🌺✨
Sweet sweet sweet...
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Marvellous!
I love this tune too. One more good old Walter Donaldson!
Witam P.Grzegorzu cieplutko 🌹 No i znowu pięknie ,rytmicznie i nostalgicznie 🍂 Pozdrawiam 😊
Tamte amerykańskie orkiestry z lat sprzed swingu mają swój niepowtarzalny urok. I te przebogate aranżacje! Pozdrawiam :-)
@@240252 Tak to prawda. Wole niemieckie jednak. Dzieki !
Awesome record
I am not 100% sure whether tis recordind was cut in USA or in Londow. The Arnheim's orchestra had then the European tour. And the arrangement odf this tune (a slower tempo|) differs from the rendition recorded by Arnheim's band for the American Vitaphone movie.
I am somewhat sure this was recorded in the USA because from what I've seen, this was originally released on Okeh with feeling good on the other side which is great sound in itself
This is a nice slowed tempo compared to the same version in the Gus Arnheim vitaphone short that I've watched many times over, always a joy to watch.
You mean the one with Russ Columbo singing in a trio? ua-cam.com/video/iamSYSpVmwE/v-deo.html Yes, it's really a sweet and sophisticated clip and the tempo is a little faster, indeed. And what a fun to see whole Arnheim's band play in a live recording!
Exactly, I like the whole band Vitaphone shorts so much because it's amazing to see the bands behind the records in action. Or any live film of a band.
@@alco1252 I second your admiration for those old vitaphone movies. We can only regret that so few of them were made.
I wonder what "Feminine conditioning" on the side of the Ambassador Hotel was supposed to mean.
In an old Polish dictionary I found 'conditioning' as: "to season grain before milling it into flour or before processing it into porridge". Admittedly, this has little to do with preparing ladies for sunbathing and swimming, although it can be considered that in general it could have meant 'preparing women for [any kind of a ] further processing'.
The allusiveness and politeness of the phrase reminds me of a notice I found years ago above one of the toilets in a pub in London. It said gently: "ladies, please remain seated during the whole performance". 😧
Is this the same orchestra belonging to the Cocoanut Grove club that burned down in Boston, Massachusetts, USA in the 40's? My Grandmother used to tell me about it all the time!
She said a lot of the decorations in there were papier-mâché and the place went up like a tinderbox. People died!
No, the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston was a different story. It took place some time in 1942, caused by the electricity shock and the flammable gas used in the AC installations (freon was then not available because of wartime limitations). The fire spread within seconds across the highly decorated dance halls and bars full of plastic furniture, artificial palms etc. The exit doors were locked to prevent unauthorised entry. About 500 people died. As far as I know, the Arnheim's orchestra was never contracted in that club.
The Arnheim band was contracted to the Coconut Grove Night Club inside the Ambassador Hotel of which another famous band leader, Abe Lyman held residency at till 1927.
@@alco1252 I'm afraid we are talking about TWO Cocoanut Grove clubs in one time. One (the original) was located in Los Angeles, it's where the Arnheim's orchestra played and it was not burnt. The other was also named Cocoanut Grove club but it was located in Boston and was destroyed by the fire in the 1940s. Gus Arnheim never played there.
My mistake, I forgot to mention that
@@240252 Thanks!