"Keep on Dancing" Selections by Billy Wynne's Greenwich Village Orchestra (1924-1926)

“Keep on Dancing” Selections by Billy Wynne’s Greenwich Village Orchestra (1924-1926) Edison Recordings 1. I Want to Be Happy [0:00] 2. Keep on Dancing [3:31] 3. Not Now-Not Yet-But Soon [6:59] 4. Peter Pan (I Love You) [10:51] 5. The Only, Only One [14:20] 6. Blue Eyed Sally [18:07] 7. Titina [22:00] 8. Yearning (Just For You) [25:23] 9. When My Sugar Walks Down the Street [28:53] 10. Steppin’ in Society [32:28] 11. Say Arabella [36:40] 12. Charleston Baby O’ Mine - A [40:05] 13. Charleston Baby O’ Mine - B [43:40] 14. Somebody's Crazy About You - B [47:14] 15. Somebody's Crazy About You - C [50:53] 16. Nantucket Nan [54:29] 17. Everything’s Gonna Be All Right [58:10] Pathe Recordings 18. If You Can’t Hold the Man You Love (Don’t Cry When He’s Gone) [1:01:56] 19. Dorothy [1:04:50] 20. No Fooling [1:07:35] Transferred with 3.0 lateral styli in VM670SP cartridge and 3.0 lateral and vertical styli in VM95SP cartridges via Audiotechnica AT-LP120. Discs from Colin Hancock Collection and the University of California Santa Barbara (track 9). Declicked and given light EQ by Colin Hancock. Discographical and Historical Info from Brian Rust’s “American Dance Band Discography,” Johnson and Shirley’s “American Dance Bands,” DAHR, the August 1969 issue of Record Research with Woody Backensto, Colin Hancock, and Javier Soria Laso. Special thanks to Christopher Smith for helping me acquire a copy of “The Only, Only One.” New York supper club bandleader and drummer Billy Wynne led a fine and snappy hot dance orchestra through much of the 1920s. Though this band varied in size, he usually employed enough musicians to form a 10 or 11 piece dance orchestra on his recording sessions for Edison, Pathe, and Harmony between 1924 and 1926. To fill up the band he hired musicians like Red Nichols, Julius Berkin, Hymie Farberman, Earl Oliver, and Jules Nassberg, all of whom were among the top white dance band musicians of that era. This set of 20 recordings highlights many of the finest sides this band recorded, including 15 beautiful Edisons (and 2 intriguing alternate takes). Red Nichols shines as a soloist on several sides such as “Keep On Dancing,” “Say Arabella,” “Charleston Baby O’ Mine” (I’m partial to take B, despite A’s woodblock behind the solo), “Somebody’s Crazy About You,” “Not Now-Not Yet But Soon,” and “When My Sugar Walks Down the Street.”