"My Blue Ridge Mountain Home"

by Charles Kaley and his Orchestra

Kaley had sung with the Abe Lyman orchestra, and somewhere around June of 1926 departed from that band to form his own group. This was it - a commercial band, more along the lines of an East Coast Hotel dance orchestra, but some jazz sensibility managed to squeeze in. This was recorded for Columbia in Chicago on March 28 of 1928. The song was written by Carson Robison, who recorded the song several times with Vernon Dalhart (his frequent cohort). The surface was a little bit crackly, but that cleaned up with applied noise reduction.
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