Maybe the first use of the word "dudes" to describe musicians, this fun little disk was waxed at Gennett Studios in December of 1924. These guys take a tune written by Jack Yellen and Maceo Pinkard and kick it around for a couple of minutes. The
"Little Ramblers" recording of this tune for Columbia has a very similar arrangement (see the Red Hot Jazz Archive for an audio sample of that) - the personnel
of this group, in fact, is probably a truncated roster of the guys who made the Columbia recording. In the kazoo break in the middle, there were two kazoo players on the Columbia disc but only one here - to my ear, it sounds like Cliff Edwards
(better known as the voice of "Jiminy Cricket" in later years), but it is likely Stan King, the drummer for the "Little Ramblers". This disk was poorly treated in its day, so some noise removal was used to bring more of the music out - with
no small degree of success.
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