Military Music And Banjo Solos
People entering a music store to purchase a Columbia record in 1900 would leave not with a flat disc, but a cylinder. Its content would consist of a military band instrumental (probably conducted by...
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  The first house orchestra at Harlem's legendary Cotton Club was Duke Ellington's but in 1931 the flamboyant Cab Calloway took over and rocketed to stardom with revues authored by the team of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler-white tunsemiths who captured Calloway's hip, streetwise personality with uncanny insight. This sequel to "Minnie The Moocher" has even wittier and more suggestive lyrics, and while it was banned in England, one is convinced that not only the tight-lipped British censors, but 90% of the white record-buying public, were totally unaware of its myriad narcotics references. Who says the hippies invented the drug culture?

From The Cotton Club Revue Of 1932; (T. Koehler/H. Arlen); Produced by Irving Mills; Cab Calloway, vocal, director; Edwin Swayzee, Lammar Wright, Reuben Reeves, trumpets; DePriest Wheeler, Harry White, trombones; Arville Harris, clarinet, alto saxophone; Andrew Brown, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone; Walter "Foots" Thomas, alto, tenor, baritone saxophones, flute; Benny Payne, piano; Morris White, banjo; Jimmy Smith, string bass; LeRoy Maxey, drums; Rec. New York, April 20, 1932. Brunswick 78 RPM 6321 (mx B.11725-A); Originally Released 1932