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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From Ziegfeld Follies Of 1936; (I. Gershwin/V. Duke); Produced by Bernie Hanighen; Bunny Berigan, trumpet, vocal; Artie Shaw, clarinet; Forrest Crawford, tenor saxophone; Joe Bushkin, piano; Eddie Condon, guitar; Mort Stuhlmaker, string bass; Cozy Cole or Stan King, drums; Rec. New York, April 13, 1936; Vocalion 78 RPM 3225 (mx 19013-1); Originally Released 1936