Desdemona202's video: Chubb-Steinberg Orch of Cincinnati: Blue Evening Blues Horsey Keep Your Tail Up Okeh 1924

Chubb-Steinberg Orchestra of Cincinnati (House band of Radio Station WLW, Chubb-Steinberg Radio and Music Store, 6th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio ) Chubb-Steinberg Orchestra of Cincinnati Art Hicks; vln, vcl, dir - Bert Allen, William Edward "Wild Bill" Davison; cnt / Frank Bamberger; tb / Otis Neirouter (aka Ray Evans), Homer Beercraft; as, cl / Jack Weber; ts, cl / Carl Chauve; bj / Jack Saatkamp; pn / Ray Fetzer; bb / Bud Ebel; dm "Blue Evening Blues" - FoxTrot Written by: Art Kahn, Vic Berton Words by: Fred Rose Published: Milton Weil Music, Chicago, Illinois - 1924 Record No. Ok 40107 Matrix No. 8633-B "Horsey! Keep Your Tail Up (Keep The Sun Out of My Eyes)" - FoxtTrot Written by: Walter Hirsch and Bert Kaplan Published: M. Witmark and Sons, New York, New York - 1924 Record No. Ok 40107 Matrix No. 8634-B Recorded April 10th, 1924 Possibly Recorded at Chubb-Steinberg Radio and Phono Store General Phonograph Corporation's Okeh "Field Unit" Mobile Studio: Ralph Peter, producer / Charles Hibbard, head engineer / Peter Decker, assistant engineer Here is a rare coupling of sides by the fantastic dance band led by violinist Art Hicks, but under the title of the Chubb-Sternberg Orchestra of Cincinnati. The band broadcast from station WLW, and was quite popular throughout the midwest. Of note is these recordings were the first to feature cornettist Wild Bill Davison, who later gained fame as one of the top horn players of the traditional jazz revival of the 1940s and 1950s. The cornet team of Bert Allen and Davison were said to have modeled themselves off of King Oliver and Louis Armstrong at the Lincoln Gardens, and their breaks and playing together are quite good. In addition to five sides for Okeh, the band cut three sides for Gennett in 1925, which are arguably hotter than these, though all seem to show the bands capability in playing hot dance music. "Blue Evening Blues" is rarely taken at such a high speed as the band does in this version. Opening with a couple of cymbal crashes, the horns, though slightly unbalanced, and violin take the verse with full force. Then, the band moves into the chorus with the saxes leading and Hicks' violin playing a pleasant countermelody. Then Allen takes a nice hot solo with plunger in a style likely influenced by Louis Panico, and bridge played by band. The banjo then plays a bridge into the C-section of the tune, played in the low register of the clarinet likely by Jack Weber. Staying in the low register, he leads the band into the chorus again with some interesting dynamic figures. The band then swings the chorus one time out with the fantastic clarity of Okeh's recording process producing a natural tone of the (very close to the recording horn) clarinet. Ray Evans and the clarinet play the bridge before the band takes it out, with a break by Allen and Davison ending it. "Horsey! Keep Your Tail Up!" is of Spike Jones fame, but the song was popular well before that comic version. The Chubb-Steinberg band give it a fine treatment, opening with their own comedy effects of a horse whinny. Then the band modulates into the verse, with heavy tenor playing by Jack Weber. The violin leads the chorus following this, then plays a short chorus of "Turkey in The Straw" with banjo accompaniment, giving Weber time to switch to his clarinet, for a melody statement of his own. After this, Art Hicks goes up to the recording horn for his comic vocal recitation of the songs lyrics. The band then plays the final chorus in full force with growls and all from the horns and a hot break from Allen at the end.