Charleston Craze of 1925: Yes Sir, That's My Baby - Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra

Yes Sir, That's My Baby : Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra, Vocal by C.A.Coon, Victor 1925
NOTE: I never have enough of that wonderful Kansas City dance band of the 1920s! I don't know a single recording of them, that could be called "weak" or "failed". Their music and their arrangements are an absolute heaven for every Roaring Twenties lover! Carleton Coon was a drummer and Joe Sanders was pianist. Sanders was known as "The Old Left Hander" because of his skills at baseball, but he gave the game up in the early 1920s to make dance music his career. Their orchestra began broadcasting in 1922 on channel station WDAF, which could be received throughout the United States. They took the name Nighthawks because they broadcast late at night from 11p.m. -1.00 a.m. The broadcast guaranteed them quickly the popularity and national recognition. They became so popular that Western Union set up a ticker tape between Sanders' piano and Coon's drums so the telegrams could be acknowledged during the broadcasts. Their song "Nighthawk Blues" includes the lines: "Tune right in on the radio/Grab a telegram and say 'Hello'."
In 1924 Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra left for Chicago to p[lay at The Blackhawk - an internationally known entertainment venue for the jazz band music. Two years later in 1926 they got an 11-month broadcast engagement in NYC at the Hotel New Yorker as a star attraction to induce radio stations to join the Columbia Broadcasting System. At their peak, each member of the Orchestra owned identical Cord Automobiles, each in a different color with the name of the Orchestra and the owner embossed on the rear. The Orchestra's popularity showed no signs of abating and their contract with MCA had another 15 years to run in the spring of 1932 when Carleton Coon came down with a jaw infection and died, on May 4. Joe Sanders attempted to keep the band going; however, without Coon, the public did not support them. In 1935, he formed his own group and played until the early 1940s. He died of a stroke in 1965.

[@garyflowers1311]

My late mom said her aunt my grandmother's sister was a dancer in the roaring 20's and she used to dance The Charleston!

[@user-dc1dr9kr8x]

That's beautiful......if you like stories about people doing the Charleston please look up Groucho Marx and his most famous version....happy memorial day 2023 and God bless America

[@cookieceo3938]

Great song. So happy and joyful. Love the music from the 20's.

[@artistsingerwriterproducer8288]

I too

[@1920sfan1]

One of the biggest 20's classics and still fabulous.

[@luciferofatlantis6894]

In 6 years this song will be 100 years old. Wow.

[@madkid5864]

Here we are mate, 100 years... Y aquí estamos amigo, 100 años ya...

[@Tadfafty]

​@@madkid5864 Its still 5 years.

[@gunnarthefeisty]

@@Tadfafty 3*

[@Tadfafty]

@@gunnarthefeisty Might have been end of 2020 I commented that.

[@Tadfafty]

No!!!!! YOUR WRONG! 1 year! 1 year!@@gunnarthefeisty

[@BgMsDangerus]

My heart is happy and I have a huge grin on my face. My Grandfather wouldn't let his daughters dance yet my mother taught me how to Charleston! Gramps would have had a stroke if he could have seen us dancing and giggling. We have a photo of her taken in the 20's with a waved, shingle bob hair cut and wearing a classic 20's shift dress. This upload is amazing. Thank you.

[@lxd1951]

Such a distinctive sound - just full of the joys of living. You can imagine young people of that time wanting to get up and dance when they heard it, just like young people of later generations with the dance music of their eras - and of course, most of their parents would have hated the music, which made it even more enjoyable. The trumpeter Bob Pope, was a very under-rated exponent of the 'hot' jazz style

[@georgecampbell3501]

lxd1951 --- Thanks for trumpeter info.

[@reggiekrager5411]

Finally a nice wholesome comment that doesn't bash on current generations and doesn't act like modern day culture is soulless or something from satan or smth and that the "good old days" were some kind of heaven, and realizes the obvious truth : young people were always the same, in every time, in every place, regardless of how they looked or what music they danced and listened to. And the parents and grandparents always thought the young people's music and dances were repulsive junk that couldn't even be called music and that the "young generation has no more class and morals" and that the world was gonna end when these young rascals take over. The more things change the more they stay the same.

[@singlesideman]

This is one of my very favorite songs ever. I loved it so much in the eighties when I was a teenager, and I think I love it even more now. Incredible. In every single way. It's techno, and disco, and jazz, and synthwave nostalgia, all at the same time. It's as far as I can go back while still relating to it ...

[@flyingmerkel6]

Nothing beats jazz from the 20's. Great set of pictures, too.

[@lettygarcia2476]

I heard it always with Sinatra. And Charleston is still alive! We need to let our kids, nephews and their kids, listen to this!

[@ElectricExperimentsRobert33]

Yes

[@jamesjordan5214]

One of the best bands of the 1920's. JAZZ: America's great music!

[@nevermore1043]

I will never forget my mother teaching me the Charleston to this song.

[@Bigband78]

That's an all time GREAT recording

[@michaelmurielmills5430]

I love that era the music and the fashions and so does my 3 year old grandaughter even though I have always been a real 60s rocker appreciate what a lot of fun it was for my mum born in 1907 at the time!

[@michaeljayklein500]

This song was a HUGE hit back in that day--I mean, EVERYBODY was either humming it, playing it, singing it, or dancing it. The sales of ukuleles really took off with this tune for some reason (perhaps because the chord structure of the song is catchy, but fairly easy for a novice to learn on that instrument).

[@pgronemeier]

Sorry to disagree with you, it was a 'hit', but not a HUGE hit. I'm old, and I'm not only a musician, but I'm old enough to have talked to many people that lived in the 20's(sadly, not enough though). My grandparents were born in 1896 and 1901, they had a player piano in the 20's, I collected piano rolls (over 3000 at one time), Popular songs that WE think were 'HUGE' hits back then, weren't. Example, "Five Foot Two".."Baby Face"...MOST songs that are popular now only became popular in the 40's and 50's during the 'dixieland' revival Back in the 20's a song only was popular until the next vaudeville show came into town. I'm from Chicago, I was told big names came once a year, MAYBE two. Unless a person was of 'means', MOST people didn't go out every night like we want to think. When my Grandparents went to the Aragon Ballroom, IT WAS A BIG DEAL! I had a GREAT friend b.1904, I picked his brain about music every chance I got. He remembered being at the Sunset Cafe when Louis Armstong first played. He remembered he was good. but he went there because they had great chicken dinners for cheap. WE have to remember, just in 100 yrs from now, if they talk about the 80's, not everyone listened to Madonna. Same from the 20's, WE might want to romanticize it, but it was rough. Still, ya gotta love it.

[@michaeljayklein500]

Paul Gronemeier When talking about hit songs of this period, we have to realize most people at this time still relied on the family piano or guitar for entertainment as Victrolas, etc., were still quite an expensive item for most folks. Hit songs of that time were the ones that sold the most sheet music, which this song did.

[@pgronemeier]

You may be right, but if that's the case, in my piano roll/sheet music collecting days (30+ years ago) The Prisonor's Song and 'Hawaiian' songs were the biggest sellers. LoL Same with 78's. I'd like to hear from you and others on this subject. Thanks.

[@casparpolitman]

Paul Gronemeier you are right, the average man didnt go out every evening to go to listen to hot jazz, and in the 20s most people prefered more sweet music like bob haring or nat shilkret

[@gunnarthefeisty]

@@pgronemeier That's not true at ALL! Five Foot Two AND Baby Face were HUUUUGE hits. It's easy to gauge judging by number of records and sheet music sold, as well as how many recordings of the song were made! Most of those songs were popular during the revival BECAUSE folks remembered them from the earlier years!

[@thedriedupmothonmywindowsi4618]

Seeing these pictures make my sad and nostalgic for something I never experienced. I wish I was born then instead of now.

[@jorgeguerrero6115]

Yo tenía 7 años y era el encargado de poner los discos en una victrola. Eran ritmos de charleston, música mexicana, tangos y boleros. Había que tener cuidado con la cuerda que siempre se cortaba. Pero en las fiestas familiares todos bailaban. Mi mamá bailaba tangos conmigo. Eran unas fiestas de familia muy entretenidas.

[@catlover34fl]

Oh Boy! Hot music! Let's Charleston all night long!

[@thomashogan16]

I can play this on my piano. Anybody for a banjo and a mandolin to back me up? Isn't this the best?!

[@numberoneson1]

Proper music that still get your feet tapping.

[@motime8552]

2019!!! Still topping charts!!! Thanks for sharing!! Love it.. God what happen to music today!

[@Gunnercv]

I like the way the vocals come in

[@mazzyvictor]

My maternal grandmother told me the first time she heard a radio was in 1927 (She was 28 years old). It was being displayed at an exhibition hall and people were amazed and wanted one, even though thry didn't have electricity in the house. She bought me my own personal TRANSISTOR (battery-powered with an earphone included!)radio, encased in a leather carrying case with a strap for my 8th birthday in 1966 and my dad chewed my out when I broke it the same day I got it while riding downhill in a Radio Flyer wagon with my "good-for-nothing" friends as my mother would call them. As a habit, I turn on the radio when I get up in the morning, not realizing this was not possible to do until the 1920's. P.S. She didn't have a TV until the late 1950's and it was Black and White! Man, am I spoiled! Boo-boo-pee-doo! :^)

[@bill3murr]

THIS GROUP IS AN ALL TIME FAVORITE....LOVE 'EM, AND THEY ORIGINATED RIGHT ACROSS THE STATE FROM MY HOME TOWN....ST. LOUIS, MO. WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE TO SEE AND HERE THEM... BUT THIS IS THE NEXT BEST THING...THIS IS ALSO THE BEST VERSION OF THIS TUNE. THANK YOU.

[@valdiruliana1047]

Espetacular essa versão. Charleston autentico.

[@KennyBeechmountLarsen]

My mother used to love dancing the charleston

[@ernestogiaretta6015]

Charleston, la voglia di vivere, la gioia di vivere...

[@petertaylor3600]

Was a time, about 20 years ago or more, that the ABC had a programme on Sat. night called Sentimental Journey, in which all these kinds of things were played. I wouldn't miss it for anything or anyone. But, some twit decided nobody wanted to hear it anymore and took it off. I still miss it.

[@bobbywimsy6741]

Peter Taylor Sounds like something Joe Franklin did on TV in 70s and 80s out of NYC

[@Pagali24]

Over the past 3 years I liked this band more and more. I can't really tell why. I know that a good portion of their songs were just popular tunes of their time -- written by others and recorded by several famous performers -- sometimes even in the same year the CS Orch. recorded the song in question. But I always find myself liking their -- sometimes wonderfully hilarious -- arrangments the best. Whenever I hear 'em it cheers me up.

[@eandsm4620]

Such a fun song! Thanks for posting!

[@TheIrishrogue68]

Best band of the 1920s....

[@martialcamara9504]

Minha avó adorava dançar Charleston, quando nova!

[@bergy-62]

love this song and the video...great timepiece

[@VirginieDP]

Sounds like in a way, it was a time when people were happier than nowadays . Loving it !

[@clarenceboggs2406]

VirginieDP yes, they didn’t have the PC culture

[@orangepulp392]

@@clarenceboggs2406 I'm sure black people absolutely loved 1920s America.

[@orangepulp392]

@Robert Gardea read a history book

[@idstayaway9992]

orange pulp he was being sarcastic dumb ass

[@orangepulp392]

@ObjectivelyInoffensiveUsername you may be empathy deficient for your fellow human but alot of people aren't

[@LinCEllis]

Thanks so much for having this here,I've loved it for decades!

[@luky2861]

I'm only 15 years old but I really love it!

[@christopherfattibene7296]

I can't get enough of this music!

[@johnwhitehead3360]

Brilliant _ Thank You

[@mainaccount131]

Very good music with excellent photos

[@sa21g22g23]

I love ❤ this music

[@ernestoconchaopazoconchaop6171]

Un homenaje a todas nuestras abuelas hermosas y maravillosas.Me saco El Sombrero , desfe Chile.

[@grapiken7766]

I love the Charleston! It's full of style and exuberance that encapsulates a bygone era. You'd think that Charleston in South Carolina would try and capitalise on its history

[@mainaccount131]

Super excellent with very good interesting photos

[@bobbywimsy6741]

Better capitalize on that than the start of the Civil War, agree wholeheartedly.

[@auletjohnast03638]

Gra Piken, I like the black botton dance too.

[@osocool1too]

My dad Samuel was 19 when this was recorded...he loved to dance the Charleston and other up-tempo fox trot styles. 👍

[@luismantaras6460]

I had this 78 and all the recordings of this very distinctive dance orchestra in two 90 minutes cassettes. I was very fond of it and you can distinguish from all the other from the first bars. Thank you again.

[@kacema7048]

This is my favourite version!!

[@meh8982]

Great recording, and the pictures are fantastic! Thanks!

[@maureen1938]

SUPER.....Thanks for posting this delightful video.

[@kpo1870]

It was happened in Feb.14th,1929(Thursday),at 10:30 A.M in the garage of SMC Shipping Agency, 23 North Clark Street, Chicago.Two shot-guns and two machineguns were all fired in a burst of shots with the accompaniment of this song which was streamed from the radio of neighbour apartment.

[@beautyworld9213]

I love that style so much! Music, dance - everything is super. What a pity I can't find women's shoes like those in 1920s

[@marypalmer00]

ITS SO GOOD. cant stop dancing

[@johnwhitehead3360]

Simply Wonderful - Thank You

[@joracyboemer3362]

O Charleston tinha seu próprio charme, é uma pena que deixou de ser tocado, acredito que voltaria a ter sucesso, se o fizessem...

[@flaviaprado5758]

Música boa não fica velha!!!! :)

[@mobilechief]

My Grandmother taught me that in the 80s and still could do the best down, Lol!

[@62M.St.]

The cat's meow, Watson! Cheers, '62 Mathew St. (Total Retro Rock)

[@elifernandez1507]

Charleston bonito baile qué bien lo pasaba la gente en a quella época y qué vestidos tan bonitos 🍀🌻🌼🌷🌹🌿🕊

[@kacema70]

yes sir, this song makes my day!!! :)

[@dick12235]

Yes Sir: This is the Best "That's My Baby" on U-Tube. Thanks for posting.

[@richardmoon1852]

Thanks again for this treat.

[@PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

This really is a wonderful video which encapsulates the dance of 1920s-30s. So glad that it was linked to an article on the subject.

[@croonyerzoonyer]

More 20’s than 30’s.

[@user-eq2dx6un4t]

Отменно ! Респект !! :)

[@toompyfloyd4074]

"and for all our friends listening in on channel itchy knee" gotta love ol' Spike

[@antoniogonzales4024]

Uhhh aquellos tiempos cuando mis abuelos eran jovenes cuando mis papás ni nacian

[@roberthelmich3264]

I could listen to this all day long, sure glad someone put this on utub

[@johnwhitehead3360]

Loved it Thanks for posting

[@haleyfrere9671]

my grandmother was born in 1920 love the 20ies

[@johnwhitehead3360]

I was conceived in the Roaring Twenties!

[@doofsdoofs]

HOW OLD ARE YOU?

[@lilaabrown1904]

Love this! ❤️

[@Senoncifossimonoi.....]

Bellissima.... Anni duri Anni ruggenti Anni grintosi Anni della depressione ma la gente non stava depressa... Grandissimi!!!!

[@mainaccount131]

Excellent

[@RJ-uu3ph]

the year my parents met. they met at a dance hall were they were paired together and danced to this and a few months later they were married

[@bobbywimsy6741]

RJ1936 They cane together like 2 taxis on Broadway(Thelma Ritter line, Hitchcock's Rear Window, 1954)

[@jourwalis-8875]

Wonderful! I love this! Thank´s for uploading!

[@eduardomorales4092]

Es muy alegre el Charleston y aquí está bien interpretado

[@leonblum7898]

TOTALMENTE DE ACUERDO,''DESDE ''MI BUENOS AIRES--ARGENTINA

[@davidcarson4421]

A band with this name played at the University of Iowa in late ‘40s. My memory of them is that they had a bubble machine.

[@richardmoon1852]

Thanks again

[@veronicapurple2647]

Nice Artistry

[@albabejarano6528]

I love it!

[@edwil83]

I wish I had lived in the 20's even without today's hardware.

[@jilltierney8100]

+Edward Wilcock --I agree!

[@michaelpreston233]

Snappy tunes back in the day.These kids now couldn't keep up with those real moves!

[@mainaccount131]

Super excellent with very good interesting photos

[@agathavercotti]

I wish I had lived back then

[@captaincontent3244]

Except for the lack of novocain, air conditioning, and cures for disease I agree, it'd be a great time to live in. :)

[@miclazy-5m]

CaptainContent yes coz u NEED air conditioning to survive

[@foreverseethe]

I don't. -Black Guy

[@Kenulas]

same, i would throw away all this technology to live back in the 40s

[@madturklad]

I dont, -someone who had pneumonia

[@michaelwatkins1702]

This a very early electrical recording and, despite the surface noise has a very full sound with good high frequencies and lows that the acoustical recordings of just the previous year could not achieve.

[@aldiakaroofus]

I strongly feel that the invention of electrical recording is the most important progress in the history of recorded sound.

[@davidlogansr8007]

Michael Watkins I think I read somewhere. That 18690 was one of, or The first regular issue electrical discs. I wonder if they recorded any acoustical discs just to keep their hands in after that? Heard a few that sound like it!

[@NuisanceMan]

@@aldiakaroofus Yes... with the possible exception of the invention of ANY kind of recording!

[@Credenza1925]

I think that the first Electrical Recording was made by Victor on February 16th, 1925 And hold it for a bit to sale the overstock of the Acoustic Machines and records. Until the new Credenza Orthophonic Phonograph appears to the public on November of the same year...

[@ptm51]

Great,better,best!! Thanks

[@lindawhitburn7091]

I love it and all music from that era 👌my grandads would’ve been teenagers ,nans only girls of 10😉

[@fridafan1]

if that doesn't make you feel like dancing, I don't know what will!

[@bobbywimsy6741]

fridafan1 for one thing, Trumpius in Bellevue- or Sing Sing.Why then we can all sing sing- and dance the Charleston

[@bobbywimsy6741]

fridafan1 I am your fan, sigh.

[@mainaccount131]

Delightful melodies with interesting photos

[@phillipecook3227]

People talk about the impact rock n roll must've made in the 1950s which would've been startling to radio audiences used to Perry Como, Frankie Laine etc and the tail end of the big band era ......but this stuff? Would've exploded like a bomb in the 1920s.

[@gunnarthefeisty]

Yes, jazz fairly broke the market in 1923 and 24 when it first got popular.

[@heberlunadiaz8174]

muy buena musica gracias amiga o amigo por aver por este video

[@richarddowney1972]

Coon-Sanders Nighthawks is the best of all white jazz bands of that period. At least I think so.

[@gunnarthefeisty]

One of the best. I still think Roger Wolfe Kahn wins

[@dick12235]

Great Posting. Thanks.

[@ArcherOO78]

Love it !

[@JyotiB70045]

Great, great, thanks!

[@valeriyblinov1573]

Beautiful! Super!

[@artistsingerwriterproducer8288]

Regards, I Love this Style of music

[@joybreeden366]

Kool...yes sir!

[@thewhale5416]

Lovely🌟

[@Michel8665]

Cela tombe bien , je suis un fan du charleston !!! Merci bien.........Michel.

[@bryanharrison7847]

Michel8665

[@knapsuck]

love it cant get enough- takes me away to a nice place in my mind.

[@stevenrichards3699]

POO POOPTY DO! NICE SONG AND PICTURES!

[@janettewalker3991]

Inspired choice of illustrations, thanks for a great record G. Such a fine orchestra.

[@bobbywimsy6741]

Janette Walker Yes Sir Trumps a baby, No sir, don't mean maybe...

[@Bigband78]

Janette,Happy Valentines Day

[@AnkyPank]

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

[@vpo2g2]

They should open each session of Congress with this. Things would get done.

[@georgecampbell3501]

vpo2g2 -- Lol.

[@hollyodell2916]

vpo2g2 🤣

[@bobbywimsy6741]

Possibly, but with McConnell, well, he won't dance, don't ask him. Somebody, I say somebody, should get Senator Claghorne in their, or Col. Sanders, to lead that one off , finally, to an old Kentucky home, for the immoveables. And to think he believes in welfare, corporate, that is!

[@johnwhitehead3360]

Great Fun

[@mainaccount131]

Delightful