Come On Baby + I'm Just In The Mood Tonight (1929) Jack Hylton with Sam Browne

COME ON BABY { 0:00 }
I’M JUST IN THE MOOD TONIGHT { 3:24 }
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra - Vocalist Sam Browne + 2 others in I’m Just In the Mood Tonight
HMV B-5708 (recorded 17 September 1929, issued November 1929)
Two jolly main-stream Jack Hylton sides such as his fans would have craved.
The HMV engineers gave Hylton heavily-modulated recordings, about which he complained. Electrola cut a different sound when he recorded in Berlin. An example is • Happy Feet + Ragamuffi... (Electrola was the second German subsidiary of the Gramophone Co Ltd. The first was the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft which was a seized British asset during WW1. The UK government seized German assets including, for example, the Lindstrom record company’s subsidiaries. Electrola was created around 1925 by the Gramophone Co to re-establish its presence in Germany. Lindstrom re-established themselves with Parlophone in the UK.)
Hylton was a big earner for HMV. This was one of three Hylton releases in November 1929.
Brian Rust does not name the two others with 31 year-old Sam in I’M JUST IN THE MOOD. I reckon I can hear Hylton and the other is, possibly, d’Amato. Born 26 March 1898 at 11 Ellen St Whitechapel, Sam was named Schmuel Braun. He was one of twelve children, eleven of whom survived. He had a stellar singing career with the likes of Hylton and Ambrose. At his peak he earned over £2000 per year. He married in 1924 but his wife died. He remarried in 1937 and (reportedly) had two daughters. In WW2 he took two bullets in the neck whilst in the dining car of the Paddington to Bristol train on his way to appear at the Hippodrome. There had been military training near the line. His star waned in the 1950s and he quit show-business around 1961. He lived a lonely impoverished old age; and even served a three-month jail sentence for stealing from the Marylebone bookie’s shop at which he worked in his late-60s. He died on 3 March 1972. (Find the Spring 2018 edition of Memory Lane for my fuller biography of Sam.)
Yes, COME ON BABY has a smaller label: 72 mm compared to the usual 85 mm. And how the shellac of the late 1920s HMVs crackles. Presumably the changed formulation saved money; but it aged badly.

[@antoniocampagnefilho5204]

beautiful fantastico de lindo

[@antoniocampagnefilho5204]

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[@rocketsurgeon5758]

Love the innuendo in your uploads lately. Or is my mind just in the gutter?

[@6dBperOctave]

Well, it's not intentional.

[@spencersmith2798]

Excellent.

[@gavinmillar7519]

I find it hard to stretch my aural imagination to HMV recordings of this period ever having noiseless surfaces - such a shame as the engineering techniques improved, for the most part those improvements missed such wonderful talented examples of pre-war popular music.

[@andreasmaier5361]

In case the record is for sale. Contact me! Or when anyone else has this record on sale. Drop me a line.

[@davidglow3]

Did you mean £20,000 per year rather than £2.000..I read somewhere that ambrose in 1936 offered sam £400 per week but he turned it down to do tour the variety stages with Elsie Carlisle

[@6dBperOctave]

I have seen newspaper reports dated 23 Nov and 2 Dec 1966 covering his prosecution for theft from his bookie employer. He was answering three theft charges totalling £5, £3 by false pretences, and false book-keeping where the discrepancies were claimed to be over £1000 (he denied it was that large). He asked for a further £120 to be taken into account. The court was told "he he had once earned £2,000 a year". He was 68 at the time of his sentencing.

[@mabel8179]

@@6dBperOctave That's very sad, considering the money he made in the 1930s. He must've been in a desperate situation.

[@phaasch]

@@mabel8179 It is sad, though not uncommon. Ambrose himself gambled away a King's ransom, particularly at the tables in Monaco, so much so, that he was unable to pay the band, and had to send Sam Browne back to London for more money! Nat Gonella also died in penury, but apparently without any regrets. Most of these guys lived for the moment. They were the rock stars of the inter-war era, though then it was more fast cars and gambling, than sex n' drugs.