Jazz Age 1929: Jean Goldkette & His Orch. - Ya' Comin' Up Tonight, Huh?

Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra - Ya' Comin' Up Tonight, Huh? Fox-Trot from F.B.O. picture „Gang War” (Sherman-Lewis-Lyman) Vocal refrain by Wynken-Blynken-Nod, Victor 1929 (USA)
NOTES:
1. Jean GOLDKETTE (b. 1899 in Valenciennes, France - d. 1962 in Santa Barbara, CA) American classical & jazz pianist and dance orchestra leader who was born in France, grew up in Greece and attended school in Russia before his family emigrated to the US in 1911. As a teenager, Jean played in popular dance bands in the Chicago area, including the famous Benson Orchestra of Chicago. In later years he led several jazz and dance orchestras, the most famous of which was the one he led from 1924 to 1929, which featured such well-known musicians as Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy & Tommy Dorseys, Eddie Lang, Frankie Trumbauer, Joe Venuti, Pee Wee Hunt, Don Murray and many others. Music critics wrote of the glory years that in the late 1920s Jean Golkdkette's orchestra was "undoubtedly the best in the world." However, in 1927, Paul Whiteman - the self-proclaimed "King of Jazz" - hired most of Goldkette's better players, as Goldkette was unable to meet the salary demands of his musicians for some time. Goldkette moved to Detroit, where he rented a thriving ballroom which became the basis of a business empire operating as an agency for twenty orchestras and many dance halls. He started his own entertainment group "Jean Goldkette's Orchestras and Attractions," while working at the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, and helped organize McKinney's Cotton Pickers and Glen Gray's Orange Blossoms, which became known as the Casa Loma Orchestra. After the Great Depression, Goldkette left jazz to work as a booking agent and classical pianist. He organized the American Symphony Orchestra in 1939, and also performed as a concert pianist in the 1950s.
2. WYNKEN-BLYNKEN-NOD is the nickname of a trio of uncredited singers. The name comes from a 19th-century English children's poem about three little kids dreaming of sailing in a ship made of a wooden shoe.

[@NW_DANIEL]

Such nice voices they had!

[@240252]

Two girls and a man, like the Keller sisters who were, hovewer, much more jazzy that that. I never came across any other recording of this trio.

[@mainaccount131]

Delightful

[@Tommy-hp5ij]

Your presentation with accompanying historical notes very interesting and appreciated. Thanks again!

[@240252]

Thank you, regards :-)

[@Tadfafty]

Now this is lovely.

[@Tadfafty]

And creepy.

[@spencersmith2798]

Goldkette’s band was one of the very best in the 1920’s…tremendous talent filled the musicians’ ranks as well.

[@240252]

And what fantastic arrangements he has! Thank you :-)

[@danutakrzywda]

Wyjątkowo ładny utwór lat dwudziestych..

[@240252]

Zabawny, o miłości jak zwykle. No bo o czym tu innym śpiewać?

[@MikeThomas78]

According to the dance band discography, the vocalists are Greta Woodson, Gertrude Matthews & Lucile Matthews, with spoken comments by Harold Stokes.

[@240252]

Thank you so much for the information!

[@scottferguson325]

I always say that 1929 was an incredible year. It marked the end of an Era and the Great Depression took everything away, but the greatest things about the Roaring Twenties found their most concrete expression in that year. Thanks for sharing, Dear Grzegorz. Have a blessed new week 🙏🙋‍♂️☺️🍀🎷🎶🌺✨

[@240252]

You are right, 1929 was an exceptional year. Like a swan's song before catastrophe.

[@scottferguson325]

@@240252 Hello, Dear Grzegorz. Good morning to you. You're absolutely right. I wish you a wonderful day 👍🙏🙋‍♂️🍀☕🎼☀️

[@1920sfan1]

Goldkette's style is easily recognizable in this fabulous performance deserving superlatives in every possible way. I absolutely loved this, thank you very much for sharing!

[@240252]

Yes, the inmstrumantation and arrangement are outstanding! What a great talent he was. Perhaps the Greatest among bandleaderes of his time.

[@BaltoJoey]

Sadly, this is a "lost" film. :-(

[@stormythelowcountrykitty7147]

First!

[@240252]

:-)))