Row, Row, Rosie! + Collegiate (1925) Earl Gresh & his Gangplank Orchestra + Ben Selvin

ROW ROW ROSIE! { 0:00 }
Earl Gresh and his Gangplank Orchestra
originally US Columbia 424-D (recorded 30 June 1925)
COLLEGIATE { 2:44 }
Ben Selvin and his Orchestra
originally US Columbia 391-D (recorded 26 May 1925)
The Denza Dance Band
UK Columbia 3743 (issued October 1925)
The task of inventing pseudonyms at Columbia in London fell to Herbert Ridout. He truncated the musical term cadenza, and created the Denza Dance Band. It somewhat annoyed a solo classical musician whose surname happened to be Denza.
Earl Parker Gresh was born in Ohio in 1894. He played violin and was in one of Paul Whiteman’s touring bands. His Gangplank Orchestra is named after the nightspot and speakeasy, the Gangplank, built in St Petersburg Florida in 1924. In 1924 the band cut two test sides for Victor; from 1925 to 1927 twelve sides for Columbia, of which ten were issued; and in 1927 two sides for Pathé. Gresh continued as a band leader in Florida and then became a craft woodworker, running a ‘wood novelty’ business ‘wholesale and retail’. He died in St Petersburg Florida in 1977.
COLLEGIATE suffers badly from broadband, low frequency noise - worse at the rim than the centre - so this transcription is rather bass-light. At 5:00 there is a very characteristic Selvin sound from this time.
Both recordings are from the early weeks of electrical recording by Columbia in the US.

[@markfisher2121]

What a peppy Rosie 🎶 and I'm wild for these American College tunes 💐 this one is among the best 🌼 I thank You very much 🌺 Mark

[@6dBperOctave]

Earl Gresh & his Gangplank Orchestra are new to me. I like to hear these lesser-known US bands.

[@truthray2885]

So the "DDB" and "EG & HGO" are.....one and the same?

[@6dBperOctave]

As explained in the text, there was no Denza Dance Band. It was a pseudonym used by UK Columbia who, for some reason, did not use the name of the real band when they pressed records from metals supplied by US Columbia. The DDB was applied to many well-known US dance bands - and, strangely, there were UK Columbia records where those US dance bands got their names on the label!