Take Your Pick + Get Going (1926) Pete Mandell with Savoy Havana Band + Savoy Orpheans

[@MikeThomas78]

I always think the gain of the Gramophone Company recordings is so high, they are nearly distorted and maybe that's what causes the congestion? Just a minor point - the other banjoist isn't Phil Spector, it's Paul Spector! Rust has mistyped the name. He's quite obscure, though - I've not seen any other references to him.

[@6dBperOctave]

I thought 'Phil Spector' sounded a bit suspicious. Being Rust, we all follow it. I have proof that the Orpheans' 2nd trumpet was not called 'Walter' Lyme. But revealing that awaits a future article about Vernon Ferry getting into Memory Lane.

[@MikeThomas78]

@@6dBperOctave The previous page in "Rust" has Spector's correct name!

[@davidglow3]

So many musicians in the dance band era were financially irresponsible..No wonder parents discouraged their offspring to ever venture into that vocation.. Gambling,drugs,booze, womanising were relatively common..Bowlly was a spendthrift,Browne,Ammy,Gonellla,Fox and many more earned truly vast sums of money but wasted it on gambling.No thought for how they would cope in old age..Are these two sides the same band,but with accidental mislabelling,l wonder??

[@6dBperOctave]

They are on separate days, and each in a session which recorded other sides, presumably issued under the relevant band's name. There is a page in Rust where he quotes Jimmy Wornell, who he had consulted in preparing the discography. JW's comment (apropos the Havana Band) was taken by Rust (see p864) to indicate that "the members of these two bands were interchangeable" (when in the studio).