“Pink Elephants” by Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang’s Blue Five on a UK-only release that was recorded on February 14, 1933 and released as Columbia CB 601.
This one is pretty special – as California Ramblers frontman Adrian Rollini joins in on four instruments: bass sax, vibes, piano, and the infamous goofus. Jimmy Dorsey, not to be outdone, can be heard on clarinet, alto sax, and trumpet (listen to the last ten seconds of the second clip)!
Venuti takes a short solo at the end and Lang just rips up the rhythm throughout. Tragically – a little over a month later, Lang would die in the hospital of complications during a tonsillectomy operation.
My copy is quite clean – but suffers from blasting and noticeable distortion on louder transients.
Credits:
Joe Venuti – violin
Eddie Lang – guitar
Adrian Rollini – bass sax, vibes, goofus, piano
Jimmy Dorsey – clarinet, alto sax, trumpet
Phil Wall – piano