Elmer Schoebel’s Midway Dance Orchestra (here under the alias Majestic Dance Orchestra). The band was so named for being a regular fixture at the Midway Gardens, a massive European-style concert garden in Chicago’s Hyde Park designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that opened in 1914.
The band recorded this exact same tune for Columbia the day before this session that was released as Columbia 33-D. I’ll post that version later today. An interesting listen to compare how the band performed the same tune 24 hours apart – and a comparison of the two Chicago recording studios.
Recorded in Chicago, Illinois on October 19, 1923.
Released as Triangle 11311 (this is take 1).
Originally released as Paramount 20273.
Credits:
Elmer Schoebel – piano, director, arranger
Murphy Steinberg – cornet
Jesse Barnes – trombone
Art Kassel, Roy Kramer – clarinet
Lou Black – banjo
Steve Brown – tuba
Bobby de Lys – drums