I’ve been looking through the excellent scholarship of Javier Soria Laso (JSLas2) on archive.org and came across his discography of William Conrad Polla’s Clover Gardens Orchestra. I immediately dug out some PCFO records and gave them a fresh listen!
JSL – with prompting from a Dave Lomax comment from an old Storyville magazine – thinks that some of the players from the Georgia Melodians may be performing on this record.
While the Clover Gardens Ballroom may seem like small potatoes compared to more popular and well-known venues, orchestras who took up residence there were well-paid. Ambrose’s Orchestra – led by British bandleader Benjamin Ambrose – an outfit with 25 performers – made $2,800 a week playing there in fall of 1922. That’s the equivalent of around $52K a week today.
“Too Tired” is a peppy little number (thankfully with omitted lyrics in this instrumental version) featuring many hot solos and breaks.
0:00 Intro
0:47 trumpet solo
1:05 sax solo
1:40 banjo/trumpet duet
2:17 muted trumpet solo
2:33 trombone solo
2:42 muted trumpet solo
3:00 outro led by clarinet and trumpet
Recorded in New York City on November 15, 1924
Released as Edison 51440. This is take A.
Credits:
William Conrad Polla – piano, arranger, director
Ernie Intelhouse (?), Unknown Artist – trumpet
Unknown Artist – trombone
Unknown Artist – clarinet, alto sax, soprano sax
Unknown Artist – alto sax, soprano sax
Unknown Artist – tenor sax
Elmer Merry (?) – banjo
Al Singmore (?) – tuba
Carl Gerold (?) – drums
Wm. Schulz, Louis Katzman – arranger
Source:
https://archive.org/details/the-recordings-of-william-conrad-pollas-clover-gardens-orchestra/