Artist: Washboard Rhythm Kings
Title: Collection, Vol.2, 1932
Year Of Release: 1995
Label: Collectors Classics
Genre: New Orleans Jazz
Quality: Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:09:52
Total Size: 282 Mb (scans)
Tracklist:1. You Can Depend On Me (Carpenter-Hines) - 3:17
2. All This World Is Made Of Glass (Fried) - 3:05
3. Was That The Human Thing To Do? (Young-Fain) - 3:29
4. Oh What A Thrill (Murray-Trivers-Hoffman) - 3:33
5. Just Another Dream Of You (Davis-Burke) - 2:32
6. Depression Stomp (Washington-Fried) - 3:11
7. My Silent Love (Heyman-Suesse) - 2:54
8. Tiger Rag (La Rocca) - 2:59
9. Hummin' To Myself (Magidson-Seigel-Fain) - 2:53
10. Holding My Honey's Hand (Hirsch-Goering-Bernie) - 2:57
11. You Were Only Mine (Newman-Jones) - 3:00
12. Ash Man Crawl (Fried) - 2:51
13. The Boy In The Boat (Fried) - 3:36
14. I'm Gonna Play Down By The Ohio (Fried) - 3:30
15. Somebody Stole Gabriel's Horn (Washington-Hayes-Mills) - 3:05
16. Say It Isn't So (Berlin) - 2:58
17. Underneath The Harlem Moon (Gordon-Revel) - 3:35
18. Ikey And Mikey (Fried) - 3:03
19. How Deep Is The Ocean (Berlin) - 2:57
20. Sloppy Drunk Blues (x) - 3:10
21. A Nickel For A Pickle (Fried) - 2:39
22. Fire (Fried) - 2:53
Line-up::
Washboard Rhythm Kings
1 - 4: Dave Riddick (t), Jimmy Shine (as, vo), Carl Wade (ts), Eddie Miles (p, vo), Steve Washington (bj), Jimmy Spencer (washboard, vo).
Washboard Rhythm Kings
5-10: Taft Jordan (t), Ben Smith (cl, as), Carl Wade (ts), Eddie Miles (p, vo), Steve Washington (bj, vo), Ghost Howell (sb, vo), H. Smith (washboard).
Camden, N.J., July 6, 1932
Washboard Rhythm Boys
11-16: Same personnel, Bella Benson (vo).
Camden, N.J., October 18, 1932
Washboard Rhythm Kings
17-22: Dave Page (t, vo), Ben Smith (cl, as), Jimmy Shine or Jerome Carrington (as), Carl Wade (ts), Eddie Miles (p), Wilbur Daniels (bj, vo), Leo Watson (sb, vo), unknown (washboard), Frank Benton (vo).
Camden, N.J., November 23, 1932
The Washboard Rhythm Kings, also known as the Washboard Rhythm Boys, Georgia Washboard Stompers (1934-1935), or Alabama Washboard Stompers (1930-1932) were a loose aggregation of jazz performers, many of high calibre, who recorded as a group for various labels between about 1930 and 1935.
The band played good-time swinging music, featuring spirited vocals, horns, a washboard player and occasionally kazoo, and were popular around the time of the Great Depression. They mostly covered current hits from other artists.
Their personnel varied considerably between sessions, with guitarist Teddy Bunn a regular member from 1930 to 1931. Later recordings included singers Leo Watson or Steve Washington, washboard player and vocalist Bruce Johnson (aka Bruce Wiley Robinson?), trumpeters Valaida Snow and Taft Jordan, and clarinetist Ben Smith.
Their 1932 recording of "Tiger Rag" has been cited for its "wild, informal feel" as an early precursor of rock and roll. Their music was also highly influential on the skiffle music of the 1950s and later.
For the most part, they recorded for Victor. The "Alabama Washboard Stompers" were on Vocalion. There was a March 8, 1933 session of 8 sides recorded for John Hammond at Columbia primarily for export to the UK. Two of the tracks were subsequently issued in the US on Columbia 14680-D, which was the last issued record on the legendary 13000-D/14000-D Race Series.
They also recorded for ARC in August, 1933 and those sides were issued on their Banner, Domino, Melotone, Oriole, Perfect, and Romeo labels. As "Georgia Washboard Stompers", they were on the newly-formed Decca label in late 1934 and early 1935.
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