78 RPM - The Little Ramblers - The Music Goes 'Round And Around / I'm Shooting High - Bluebird - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	The Little Ramblers
Label:	Bluebird
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	B-6220
Date:	15 Jan 1936
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
Price Guide:	$27
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PRICE GUIDE

$27

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	The Little Ramblers	The Music Goes 'Round And Around	Hodgson, Farley, Riley	10.0 Rate
B	The Little Ramblers	I'm Shooting High	Ted Koehler, Jimmy McHugh	8.0 Rate

Notes

A: Vocal refrain by Bill Dillard and Chorus. B: From the Fox Film "King of Burlesque". Vocal refrain by Bill Dillard.
A Side: mx 98398,
B Side: mx 98600.

Both recorded New York City, Dec. 27, 1935.

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Comments and Reviews


fixbutte 27th May 2015		New entries for the original version of "The Music Goes 'Round And Around" have also been added (label images still missing), plus some other known records of the composers' band, all listed under artist Riley-Farley. The name of the band seemed to change every few months, as we have: Eddy-Reilly And Their “Onyx Club Boys” (Decca 578, 619) Reilly-Farley And Their Onyx Club Boys (Decca 578 reissue, 641) Riley-Farley And Their Onyx Club Boys (Decca 683, 684) Riley-Farley And Their Orchestra (Decca 994, 1031) and maybe more ... I still presume that the Irish name Reilly was the original name of Mike, but was changed (Americanized) to a better pronounceable Riley when the success of "The Music Goes 'Round And Around" came. Apparently Mike Reilly was operating under this name again in the 1940s, see earlier source from the The Story of Hollywood book.



fixbutte 27th May 2015		You're welcome, xiphophilos. I still can add some more information: The original version by Eddy/Eddie Farley and Mike Reilly/Riley was also a national hit in the USA in its own right, three weeks at #1 and 11 weeks on the charts according to Joel Whitburn's unreliable Pop Memories 1890-1954, which also lists Tommy Dorsey's version for five weeks at the top and nine weeks on the charts. Frank Froeba's version is also listed there (#7, 4 weeks) and possibly some other versions of dance bands too (I don't own the book myself). Anyway the song was not only a hit but a phenomenon, ending in a film that led to a New York Times article cited in Wikipedia: The Music Goes 'Round (1936). Notes for the Record on 'Music Goes 'Round,' at the Capitol, and Other Recent Arrivals. New York Times. February 22, 1936. ... If we really wanted to be nasty about it, we could say that this Farley-Riley sequence is the best thing in the new picture. At least it makes no pretense of being anything but a musical interlude dragged in by the scruff of its neck to illustrate the devastating effect upon the public of some anonymous young busybody's question about the workings of a three-valve sax horn. Like the "March of Time," it preserves in film the stark record of a social phenomenon—in this case, the conversion of a song hit into a plague, like Japanese beetles or chain letters. ...



xiphophilos 27th May 2015		Thanks for all this interesting info on the background of the song and its competing versions! I sincerely appreciate you giving this record the "fixbutte treatment." ;-)



fixbutte 26th May 2015		Regarding the Little Ramblers: I can't verify the lineup information for this recording given by xiphophilos, as I don't have access to the content of his first source, the In the Mainstream: 18 Portraits in Jazz book by Chip Deffaa. The band, however, originally was a small group offspring from the well-known California Ramblers, and had made nearly all of its recordings between 1924 and 1927, see http://www.redhotjazz.com/littleramblers.html. It seems that Adrian Rollini revived the California Ramblers and the Little Ramblers (or rather their names) for a few recordings in the mid-1930s: From 1922 to 1927 and, after a spell in England and Europe, Rollini was the backbone of both the California Ramblers and the small groups and his presence on records is always evident and unmistakable. In the 1930's and 40's he did mainly radio and studio work, usually as pianist and vibraphonist and remained a successful musician. He died in 1965. (from redhotjazz.com)



fixbutte 26th May 2015		More information about the original (belonging to its still to be added own entry): ¤ There is another YouTube clip which shows a different, apparently adjusted record label of Decca 578, now with Reilly-Farley And Their Onyx Club Boys as the performing artist and "The Music Goes 'Round And Around" as the song title. ¤ The lineup of the band is given there as Eddy Farley (trumpet), Mike Reilly (trombone and mellophone), Slat Sloane (clarinet), Frank Froeba (piano), Artie Ens (guitar), George Yorke (bass). Interestingly, Frank Froeba was one of the first band leaders who would come up with a cover version of the song. ¤ Mike Reilly is also the singer indicated on the label. It seems that this was the correct spelling of his name, although the composer credits of all cover versions spell it "Riley". He apparently became a local great and club owner in Hollywood, see The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History by Gregory Paul Williams, p. 264. ¤ Eddy/Eddie Farley's name seems to be spelled correctly on the credits anyway. There's a comment on the YouTube video by Cheryl Farley, saying, "My favorite of all time. My grandpa, Eddie Farley Sr. Still receiving royalties !* I call them pennies from Heaven!".*



fixbutte 26th May 2015		There is a lot more of information about the song on a blog, including a link to the original version by the authors Eddie Farley and Mike Riley, with their band Eddy-Reilly And Their “Onyx Club Boys” (aka Reilly-Farley And Their Onyx Club Boys), recorded on Sep 26, 1935 and issued on Decca 578 (b/w “Looking For Love") in Oct 1935. The record label of the original version bears the title “The Music Goes Around and Around”.



fixbutte 26th May 2015		As seen on the record label, the A-side is spelled "The Music Goes 'Round And Around" (like on the record by Frank Froeba, recorded and released at about the same time on Columbia 3110-D). Both recordings, however, were apparently induced by the hit of Tommy Dorsey and His Clambake Seven on Victor 25201 (vocal by Edythe Wright), recorded on Dec 9, 1935 and released in that month (spelled "The Music Goes 'Round And 'Round" there). Other versions, namely by Louis Armstrong (Decca 685), the Boswell Sisters (Decca 671) and Hal Kemp (Brunswick 7587), followed early in 1936.



xiphophilos 26th May 2015		The Little Ramblers were a septet that included Bill Dillard (tr, voc); Albert Nicholas (cl); Danny Barker (g); Adrian Rollini (vib). (source) (source 2).



xiphophilos 26th May 2015		A Side: B Side: