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Artist: Sonny Kendis and His Stork Club Orchestra Label:   Columbia Country: USA Catalogue: C-75 Date: 24 Oct 1941 Format: Album Title: A Night At The Stork Club Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  4 Own Price Guide: $43 » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Sonny Kendis and His Stork Club Orchestra	Stardust	Parish, Carmichael	Rate
B	Sonny Kendis and His Stork Club Orchestra	If I Had You	Shapiro, Campbell, Connelly	Rate
C	Sonny Kendis and His Stork Club Orchestra	A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody	Berlin	Rate
D	Sonny Kendis and His Stork Club Orchestra	Diga Diga Do	Fields, McHugh	Rate
E	Sonny Kendis and His Stork Club Orchestra	My Blue Heaven	Whiting, Donaldson	9.0  Rate
F	Sonny Kendis and His Stork Club Orchestra	Stumbling	Confrey	Rate
G	Sonny Kendis and His Stork Club Orchestra	My Buddy	G. Kahn, Donaldson	Rate
H	Sonny Kendis and His Stork Club Orchestra	You're The Cream In My Coffee	De Sylva, L. Brown, R. Henderson	9.0  Rate

Notes

Album of four 10": #36395 to 36398.
Title: "A Night At The Stork Club".
Cover notes written by Sherman Billingsley.
Vocal chorus by Sonny Saunders on B, C, E and G.

Release announced in Variety, Oct. 8, 1941, page 40.

1946-1948 represses show only two lines of patent text below the Columbia logo.

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Comments and Reviews

xiphophilos 27th Jul 2020		Sherman Billingsley, as slholzer said, ran the Stork Club at the time, and he wrote the liner notes for this album, which is why his picture is included. He did not direct the club's orchestra. The brief article in Variety, to which I have included a link above, mentions that the orchestra is not the usual 6-man outfit that actually played at the club, but a 14-piece band. The music is very danceable, but maybe more sweet pop than jazz, with lots of shmaltzy violins and muted trumpets. I can see why Rust didn't think it needed to be included in his Jazz Records. It's nice, though. I particularly like the swinging rhythm section, especially the bass, Sonny Kendis' piano, the tenor sax on "Diga Diga Doo", the clarinet on "Stumbling", and Sonny Saunders' crooning vocals.
xiphophilos 27th Jul 2020		Whole album:
Bob1951 18th Mar 2019		Label images added.
slholzer 25th Jul 2017		We learn from Rust's American Dance Band Discography that Sonny Saunders is actually Sonny Schuyler. Or do We? Elsewhere on the Web, we are told that Sonny Saunders is actually Jimmy Saunders? The vocals are pretty good either way. Sadly, there is no information in Rust about who the fine musicians in this orchestra are or who did the excellent arrangements. I think Rust may have missed a trick in not including these tracks in Jazz Records. The web is not much help there either, although it does permit identification of Sonny Kendis as the pianist who is featured to good advantage on several of the tracks. One mystery is why the album cover that pops up several times in the associated video clip fails to mention Sonny Kendis, displaying instead a photo of Sherman Billingsley, the club's owner. (The brief text, which is more legibly displayed on You Tube cuts elsewhere, says Billingley "plays host to his clientele" at the club, not that he directs the orchestra.) Kendis is identified as the leader on all the 78 labels (all 8 appear in the clip) and on all the Columbia LP labels that also appear throughout the clip, with no mention of Billingsley on any of the actual discs.
Whyperion SUBS 5th Feb 2013		Hoagy's 'Stardust' has been given plenty of vocal and instrumental treatment's over the years , one of my favourites was Sky's (group). Didn't Fats Domino do My Blue Heaven ? and You're The Cream again is quite popular.
bobzyeruncle 15th Jan 2013		Definitely not the old standards you hear ageing rock stars croon these days. Macca, Rod, etc. I've a tendency to sing many of these around the house as I do various chores. (When I'm not swearing about having to do them!)
LouisSidney 13th Jan 2013		The design is excellent, but I wouldn't take a chance with the music in that album...The titles look a bit too conservative for my taste.
bobzyeruncle 13th Jan 2013		Drool, Pt. 2! :laugh: An instant swanky evening with a couple of Manhattans to hand and a stack of Carmen Cavalleros waiting to be played afterward. I'm a sucker for stuff like this.
LouisSidney 1st Jan 2013		I own the album -- without the records.

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