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"Red Nichols and his Five Pennies" (Vitaphone 1929)
"Red Nichols and his Five Pennies" (Vitaphone 1929)
Young Eddie Condon, Pee Wee Russel and Miff Mole among others. Features a hot rendition of "China Boy" as well as Eddie Condon on the vocals for "Nobody's Sweetheart"
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Red Nichols (1930): CORRINE CORRINA
Red Nichols (1930): CORRINE CORRINA
Red Nichols and his Five Pennies: Corrine Corrina Vocal by Wingy Manone German Brunswick A 9024 (mx. No.: E-35734-A) New York, December 10, 1930
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Entrance Of The Gladiators - Red Nichols And His Five Pennies
Entrance Of The Gladiators - Red Nichols And His Five Pennies
The later Red Nichols And His Five Pennies play the Entrance Of The Gladiators, that is Joe Rushton on bass sax, Recorded 1950 - 1952.
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Red Nichols, Miff Mole - That's A Plenty (1929)
Red Nichols, Miff Mole - That's A Plenty (1929)
Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (May 8, 1905-June 28, 1965) was an American jazz cornettist. Nichols was born in Ogden, Utah, the son of a music teacher. By the age of 12 he was playing cornet with his father's brass band. He decided to take up the new style of music called jazz after hearing the phonograph records of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. In 1923 he moved east to perform with a band in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and (with a few tours of the midwest) made New York City his base throughout the 1920s and 1930s. He worked for various bandleaders including Paul Whiteman and Harry Reser and Henry Halstead., was a regular in the cooperative California Ramblers in addition to leading groups under his own name (often called Red Nichols & His Five Pennies), and of the band of his friend trombonist Miff Mole. Nichols became one of the busiest phonograph session musicians of his era, making hundreds of recording sessions of jazz and hot dance band music. He also played in several Broadway shows. ------------------- Irving Milfred Mole, better known as Miff Mole (11 March 1898 - 29 April 1961) was a jazz trombonist and band leader. He is generally considered as one of the greatest jazz trombonists and credited with creating "the first distinctive and influential solo jazz trombone style." Miff Mole was born in Roosevelt, New York. As a child, he studied violin and piano and switched to trombone when he was 15. He played in Gus Sharp's orchestra for two years and in the 1920s <b>...</b>
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Battle Hymn Of the Republic - Red Nichols & His Five Pennies
Battle Hymn Of the Republic - Red Nichols & His Five Pennies
Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (May 8, 1905 -- June 28, 1965) Later career Nichols kept himself alive during the first years of the Great Depression by playing in show bands and pit orchestras. He led Bob Hope's orchestra for a while, moving out to California. He'd married Willa Stutsman, a "stunning" George White "Scandals" dancer, and they had a daughter. She came down with polio (misdiagnosed at first as spinal meningitis) in 1942, and Nichols quit a gig playing with Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra and left the music business to work in the wartime shipyards. Unable to stay away from music, Nichols formed a new Five Pennies band and began playing small clubs in the Los Angeles area soon after the war ended. Before long the word was out and musicians began showing up, turning his gigs into jam sessions. Soon the little club dates were turning into more prestigious bookings at the chic Zebra Room, the Tudor Room of San Francisco's Palace Hotel, and Pasadena's posh Sheraton. He toured Europe as a goodwill ambassador for the State Department. Nichols and his band performed briefly, billed as themselves, in Quicksand, a 1950 crime film starring Mickey Rooney. And in 1956 he was the subject of one of Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life TV shows, which featured his old buddies Miff Mole, Phil Harris and Jimmy Dorsey, who praised Nichols as a bandleader who made sure everybody got paid. The 1959 Hollywood film The Five Pennies, the film biography of Red Nichols, starring Danny <b>...</b>
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Red Nichols - "Hot Lips" (1939)
Red Nichols - "Hot Lips" (1939)
"Hot Lips" (Henry Busse, Henry Lange, Lou Davis) Performed by Red Nichols and His Orchestra Recorded June 21, 1939 Personnel: Red Nichols - trumpet, director Don Stevens, J. Douglas Wood - trumpets Martin Croy, Robert Gebhart - trombones Harry Yolonsky, Ray Schultz - clarinet, alto sax Bobby Jones, Billy Shepard - clarinet, tenor sax Billy Maxted - piano Tony Colucci - guitar Jack Fay - string bass Victor Engle- drums "Hot Lips" was first published in 1922 and was presented as a "Blues Fox Trot Song." The song is about a trumpet player. The chorus is: He's got hot lips, when he plays jazz, He draws out step, like no one has, You're on your toes, and shake your shoes, Boy, how he goes, when he plays blues. I watch the crowd, until he's through, He can be proud, they're "cuckoo,' too; His music's rare, you must declare, The boy is there, with two hot lips. The song has been recorded many times. The initial issue was by Paul Whiteman's orchestra of which Henry Busse was a member at the time.
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Red Nichols - Margie (1928)
Red Nichols - Margie (1928)
Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols was born in Ogden, Utah, the son of a music teacher. By the age of 12 he was playing cornet with his father's brass band. He decided to take up the new style of music called jazz after hearing the phonograph records of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. In 1923 he moved east to perform with a band in Atlantic City, and made New York City his base throughout the 1920s and 1930s. He worked for various bandleaders including Paul Whiteman and Harry Reser, as well as leading his own band, Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. In 1927, his group had a huge hit with the recording of "Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider". During his Brunswick career (1926-1932) a virtual who's who of great jazz musicians were members of Nichols' studio recording sessions. Other labels he recorded for included Edison (1926), Victor (1927-1928 & 1930 & 1931), Bluebird (1934 & 1939), back to Brunswick for a session in 1934, Variety 1937, and finally OKeh in 1940. In 1942 Nichols moved to California, where he headlined with his own band, as Red Nichols And His Five Pennies, in Los Angeles and San Francisco into the 1950s. The 1959 Hollywood film "The Five Pennies", starring Danny Kaye, was very loosely based on Nichols' career. Nichols played his own trumpet parts for the film, but did not appear on screen. The Paramount Motion Picture received four Academy Award nominations. "The Five Pennies" movie theme song was composed by Sylvia Fine, the wife of Danny Kaye. Nichols also made a <b>...</b>
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Red Nichols and His Five Pennies, "I AIN'T GOT NOBODY" (1927)
Red Nichols and His Five Pennies, "I AIN'T GOT NOBODY" (1927)
I AIN'T GOT NOBODY Red Nichols and His Five Pennies (Using the pseudonym "Arkansas Travelers") Words: Roger Graham Music Spencer Williams, Dave Peyton Recorded Sept. 14, 1927 Red Nichols and his Five Pennies (Using the pseudonym "Arkansas Travelers") Personnel: Red Nichols - cornet Miff Mole - trombone Fud Livingston - clarinet Arthur Schutt - piano Vic Berton - Drums This record is a reissue on the Rex label of the original Harmony 505-H recording. Red Nichols and Miff Mole became a fixture in New York's jazz scene, recording frequently with a regular band that included Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Schutt and Vic Berton. On Brunswick, the band was christened Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, a name that stuck with Nichols throughout his recording career regardless of the actual number of musicians in the band. On Columbia the band was given a standard house band pseudonym The Charleston Chasers. On Columbia's budget Harmony label the band was The Arkansas Travellers. On the Perfect label they were The Red Heads. On the OKeH label they were Miff Mole and his Little Molers. When they recorded for Edison or Victor they were Red and Miff's Stompers.
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Red Nichols And His Five Pennies - Troublesome Trumpet (1933)
Red Nichols And His Five Pennies - Troublesome Trumpet (1933)
Clip looks like from movie but i didn't find title of movie.
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Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Bugle Call Rag
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Bugle Call Rag
Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols was born in Ogden, Utah, the son of a music teacher. By the age of 12 he was playing cornet with his father's brass band. He decided to take up the new style of music called jazz after hearing the phonograph records of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. In 1923 he moved east to perform with a band in Atlantic City, and made New York City his base throughout the 1920s and 1930s. He worked for various bandleaders including Paul Whiteman and Harry Reser, as well as leading his own band, Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. In 1927, his group had a huge hit with the recording of "Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider". During his Brunswick career (1926-1932) a virtual who's who of great jazz musicians were members of Nichols' studio recording sessions. Other labels he recorded for included Edison (1926), Victor (1927-1928 & 1930 & 1931), Bluebird (1934 & 1939), back to Brunswick for a session in 1934, Variety 1937, and finally OKeh in 1940. In 1942 Nichols moved to California, where he headlined with his own band, as Red Nichols And His Five Pennies, in Los Angeles and San Francisco into the 1950s. The 1959 Hollywood film "The Five Pennies", starring Danny Kaye, was very loosely based on Nichols' career. Nichols played his own trumpet parts for the film, but did not appear on screen. The Paramount Motion Picture received four Academy Award nominations. "The Five Pennies" movie theme song was composed by Sylvia Fine, the wife of Danny Kaye. Nichols also made a <b>...</b>
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Red Nichols & His 5 Pennies - Can't We Be Friends? 1929
Red Nichols & His 5 Pennies - Can't We Be Friends? 1929
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies, v. Scrappy Lambert - Can't We Be Friends? (Paul James, Kay Swift) From: "THE LITTLE SHOW OF 1929", Brunswick 1929 __________________________ From redhotjazz: RED NICHOLS and his Five Pennies were one of the most popular bands of the New York Jazz scene of the 1920s. They recorded under a variety of different names, including the Arkansas Travelers, The Red Heads, The Louisiana Rhythm Kings, The Charleston Chasers, The Six Hottentots, The Hottentots and Miff Mole and his Little Molers. The band's style was often called "Chamber Jazz" by critics and for what it lacked in hot intensity it made up for with a cool somewhat detached, yet urban and sophisticated sound. In 1959 Hollywood made a highly fictionalized movie about the band called "The Five Pennies", starring Danny Kaye as Red Nichols.
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Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider - Brunswick 3626
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider - Brunswick 3626
Red Nichols, t, plus Leo McConville, Mannie Klein, t / Miff Mole, tb / Pee Wee Russell, cl / Fud Livingston, ts, a / Adrian Rollini, bsx, gfs / Lennie Hayton, p, cel / Dick McDonough, g / Vic Berton, d. New York, August 15, 1927.
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SHEIK OF ARABY Red Nichols and The Five Pennies 1930
SHEIK OF ARABY Red Nichols and The Five Pennies 1930
Red Nichols, Jack Teagarden, Gene Krupa, and more in this group. Recorded in 1930 and re-issued on Brunswick label album in 1943. Great early jazz. Enjoy!
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Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Allah's Holiday - Brunswick 4286
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Allah's Holiday - Brunswick 4286
Red Nichols, t, a / Mannie Klein, t / Miff Mole, tb / Dudley Fosdick, mel / Adrian Rollini, bsx / Fud Livingston, cl / Jimmy Dorsey, as / Arthur Schutt, p / Carl Kress, g / Vic Berton, d. New York, February 16, 1929.
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Tea For Two (Youmans) - Red Nichols & His Five Pennies, 1930
Tea For Two (Youmans) - Red Nichols & His Five Pennies, 1930
Tea For Two (Youmans /Caesar) from "No No, Nanette" - Red Nichols & His Five Pennies (Red Nichols, Ruby Weinstein (tp), Jack Teagarden, Glen Miller (tb), Jimmy Dorsey (cl)(as), Babe Russin, Adrian Rollini (ts), Jack Russin (p), Treg Brown (g), Gene Krupa (d)), Brunswick, 1930 NOTE: This is a later pressing made with the original Brunswick matrix, for Brunswick Collectors Series. Look at the list of names: wow! this band was simply a meeting point for the giants! Therefore, I am leaving it without comment. It's an ultra-hihgest-class rendition and a rare chance to see how the genius of the jazz-masters changes a rather simple hot dance hit from the Roaring 1920s into an object of the purest art. Red NICHOLS (1905-1965) was a jazz legend, one of the most prolific recording artists in history. In the 1920s alone the cornetist appeared on over 4000 recordings, working with almost every important musician of his time. Though his style of playing was influenced by Bix Beiderbecke, Nichols was a more polished musician. His contribution to the early days of jazz is immense and few artists can even come close to equaling his accomplishments. Born in Utah, Nichols studied music under his father, a college music professor, and mastered a variety of instruments, though he favored the cornet. As a teen he attended the Culver Military Academy and played in its band before being dismissed. In 1923 Nichols settled in New York, where he met trombonist Miff Mole, who became a permanent <b>...</b>
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Red Nichols and his Five Pennies - Red Hot Henry Brown (1925)
Red Nichols and his Five Pennies - Red Hot Henry Brown (1925)
Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (May 8, 1905June 28, 1965) was an American jazz cornettist, composer, and jazz bandleader. Red Nichols was born in Ogden, Utah, the son of a music teacher. By the age of 12 he was playing cornet with his father's brass band. He decided to take up the new style of music called jazz after hearing the phonograph records of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. In 1923 he moved east to perform with a band in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and (with a few tours of the midwest) made New York City his base throughout the 1920s and 1930s. He worked for various bandleaders including Paul Whiteman and Harry Reser. Henry Halstead was a regular in the cooperative California Ramblers in addition to leading groups under his own name (often called Red Nichols & His Five Pennies), and of the band of his friend trombonist Miff Mole. Nichols became one of the busiest phonograph session musicians of his era, making hundreds of recording sessions of jazz and hot dance band music. He also played in several Broadway shows. Red Nichols and his Five Pennies - Red Hot Henry Brown (1925)
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Red Nichols & his Orchestra - I Got Rhythm (1930)
Red Nichols & his Orchestra - I Got Rhythm (1930)
Vocal by Dick Robertson. Music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
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Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Rose Of Washington Square - Brunswick 4778
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Rose Of Washington Square - Brunswick 4778
Red Nichols, Mannie Klein, Tommy Thunen, t / Glenn Miller, c, tb / Jack Teagarden, ? Herb Taylor, tb / Pee Wee Russell, cl / Bud Freeman, ts / Joe Sullivan, p / Tommy Fellini, bj / Art Miller, sb / Dave Tough, d / Red McKenzie, v. New York, June 12, 1929.
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Red Nichols & His "Strike Up The Band" Orchestra - Strike Up The Band - Brunswick 4695
Red Nichols & His "Strike Up The Band" Orchestra - Strike Up The Band - Brunswick 4695
Red Nichols, Ruby Weinstein, Charlie Teagarden, t / Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, tb / Jimmy Dorsey, cl, as / Sid Stoneburn, as / Babe Russin, Larry Binyon, ts / Jack Russin, p / Treg Brown bj / Gene Krupa, d / v. New York, January 17, 1930.
