One Hour With You: CRHSO: a 1920s Hot Dance Jazz Age Gatsby big band

"One Hour With You"

On most of the tracks on this recording, the CRHSO is playing note-for-note transcriptions of the original vintage 78 rpm recordings. "Ill Wind" and "Daybreak Express Medley" were transcribed from the "Cotton Club" movie soundtrack and "Ma! He's Making Eyes At Me" and "One Hour With You" are original arrangements. Two of the tracks ("Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" and " Varsity Drag") are stock arrangements which were originally published in 1933 and 1927 respectively. The transcriptions from the recordings are: "Charleston (Savoy Orpheans)," "Please (Bing Crosby with Anson Weeks Orchestra)," "Cotton Club Stomp (Duke Ellington)," "Button Up Your Overcoat (Helen Kane)," "Black Beauty (Duke Ellington)," "Moonlight Saving Time (Jack Payne & His BBC Dance Orchestra)," "Dinah (Bing Crosby)," "Creole Love Call (Duke Ellington)," "Do Something (Helen Kane)," "Minnie The Moocher (Cab Calloway)," "Sweet Georgia Brown (Bing Crosby & Isham Jones Orchestra)," "Misery (Blanche Calloway)," "I Wanna Be Loved By You (Helen Kane)," "Alone At Last (Coon-Sanders Nighthawks)," "Ring Dem Bells (Duke Ellington)," and "Brother Can You Spare A Dime (Bing Crosby & Lennie Hayton Orchestra)."

Vocalists include: Miss Kelley Foster, Cheryl Chase, Robert York, CJ Sams, Jim Jones, and the Crazy Rhythm Boys.

Tracks: (click on the links below for a sample of each track)

1 Charleston (1923)

2 Please (1923)

3 Cotton Club Stomp (1930)

4 Ill Wind (1934)

5 Button Up Your Overcoat (1929)

6 Black Beauty (1928)

7 (There Ought To Be A) Moonlight Saving Time (1931)

8 Daybreak Express Medley (1934)

9 Dinah (1925)

10 Ma! (He's Making Eyes At Me) (1921)