The Revelers
From Wikipedia
The Revelers were an American quintet (four close harmony singers and a pianist) popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Revelers' recordings of "Dinah", "Old Man River", "Valencia", "Baby Face", "Blue Room", "The Birth of the Blues", "When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba", and many more, became popular in the United States and then Europe in the late 1920s.
All of the members had recorded individually or in various combinations, and formed a group in 1925. The original Revelers were tenors Franklyn Baur and Lewis James, baritone Elliot Shaw, bass Wilfred Glenn, and pianist Ed Smalle. Smalle was replaced by Frank Black in 1926. The group (with Black at the piano) appeared in a short movie musical, The Revelers (1927), filmed in the sound-on-disc Vitaphone process. This one-reel short film, recently restored by "The Vitaphone Project," shows the group performing "Mine", "Dinah", and "No Foolin'". A second short, filmed the same day with another three songs, awaits restoration.
Baur was replaced by Frank Luther and then James Melton (later a Metropolitan Opera tenor).
The Revelers were stars on radio and in vaudeville, as well as in the recording studio. On radio they were regulars on The Palmolive Hour (1927-31). Ring Lardner observed, "Under any name, they sound as sweet." Lardner outlined his "perfect radio program" for The New Yorker magazine, and found a place for The Revelers along with Paul Whiteman and Fanny Brice.
They had a recording contract with Victor (later RCA Victor) but made extra money by moonlighting under pseudonyms for other labels (such as "The Singing Sophomores" on Columbia Records and "The Merrymakers" on Brunswick Records). An example of what The Revelers sounded like is "I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston" on the CD "The Roaring Twenties" (ABC 838 215-2) from the series "Robert Parker's The Golden Years." The German group The Comedian Harmonists formed in 1927 after hearing some records of The Revelers.
The Revelers were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999.
Included here are several sides by the Revelers, The Singing Sophomores, and as a special treat.......two sides by the Two Jazzers.
The Two Jazzers
The Two Jazzers
Here are the tracks:
The Singing Sophomores-All I want to do is be with you
The Revelers- Beautiful
The Revelers-Birth of the blues
The Revelers-Blue shadows
The Revelers-Breezin' along
The Revelers-Collegiate
The Revelers-Dinah
The Revelers-Dream river
The Revelers-Dusky stevedore
The Revelers-Happy feet
Harlem Melody Band vocals: the Two Jazzers-Yo Yo
The Revelers-Honolulu moon
The Singing Sophomores-I'd rather be alone in the south
The Revelers-I know what you know
The Revelers-I'm in love again
The Revelers-I'm looking over a 4 leaf clover
The Revelers-Lucky day
The Revelers-Mammy is gone
The Revelers-Mary Lou
The Revelers-Moonlight on the Ganges
The Revelers-Oh, Miss Hannah
The Revelers-Nola
The Revelers-Sing something simple
The Revelers- So blue
Teddy Kline Orch. w/ The Two Jazzers-I'm doing what I'm doing for love
The Revelers-The blue room
The Revelers-Valencia
The Revelers-Was it a dream
The Revelers-When day is done
The Singing Sophomores-When the red red robin goes bob bob bobbin' along
The Revelers-Yankee Rose
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