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Araby + Echoes of Ireland - Fox Trots (1925) Savoy Orpheans

ARABY – Fox Trot [0:00] ECHOES OF IRELAND – Fox Trot [3:34] Savoy Orpheans: Vocalist on Araby – Ramon Newton HMV B2173 (9 October (Araby) and 23 October (Echoes of Ireland) 1925) There are some odd things about this recording which comes from well within the first year of electrical recording at HMV. The images of the labels are to scale (notice that the holes are the same size). Araby has a long playing time, for a 10-inch, and spirals close to the hole which clearly necessitated a small label (72 mm diameter). However, at just about 3 minutes, Echoes of Ireland is of a regular length, yet that side was given an over-sized label (92 mm diameter). The regular HMV label size of this era is around 85 mm. Never before have I seen a record, of any size or playing speed, with different sized labels. The other odd thing is the equalisation. When played with the RIAA equalisation characteristic designed for 45 and 33⅓ rpm records, this 78 has a near-natural balance. In fact, for Echoes of Ireland I didn’t bother to correct it, save for a slight final tweak to get it subjectively sounding right. Araby is an Horatio Nicholls composition, cashing in on the silent movie craze of the time. Nicholls was a composing pen-name of Lawrence Wright; a name that appears as the publisher on the royalty stamps on both sides. Echoes of Ireland is an Arthur Lange arrangement of traditional tunes. Listening to it (many many times (one for Beyond Our Ken aficionados)) whilst preparing this video has been interesting. I reckon it’s the nearest to an example of a Savoy ballroom performance I’ve yet heard from the Orpheans. “Ladies and Gentlemen, take your partners for a novelty fox trot: Echoes of Ireland” . . then much whooping and letting down of high society hair. In Wikipedia, Lange is described as "a United States bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer of popular music" who also composed for Hollywood films, receiving one joint Oscar and four nominations. It was Arthur Lange’s orchestra which was bought at the end of 1923 by New Jersey millionaire banker Otto Kahn for his teenage, musically-gifted, son Roger Wolfe Kahn.