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Snippets of Dance Music at the Savoy Hotel, London (1920-46)

"Snippets of Dance Music at the Savoy Hotel, London (1920-46)" compiled by the Composer Collection, 23rd February to 2nd March 2025. Playlist:    • Dance Music at the Savoy Hotel, Londo...   This video takes a brief look at the dance music that was played at the Savoy Hotel, London, in the interwar and WWII periods. We start the list with the Savoy Dance Orchestra, which made one record for Columbia in early 1920. The Savoy Quartet, a ragtime group led by Joe Wilbur that played at the Savoy in the late 1910s, was augmented by two saxophonists and a violinist for the session. In late 1921, the head of entertainment at the Savoy was William de Mornys, who had brought in a group of American musicians to replace the Savoy Dance Orchestra. This orchestra was known as the New York Havana Band, later known as the Savoy Havana Band, and it was directed by Bert Ralton of Art Hickman's Orchestra fame. The Savoy Havana Band made hundreds of recordings from late October 1921 to mid-September 1927, and they recorded for Columbia (1921-24), His Master's Voice (1924-27) and countless others under pseudonyms, the latter activity ending as the orchestra transferred to HMV. Not long after the band made their first live outside broadcast on the BBC from the Savoy on 03.10.1923, Bert Ralton left the UK with some of his musicians to embark for Australia, leaving Ramon Newton to step into his shoes as director of the orchestra. At the same time, another dance band was formed to play music at the Savoy Hotel, and this was none other than the Savoy Orpheans (1923-27) which played under the baton of Debroy Somers for the first 2½ years. The Savoy Orpheans principally recorded for Columbia from December 1923 to October 1924, but like the Havana band, they also recorded under a pseudonym, this time for HMV. When the Havana Band moved to HMV in December 1924, so did the Orpheans, and their 'Romaine Orchestra' alias moved over to Zonophone a month earlier; their recording sessions on the latter label lasted until August 1925. Similarly, the Orpheans' personnel also featured several Americans, some of which were trumpeter Vernon Ferry, trombonist George Chaffin, and two of the Starita bros that played saxophone - Al and Ray. Rudy Vallée was in the Havana band for a few months, leaving just before HMV replaced their acoustic recording method with electrical recording in late June 1925; Debroy Somers conducted a few sessions for the Savoy Havana Band that year and in late 1923. Ramon Newton replaced Somers as bandleader of the Orpheans in late April 1926, with Reginald Batten taking over the Havana band at the same time. Reg. stayed with the Havana band for the remainder of its run, but Ramon Newton left the Orpheans at the turn of 1926, later being replaced by a young American pianist who had played at the Berkeley Hotel and recently led the Sylvians... that was Carroll Gibbons. Speaking of the Sylvians, that was a dance band at the Savoy that existed from October 1926 to December 1927, and some of its later directors included Ben Evers and Howard Jacobs (the latter moved to the Berkeley in 1928). On New Year's Day 1928, de Mornys' bands at the Savoy were replaced by two new bands, one of which was a short-lived 'Savoy Orpheans (1928)' group that was directed by Reg. Batten; the other was Fred Elizalde and His Music, which featured an all-star personnel that included three members of the California Ramblers; Chelsea Quealey, Bobby Davis and Adrian Rollini. Al Bowlly's first recorded vocal refrains in the UK were with Fred's orchestra. Sadly, Fred's contract at the Savoy was terminated on 31st July 1929, and he was replaced by several dance bands over the next two years, one of which was Percival Mackey and His Band, who had trumpeter Jack Jackson in its line-up. Howard Jacobs' Orchestra was at the Savoy when Carroll Gibbons returned from a brief stint in Hollywood to lead the newly-formed Savoy Hotel Orpheans, featuring Jacobs as co-leader for the first few months of its existence. The Savoy Hotel Orpheans may be considered the most famous dance band that played at the Savoy, since they recorded c. 740 sides for Columbia from 19.10.1931 to c. 1949 (the 1947-49 records were issued as 'Carroll Gibbons and His Orchestra'). A lot of their performances feature Carroll Gibbons playing the chorus of a melody on his piano, occasionally playing an improvised solo with a second pianist. He was at the Savoy for most of his life, leading dance bands there from 1926-27, 1931-50 and 1951-54. Geraldo (Gerald Bright) led a 'Gaucho Tango' band at the Savoy for most of the thirties, whose personnel grew and varied as they played foxtrots and waltzes while the decade progressed. The Savoy Hotel name did not appear on Geraldo's recordings until 13.10.1939. Please note: This compilation, like all others on this channel, was uploaded for non-commercial purposes. Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:06 1920s 7:11 1930s 11:54 1940s 15:43 Credits