Matrix BVE-41294. Smile / Paul Whiteman Orchestra

Primary Title Source
Smile Disc label

Title Source
Smile (Primary title) Disc label
Fox trot (Title descriptor) Disc label

Authors and Composers Notes
Donald Heywood (composer)

Composer information source: Disc label

Personnel
Notes
Paul Whiteman Orchestra (Musical group)
Jack Mayhew (instrumentalist: alto saxophone) Not confirmed
Bix Beiderbecke (instrumentalist: cornet)
Steve Brown (instrumentalist: string bass)
Henry Busse (instrumentalist: trumpet)
Kurt Dieterle (instrumentalist: violin)
Wilbur Hall (instrumentalist: trombone)
Chester Hazlett (instrumentalist: alto saxophone)
Matty Malneck (instrumentalist: violin)
Charles Margulis (instrumentalist: trumpet)
Nye Mayhew (instrumentalist: alto saxophone) Not confirmed
Harold McDonald (instrumentalist: drums)
Hal McLean (instrumentalist: alto saxophone)
Harry Perrella (instrumentalist: piano)
Mario Perry (instrumentalist: violin)
Mike Pingitore (instrumentalist: banjo)
Mischa Russell (instrumentalist: violin)
Charles Strickfaden (instrumentalist: baritone saxophone)
Mike Trafficante (instrumentalist: tuba)
Tom Satterfield (instrumentalist: piano)
Rupert ("Rube") Crozier (instrumentalist: alto saxophone)
Charles Gaylord (instrumentalist: violin)
Charles Gaylord (vocalist)
Jack Fulton (vocalist)
Al Rinker (vocalist: tenor vocal)
Austin "Skin" Young (vocalist: tenor vocal)
John Bowman (instrumentalist: violin)
Rupert ("Rube") Crozier (instrumentalist: bassoon)
Rupert ("Rube") Crozier (instrumentalist: flute)
Boyce Cullen (instrumentalist: trombone)
Jimmy Dorsey (instrumentalist: alto saxophone)
Jimmy Dorsey (instrumentalist: clarinet)
Jack Fulton (instrumentalist: trombone)
Bob Mayhew (instrumentalist: cornet)
Jack Mayhew (instrumentalist: clarinet)
Nye Mayhew (instrumentalist: baritone saxophone)
Hal McLean (instrumentalist: clarinet)
Bill Rank (instrumentalist: trombone)
Charles Strickfaden (instrumentalist: clarinet)
Frank Trumbauer (instrumentalist: C-melody saxophone)
Nathaniel Shilkret (director) Takes 1-3
Paul Whiteman (director)

Primary Performer Notes
Paul Whiteman Orchestra (Musical group)

Description: Jazz/dance band, with male vocal quartet
Instrumentation: Takes 1-3: Violin, bass, 5 saxophones, 3 cornets, 2 trombones, tuba, banjo, guitar, piano, and traps
Takes 4-6: 5 violins, bass, 8 saxophones, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, banjo, piano, and traps
Category: Instrumental with vocal refrain
Master Size: 10-inch

Take Date and Place
Take
 Status Label Name/Number
Format
Note
1/4/1928 (New York, New York. Liederkranz Hall) 1 Master/hold
1/4/1928 (New York, New York. Liederkranz Hall) 2 Destroy
1/4/1928 (New York, New York. Liederkranz Hall) 3 Destroy
1/24/1928 (Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg.) 4 Hold Sunbeam BX CD5
CD
1/24/1928 (Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg.) 5 Master Victor 21228
10" disc
1/24/1928 (Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg.) 5 Master Sunbeam BX CD6
CD
1/24/1928 (Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg.) 6 Destroy

Take Date and Place
Take
 Status Label Name/Number
Format
Note
1/24/1928 (Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg.)
4
 Hold Sunbeam BX CD5
CD
1/24/1928 (Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg.)
5
 Master Victor 21228
10" disc
1/24/1928 (Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg.)
5
 Master Sunbeam BX CD6
CD

Footnotes and Sources
Instrumentation is from Victor ledgers and is not confirmed; collective personnel from Sunbeam CD notes.
Victor ledgers, 1/4/1928: "Whiteman & Shilkret, Dir."
Source(s) consulted: Sunbeam CD notes (personnel); Rigler-Deutsch Index; Victor ledgers.

Footnotes and Sources

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