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* Ceelle Burke * Gilt-Edge Promo * SWING IT MR. JOE

Thanks for checking in to my auction.  In this auction you are bidding on a white promo (or test pressing) of the Ceelle Burke and His Music.  The reason I am not sure it that it is a test or promo is that I cannot find this record listed anywhere (internet or price guides) on a production copy.  In any case, Ceelle Burke and His Music perform "Swing It Mr. Joe" and "God Bless My Daddy."  The record reference numbers are 500 S.A. 223 and 500 S.A. 221.  The "Swing It Mr Joe" side has a backup girls group that sounds reminiscent of the Boswell Sisters though I could not find any reference indicating that. In any case, the backup group sang in that style and very nice.  This is heavy shellac that maintains its shine.  There is a touch of "out of flat" on the turntable that does not affect the play and one place on the "Daddy" side that tics lightly a few turns.   It plays with a bit of surface but the music is loud and clear, overall VG+.  Since I was unfamiliar with this artist and his orchestra, I Googled up the site below with a bit of information.  Thanks for having a look and for your bids...

http://nfo.net/usa/b10.html
Guitar/Banjo
In the late 1920s, or early 1930s, he seems to have been active in the Central Avenue neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. (He may - or may not - have been a Canadian as some have mentioned.) What is clear is that, during 1930-'31, this Banjoist and Guitarist was a member of Louis Armstrong's New Sebastian Club Orchestra, and recorded with that band. He also spent some time with the Duke Ellington Orch. In fact, he was probably playing guitar with Ellington when the band was at New York's famed Cotton Club in 1935 (although it may have been Brick Fleagle). In 1936, his name appears on four songs as instrumentalist (and arranger on one title) on recordings by 'Rex Stewart & His 52nd Street Stompers', a studio group made up mainly of members of Duke Ellington's band. It is quite probable that the Ceele Burke Orchestra was also a studio group with mostly Ellington bandsmen. The Ceele Burke orchestra is also heard on some Tempo recordings (U. S. Record pressing new label for Musicraft) with re-issues of sides obtained from the Ammor label. The Ceele Burke Orchestra also made at least one record for the Excelsior label. "Play Me The Blues" (rec'd ca. 1943-'44) which featured Ellington's vocalist, Ivie Anderson on one side.

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