LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS 1939 Jazzbo Joe / Vocalion KAZOO
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LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS
JAZZBO JOE
In 1929 Bob Wills moved from West Texas to Fort Worth and formed the Wills Fiddle Band, a rather unimposing aggregation made up of Wills as fiddler and Herman Arnspiger as guitarist.
In 1930, Milton Brown joined the band as vocalist, and in 1931, the Wills Fiddle Band -- Wills, Arnspiger, and Brown -- became the Light Crust Doughboys. With help from friends and fans in Fort Worth, Wills persuaded Burrus Mill and Elevator Company to sponsor the band on a radio show by advertising the mill's Light Crust Flour.
After two weeks of broadcasts, W. Lee O'Daniel, President of Burrus Mill, canceled the show because he did not like "their hillbilly music." The Light Crust Doughboys were literally "brought back by popular demand" when thousands of fans and housewives, who used Light Crust Flour, demanded that Burrus Mill sponsor their radio show. People listened at noon each day for a couple of licks on Bob Wills' fiddle and Truett Kimsey's enthusiastic introduction: "The Light Crust Doughboys are on the air."
In 1932, the original Doughboys began leaving the band. Milton Brown left the show that year to form the Musical Brownies, and in 1933, O'Daniel had to fire Bob Wills for drinking and failure to make the broadcasts. In 1933, Wills organized the Playboys in Waco. Of all the early Doughboys, Wills' influence was the most significant and enduring; the Light Crust Doughboys never departed from the fiddle-band origins Bob Wills established in the band's formative years. In October, 1933, O'Daniel took a new and talented group of Doughboys to Chicago for a recording session with Vocalion Records. O'Daniel, who deserves much credit along with Brown and Wills for the initial success of the Doughboys, continued as manager and announcer until the mid-thirties.
This rare early recording is part of a two-day session in Dallas on June 14 & 15, 1939. They cut eight songs in that one and this was the last of them to be spun out to the public. Even then, they put the coolest tune on the 'B' side of the record!
The side to note is "Jazzbo Joe" which is a novelty number with a kazoo. It's written by Smoky Montgomery, but has Jim Boyd on the vocals. On the topside is "Green Valley Trot" which is from a later date on November 24, 1939.
LISTEN TO PART OF THIS RECORD HERE!
CONDITION: E
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