Hal Kemp And His Orchestra – 1931

” I’ve Got A Sweet Somebody To Love Me”
Hal Kemp And His Orchestra
Skinnay Ennis, vocal
1931 (Brunswick 6071)
Hal Kemp And His Orchestra – I’ve Got A Sweet Somebody To Love Me]

“I Want You For Myself”
Hal Kemp And His Orchestra
Skinnay Ennis, vocal
1931 (Brunswick 6056)
Hal Kemp And His Orchestra – I Want You For Myself]

“By Special Permission Of The Copyright Owner”
Hal Kemp And His Orchestra
Skinnay Ennis, vocal
1931 (Brunswick 6055)
Hal Kemp And His Orchestra – By Special Permission]

“Little Joe”
Hal Kemp And His Orchestra
Skinnay Ennis, vocal
1931 (Brunswick 6071)
Hal Kemp And His Orchestra – Little Joe]

“Would You Like To Take A Walk”
Hal Kemp And His Orchestra
Hal Kemp, vocal
1931 (Brunswick 6055)
Hal Kemp And His Orchestra – Would You Like To Take A Walk]

Hal Kemp’s band was active from 1925 until his untimely death in 1940.  Like most long running bands,  it “kept up with the times” in terms of adjusting to the era’s rapidly evolving musical trends.

In these recordings, which come from three recording sessions held in mid-February 1931, the Kemp band still has a hot “jazz age” sound left over from the 1920s.   In a future update I will feature some of the band’s recordings from a few years later which have a very different style and sound.

The song title “By Special Permission of the Copyright Owner” refers to a phrase that was frequently heard on early network radio broadcasts.  Up to about 1932, radio stations were required to air the phrase whenever they aired copyrighted songs as part of their music publishers’ licensing agreements.