{"id":541,"date":"2011-09-16T02:09:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T07:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2019-12-03T19:41:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:41:47","slug":"hal-kemp-his-orchestra-late-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"Hal Kemp & His Orchestra – Late ’30s\/Early ’40s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Victor<\/a><\/p>\n

“Got A Date With An Angel”
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra
\nSkinnay Ennis, vocal
\n1937 (\u00a0Victor 25651-A)
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra – Got A Date With An Angel]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Lamplight”
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra
\nSkinnay Ennis, vocal
\n1937 (\u00a0Victor 25651-B)
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra – Lamplight]<\/a><\/p>\n

“You And Me”
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra
\nJudy Starr, vocal
\n1938 (\u00a0Victor 25869-A)
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra – You And Me]<\/a><\/p>\n

“So Lovely”
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra
\nBob Allen, vocal
\n1938 (\u00a0Victor 25869-B)
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra – So Lovely]<\/a><\/p>\n

“I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak”
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra
\nBob Allen, vocal
\n1939 (\u00a0Victor 26194-A)
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra – I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Have A Heart”
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra
\nBob Allen, vocal
\n1939 (\u00a0Victor 26194-A)
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra – Have A Heart]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Last Night”
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra
\nBob Allen, vocal
\n1939 (\u00a0Victor 26397-A)
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra – Last Night]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Many Dreams Ago”
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra
\nNan Wynn, vocal
\n1939 (\u00a0Victor 26397-B)
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra – Many Dreams Ago]<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Lady With Red Hair”
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra
\nBob Allen, vocal
\n1940 (\u00a0Victor 27203-B)
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra – The Lady With Red Hair]<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Moon Fell In The River”
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra
\nBob Allen, vocal
\n1940 (\u00a0Victor 27203-A)
\nHal Kemp And His Orchestra – The Moon Fell In The River]<\/a><\/p>\n

A recent update<\/a> featured several recordings by Hal Kemp<\/a> and His Orchestra from 1931.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are some more by the same band but from later in the decade.<\/p>\n

During the 1920s and 1930s trends in popular music evolved very rapidly – much more so than in recent decades.\u00a0 In an era when there were far fewer radio stations (and very few that devoted their entire broadcast day to music) and records were expensive to remain commercially viable in either medium required most bands to keep up with and follow those trends.<\/p>\n

This is why those who might enjoy a ’20s or ’30s recording by a particular band on Radio Dismuke and seek additional recordings by the band on CD reissue should exercise caution before spending too much money. \u00a0 A number of ’20s and ’30s era artists remained active and even continued to record into the ’60s and ’70s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A recording from the ’40s or ’50s by the same band whose 1920s recordings you enjoy is likely to have a very different sound – and, quite possibly, a sound you will not particularly enjoy.<\/p>\n

In these recordings made after Kemp changed his recording affiliation to Victor in June, 1937 the band’s transformation from a predominantly “hot” Jazz Age band into a predominantly “sweet” band of the big band era is complete.<\/p>\n

“Got A Date With An Angel” was Hal Kemp’s opening radio theme song.\u00a0\u00a0 It was also the theme song for vocalist Skinnay Ennis<\/a> after he left the Kemp band and formed his own band in 1938.\u00a0\u00a0 This recording is a very close remake of a 1934 recording of the song that Kemp and Ennis made on Brunswick and is, therefore,\u00a0 a bit different stylistically than the rest.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Kemp was killed as a result of a car accident in December 1940 while driving in heavy fog from Los Angeles to an engagement in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

9\/17\/11 Edit:\u00a0 Added “The Lady With Red Hair” and “The Moon Fell In The River” both of which I had prepared for this posting but initially forgot to include.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Got A Date With An Angel” Hal Kemp And His Orchestra Skinnay Ennis, vocal 1937 (\u00a0Victor 25651-A) Hal Kemp And His Orchestra – Got A Date With An Angel] “Lamplight” Hal Kemp And His Orchestra Skinnay Ennis, vocal 1937 (\u00a0Victor … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,9,16,22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6lko4-8J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}