{"id":612,"date":"2011-10-04T03:40:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T08:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2019-12-03T19:44:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:44:17","slug":"sleepy-hall-and-his-collegians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy Hall And His Collegians"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Melotone<\/a>\"Variety<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea”
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegians; Paul Small, vocal
\n1931 (Melotone M 12292)
\nSleepy Hall & His Collegians – Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Fate Introduced Me To You”
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegians; Paul Small, vocal
\n1931 (Melotone M 12292)
\nSleepy Hall & His Collegians – Fate Introduced Me To You]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Come To Me”
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegians; Elmer Feldkamp, vocal
\n1931 (Melotone M 12217)
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegians – Come To Me]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Within This Heart Of Mine”
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegians; Elmer Feldkamp, vocal
\n1931 (Melotone M 12217)
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegians – Within This Heart Of Mine]<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’m With You”
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegians; Tony Sacco, vocal
\n1931 (Melotone M 12236)
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegians – I’m With You]<\/a><\/p>\n

“I Don’t Know Why”
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegians; Russ Lyon, vocal
\n1931 (Melotone M 12236)
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegians – I Don’t Know Why]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Dancing On The Ceiling”
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegian; Tony Starr, vocal
\n1932 (Melotone M 12311)
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegians – Dancing On The Ceiling]<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Wooden Soldier And The China Doll”
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegian; Tony Starr, vocal
\n1932 (Melotone M 12311)
\nSleepy Hall And His Collegians – The Wooden Soldier And The China Doll]<\/a><\/p>\n

“One Hour With You”
\nSleepy Hall & His Collegians; Smith Ballew, vocal
\n1932 (Melotone\u00a0 M 12331)
\nSleepy Hall & His Collegians – One Hour With You]<\/a><\/p>\n

“We Will Always Be Sweethearts”
\nSleepy Hall & His Collegians; Andrea Marsh, vocal
\n1932 (Melotone M 12331)
\nSleepy Hall & His Collegians – We Will Always Be Sweethearts]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Gosh Darn”
\nSleepy Hall & His Collegians; Bill Coty, Harold van Emburgh, vocal
\n1932 (Melotone M 12355)
\nSleepy Hall & His Collegians – Gosh Darn]<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Roses Are Red The Violets Are Blue”
\nSleepy Hall & His Collegians; Harold van Emburgh, vocal
\n1932 (Melotone M 12355)
\nSleepy Hall & His Collegians – The Roses Are Red The Violets Are Blue]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Sleepy Time Gal”
\nSleepy Hall And His Orchestra; Sleepy Hall, vocal
\n1937 (Variety VA583 mx M485)
\nSleepy Hall And His Orchestra – Sleepy Time Gal]<\/a><\/p>\n

“That Old Oaken Bucket”
\nSleepy Hall And His Orchestra; Paul Dillon, vocal
\n1937 (Variety VA583 mx M486)
\nSleepy Hall And His Orchestra – That Old Oaken Bucket]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Sleepy Hall And His Collegians” was a recording pseudonym for the in-house studio orchestra on Brunswick’s budget priced Melotone subsidiary label.\u00a0\u00a0 The use of recording pseudonyms was extremely common on bargain labels in the ’20s and early ’30s.\u00a0 To buy a recording of a big name artist one had to pay full price of 75 cents verses 35 cents (or three for a dollar) for most bargain labels.<\/p>\n

Sometimes recording pseudonyms were named after actual musicians who very often had little or even no participation in the recordings issued under their name. This seems to have been the case with Sleepy Hall And His Collegians.\u00a0\u00a0 There actually was a musician known as Sleepy Hall – he was a banjoist whose real name was John Nelson.\u00a0 But any connection between the real life Sleepy Hall and these Melotone recordings is apparently either non-existent or unknown.<\/p>\n

The last two recordings come from the late 1930s Variety label, a short-lived label founded by music publisher Irving Mills.\u00a0\u00a0 According to Brian Rust’s American Dance Band Discography<\/em>, no details are known about the personnel involved in the recording session.\u00a0\u00a0 However, by 1937, the use of recording pseudonyms had largely faded away as a result of Decca’s 1934 entry into the American market offering recordings by name artists for 35 cents.\u00a0 This makes me wonder if perhaps the real Sleepy Hall was the bandleader and vocalist credited on the label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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