Nice short, with a young Roy Fox on trumpet, who became a famous bandleader in London... Gus Arnheim (September 4, 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- January 19, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) was an early popular band leader. He is noted for writing several songs with his first hit being "I Cried for You" from 1923. He was most popular in the 1920s and 1930s.He also had a few small acting roles. In 1930-31, Arnheim had an extended engagement at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. When Paul Whiteman finished filming The King of Jazz for Universal, The Rhythm Boys vocal trio, consisting of Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker decided to stay in California and they signed up with Arnheim's band. While the Rhythm Boys only recorded one song with Arnheim, "Them There Eyes", which also happened to be The Rhythm Boys final recording, Arnheim's Orchestra backed Crosby on a number of songs released by Victor Records in 1931.These popular records, coupled with Arnheim's radio broadcasts featuring Crosby's solo vocals, were a key element to the beginning of Crosby's popularity as a crooner. In 1919 three men who all would become famous band leaders played together at the Sunset Inn in Santa Monica, California. Arnheim played piano, Abe Lyman played the drums, and Henry Halstead played violin. In 1930 and 1931, some notable people worked in or with Arnheim's band: Fred MacMurray played clarinet and tenor sax in 1930-31 and sang on one recording ("All I Want Is Just One" on 3 .... + Informações

Two decades before Jimmy Dorsey's splendid version would revive the song for a new generation, "So Rare" was riding high, thanks to recordings by both Guy Lombardo and the swinging Gus Arnheim band (which included a young Stan Kenton on piano). 78rpm courtesy of Rick's Vault: Brunswick 7919 - So Rare (Sharpe-Herst) by Gus Arnheim & His Orchestra, vocal by Jimmy Farrell. Recorded 6/23/37.. + Informações

GUS ARNHEIM and his COCOANUT GROVE ORCHESTRA Reel 2584, March 1928 Only recently recovered, and with the print showing a fair degree of nitrate decomposition, this vitaphone was made at the same session as the well known (amongst collectors) "Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors" short, and also features the hot violin of Russ Columbo. Soloists are Roy Fox and Ray Lopez. Nelson Hall is the vocalist. Songs: "Always" (Berlin), "I Can't do Without You" (Berlin) "La Rosita," "Stay Out of the South." None of this film seems to have been previously on YouTube.. + Informações

Romantic radio version of Sweet and Lovely, with intimate glimpses of your favorite Talkie Stars at play in Hollywood's famous Cocoanut Grove! Coupled with a snappy foxtrot, hear the captivating sounds of Gus Arnheim's band from 1931, as Hollywood steps out ! Try to guess as many stars.... + Informações

Gus Arnheim's famous West Coast Orchestra, including trumpeters Roy Fox and Ray Lopez (who takes the solo), violinist Russ Columbo, trombonist Norman Taylor and clarinetist Jimmy Grier with an inspired rendering of Nick La Rocca's "Tiger Rag".. + Informações

"Sweet And Lovely" Gus Arnheim Orchestra Vocal Chorus by Donald Novis (1931) Fox-Trot. + Informações

From my favorite talkie, 20's personality Ken Murray performs a hot 20s number in his earliest surviving appearance! Gus Arnheim's orchestra gives the music as he puts over a song as he did in Vaudeville, having already amused audiences for three years as a popular comedian and master of ceremonies on the RKO Vaudeville circuit . Gus Arnheims Orchestra is "up in the clouds" in a clever stage set that echoed the latest air travel craze to catch the publics fancy: the arrival in New York of the enormous German dirigible, the Graf Zeppelin, the latest triumph in progress and modern engineering. Like a giant silvery cigar, It floated over America all through August with daily radio reports of its lumbering progress, thrilling America with its sightings, holding a promise of great luxury air travel just ahead in the rosey future that prosperous 1929 would surely bring! Newspapers heralded its coming as the "Dawn of a New Era". Hollywood saw big box office potential in the floating marvel and every studio rushed to produce an all talking dirigible picture! Howard Huges had "Hells Angels", Paramount had "Lottery Bride", Fox had "Just Imagine", Columbia had "Dirigible", Tiffany-Stahl had "Lost Zeppilin", MGM had "Madam Satan", RKO had "Half Marriage", etc. Wonderfully, all these films survive to this day. Gus Arnheims trio included Russ Columbo at this time. He can be spotted on the right! Such a treat for Columbo fans! Ken Murrays acting career was hit and miss over the years .... + Informações

This is from a 1932 Coconut Grove broadcast on the Sunbeam label HB-304. Most of the images are from my collection.. + Informações

This is Victor Recording of 1930: Gus Arnheim & His Coconut Grove Orchestra, vocals: Donald Novis, Jack Smith & The Ambassadors - Just One More Chance, Victor 1930 A few reasons make this performance so different: first, Donald Novis sings in a duett (with Jack Smith), second: chorus is also made by The Ambassadors, third: all of them are accompanied by Gus Arnheim orchestra from LA Coconut Grove. Some other recordings (also uploaded in YT, in a couple of sites) are made by Gus Arnheim Orch. with the solo refrain by Donald Novis.. + Informações

Many personalities of Marilyn Monroe: Theda Bara, Marlene Dietrich, Gibson Girl, Jean Harlow, Clara Bow and Marilyn as Herself. + Informações

Gus Arnheim (Sept.4,1897 in Philadelphia, Penns. - Jan.19,1955 in Los Angeles, Cal.) was an early popular band leader. He is noted for writing several songs with his first hit being I Cried for You from 1923. He was most popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He also had a few small acting roles. In 1930-31, Arnheim had an extended engagement at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. When Paul Whiteman finished filming The King of Jazz for Universal, The Rhythm Boys vocal trio, consisting of Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker decided to stay in California and they signed up with Arnheim's band. While the Rhythm Boys only recorded one song with Arnheim, "Them There Eyes", which also happened to be The Rhythm Boys final recording, Arnheim's Orchestra backed Crosby on a number of songs released by Victor Records in 1931. These popular records, coupled with Arnheim's radio broadcasts featuring Crosby's solo vocals, were a key element to the beginning of Crosby's popularity as a crooner. In 1919 three men who all would become famous band leaders played together at the Sunset Inn in Santa Monica, California. Arnheim played piano, Abe Lyman played the drums, and Henry Halstead played violin. Gus Arnheim Orchestra - If I Can't Have You (1928). + Informações

Gus Arnheim & His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra - Singin' In The Rain, Fox-trot from MGM picture "Hollywood Revue of 1929", Victor 1929 NOTE: Gus ARNHEIM (b.1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- d.1955 in Los Angeles, California) American bandleader and composer (he is noted for writing several songs with his first hit being "I Cried for You" from 1923). He grew up in Chicago and for some time he was accompanist to a famous vadeuvillian, Sophie Tucker. In 1919 he travelled to California, where he joined drummer Abe Lyman and violinist Henry Halstead to make a trio at the Sunset Inn, in Santa Monica. When Lyman organized a full dance orchestra, Arnheim came along as pianist, leaving to start his own group in 1927. His band was most popular thru late 1920s and early 1930s, when he had an extended engagement at the Cocoanut Grove in Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. In 1930, when Paul Whiteman finished filming The King of Jazz, The Rhythm Boys vocal trio, consisting of Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker decided to stay in California and they signed up with Arnheim's band. While the Rhythm Boys only recorded one song with Arnheim, "Them There Eyes", which also happened to be The Rhythm Boys final recording, Arnheim's Orchestra backed Crosby on a number of songs released by Victor in 1931. These popular records, coupled with Arnheim's radio broadcasts featuring Crosby's solo vocals, were a key element to the beginning of Crosby's popularity as a crooner. Some more notable .... + Informações

Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra, with Vocal refrain (Buster Dees) -- This Is Heaven, Fox-Trot from United Artists picture "This Is Heaven" (Yellen /Akst) , Victor 1929 NOTE: THIS IS HEAVEN (1929) This film was to have been Robert Montgomery's first talkie. He was hired to play opposite Hungarian silent star Vilma Banky in this silent film with talking sequences which was produced by United Artists. The film was also Vilma Banky's first talkie, however it failed to provide her with a stable position in a newly developing talkie movie business. Production had begun on the film when director Alfred Santell suddenly decided Montgomery couldn't act and he was subsequently fired. He was replaced by rather indistinctive James Hall and Montgomery moved on to MGM where that unusually handsome and talented actor obtained enormous succes in a musical movie comedy: So This is College. ------------------------------------------ Vilma Bánky (b. Vilma Koncsics 1901 in Nagydorog, Austria-Hungary -- d. 1991) was a Hungarian-born American silent film actress, although the early part of her acting career began in Budapest, spreading to France, Austria, and Germany. Banky was best known for her roles in The Eagle and The Son of the Sheik with Rudolph Valentino and several romantic teamings with Ronald Colman. Her father was a bureau chief under Franz Joseph's Austro-Hungarian Empire. Shortly after her birth, her father was transferred to Budapest, and the family relocated. After graduation .... + Informações

A #3 hit for Bing Crosby in 1931 and #7 for Henry Busse and His Orchestra, also in 1931. Sung by Woody Allen in "Everyone Says I Love You". Written by Gus Kahn and Fud Livingston.. + Informações

Gus Arnheim & His Ambassador Hotel Orch. - Feelin' Good, with Vocal Chorus Columbia 1928 (USA) NOTE: Gus Arnheim (1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- 1955 in Los Angeles, California) whose rendition of "Singin' In The Rain" I uploaded here a few days ago - was called "the Star of the Entertainers" and the "Entertainer of the Stars". His extended engagement at the Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in late 1920s thru mid 1930s made him one of the brightest shining West Coast stars of the dance music, along with such celebrities as Whiteman, Abe Lyman or Art Hickman. Here is one of Arnheim's earlier releases of 1928 - when shortly after he left Abe Lyman's band to establish his own group, he still recorded for Columbia. In later years he switched to Victor Records, where his best and hottest dance numbers were immortalised. See my newest uploading at Dailymotion www.dailymotion.com. + Informações

Here is Gus Arnheim & his Orchestra with Bing Crosby (Vocal) and It Must be True composed by Barris, Arnheim, & Clifford and recorded on a 1930 Victor Orthophonic Record. Credenza Orthophonic Victrola. + Informações

Music Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics (if there were one) by Arthur Freed.. + Informações

This is from a 1932 Coconut Grove broadcast on the Sunbeam label HB-304. Most of the images are from my collection.. + Informações

Gus Arnheim (September 4, 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- January 19, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) was an early popular band leader. He is noted for writing several songs with his first hit being "I Cried for You" from 1923. He was most popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He also had a few small acting roles. In 1930-31, Arnheim had an extended engagement at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. When Paul Whiteman finished filming The King of Jazz for Universal, The Rhythm Boys vocal trio, consisting of Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker decided to stay in California and they signed up with Arnheim's band. While the Rhythm Boys only recorded one song with Arnheim, "Them There Eyes", which also happened to be The Rhythm Boys final recording, Arnheim's Orchestra backed Crosby on a number of songs released by Victor Records in 1931. These popular records, coupled with Arnheim's radio broadcasts featuring Crosby's solo vocals, were a key element to the beginning of Crosby's popularity as a crooner. In 1919 three men who all would become famous band leaders played together at the Sunset Inn in Santa Monica, California. Arnheim played piano, Abe Lyman played the drums, and Henry Halstead played violin. Gus Arnheim died from a heart attack in Los Angeles on January 19, 1955.. + Informações

From the movie, "Paramount on Parade" in which it was sung by Maurice Chevalier. B-side of "Dancing to Save Your Sole", another song from the movie. Recorded March 30, 1930. Written by Leo Robin and Richard Whiting.. + Informações

Gus Arnheim (Sept.4,1897 in Philadelphia, Penns. - Jan.19,1955 in Los Angeles, Cal.) was an early popular band leader. He is noted for writing several songs with his first hit being I Cried for You from 1923. He was most popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He also had a few small acting roles. In 1930-31, Arnheim had an extended engagement at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. Gus Arnheim and his Cocoanut Grove Orchestra - I'm Doin' That Thing (1930). + Informações

recorded 10/29/1931 vocal by Loyce Whiteman and male trio. + Informações

recorded 4/28/1929 vocal by Craig Leitch. + Informações

Gus Arnheim (Sept.4,1897 in Philadelphia, Penns. - Jan.19,1955 in Los Angeles, Cal.) was an early popular band leader. He is noted for writing several songs with his first hit being I Cried for You from 1923. He was most popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He also had a few small acting roles. In 1930-31, Arnheim had an extended engagement at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. When Paul Whiteman finished filming The King of Jazz for Universal, The Rhythm Boys vocal trio, consisting of Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker decided to stay in California and they signed up with Arnheim's band. While the Rhythm Boys only recorded one song with Arnheim, "Them There Eyes", which also happened to be The Rhythm Boys final recording, Arnheim's Orchestra backed Crosby on a number of songs released by Victor Records in 1931. These popular records, coupled with Arnheim's radio broadcasts featuring Crosby's solo vocals, were a key element to the beginning of Crosby's popularity as a crooner. In 1919 three men who all would become famous band leaders played together at the Sunset Inn in Santa Monica, California. Arnheim played piano, Abe Lyman played the drums, and Henry Halstead played violin. Gus Arnheim and his Orchestra - Feelin' Good (1929). + Informações

La Rosita Music by Paul Dupont, lyrics by Allan Stuart Gus Arnhein and his Cocoanut Grove Orchestra Vocal refrain by Samuel Pedraza Recorded January 19, 1931 Victor 22618 "La Rosita", first published in 1923 and used to accompany the silent film "Rosita" starring Mary Pickford. The record label and sheet music credit the composition to Paul Dupont which was a pseudonym for Gustave Haenschen, the recording director of Brunswick Records between 1920 and 1927. It was Haenschen who was leader of the Carl Fenton Orchestra for Brunswick.. + Informações