Die Goldene Sieben... " 'Tain't No Use" / "Swingin' The Jinx Away" (1937)
Today's video features another great recording by Die Goldene Sieben. This is in my opinion one of the orchestra's best records and is once again the proof that swing and jazz were not forbidden in the Third Reich (which does not mean that there were no measures discouraging this type of music or propaganda against it).
" 'Tain't No Uwe" is perhaps best known in the version recorded by Benny Goodman and his orchestra. When compared to the Goodman recording it becomes apparent that the version recorded by Die Goldene Sieben is more uptempo.
Cole Porter's "Swingin' The Jinx Away" was featured in the 1936 Eleanor Powell musical "Born to Dance". To avoid copyright problems the video features a dance sequence from the 1936 B-movie "Dancing Feet" - a Republic release starring Isabel Jewell, Joan Marsh and Ben Lyon.
According to Horst H. Lange the Goldene Sieben are : Georg Haentzschel, Kurt Hohenberger, Franz Thon, Harold M. Kirchstein, Adalbert Luczkowski, Hans Korseck, Rudi Wegener, Bruno Saenger, Erhard Krause and Ernst Höllerhagen.
The record is an HMV pressing - quite used. The previous owner must have loved "Tain't No Use" since wrote "nice" on a sticker on the label.
About the record:
" 'Tain't No Use" / "Swingin' The Jinx Away"
Die Goldene Sieben und Ihr Orchester
His Master's Voice
E.G. 3915 / mx. ORA 1912-1 / ORA 1913-I
Berlin,
April 1937