My Gal, My Pal
CD Timeless Historical CBC 1-048
This was recorded in March 1925, a hundred years ago, but it still hasn’t reached its “best before date” limit. The lively performance was recorded in Buffalo, New York, with portable recording equipment and released on Okeh.
The band that managed to vary its sound by doubling instruments and by means of a carefully worked-out arrangement, which consists of only five musicians (trumpet, saxes, piano, banjo, and drums), is called Blue Ribbon Syncopaters.