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From the Record Shelves #313 – High Society – The discography says: “1945 Mon 12th February. Recording for Dr. Frederick B.Exner at C.P. MacGregor Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles.” Four numbers resulted, and Kid Ory, who had assembled a band for the Mercury Radio show about a year earlier (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #250 – Ory’s Creole Trombone – Kid Ory recorded his composition as early as 1922 in Los Angeles and again in Chicago in 1927 with an exuberant Louis Armstrong. But this version, again from the West Coast, recorded in Hollywood in 1945 (…) read more and listenread more and listen