Masquerade03 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I just discovered Billy Bartholomew and I have to say I am impressed.

shmoopiebb (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

this is so sad - a beautiful and artistic time period cut short by a bunch of psychos, long live 20s berlin!!!

Squarerig (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Wer erinnert sich an Shellack Souvenirs von Bayern 3 in den 80er Jahren?Dieser Sender hat wunderbare Musik ausgestrahlt.Dieser Beitrag ist erstklassig,Danke!

78timothy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This is the best!! version of this song. I have the Brunswick of this with Bob Haring and his Orch. and also the Broadcast 7" (7'6p) with Harry Bidgood and his Broadcasters both good but this tops them !! From 1930- During the Weimar Republic (Loose and naughty ) even by today's standards. Nice Big Band Sound.

MusicalFeelings (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Absolutely gorgeous!!

240252 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yes, the jazz-symphony (or sinfonie) in the late 1920s meant, that the band plays the dance Jazz music based upon the collective "symphony" kind of an arrangement (not so much the solo-instrumental bias).

randersonwa (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Ja ja ... the recordings of the time may have had "symphony" or "symphonie" or even "symphone." They were phonetic transcriptions of an English word commonly known in large-city Germany at the time, and could be spelled as such on record labels. You also saw it in "jass" or "jazz" or even "jaze," depending on where you were in Europe before the darkness fell (1933). A lovely, humane time that needs to be remembered more, by the way.

ralftolosa (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

just wunderbar.

girlkid1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Wonderful quality for a piece of it's age. Thanks for the memories.

rejectomorph (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It's a German band, and "sinfonie" is the German spelling of the word. The big dance bands of the twenties and thirties in Germany were frequently billed as "Jazz-Sinfonie-Orchester (name of leader)"