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Roaring 20s: Colonial Club Orchestra - If You Blieved In Me, 1929

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Colonial Club Orchestra (Bob Haring’s Band) – If You Believed In Me, Fox-Trot, Brunswick 1929 (USA)

NOTE: Bob Haring  led one of the most prolific dance orchestras during the Roaring Twenties in USA.  As the musical director of Cameo Records: the small “dime store” company, he performed under dozens of pseudonyms, until in 1925 he signed with Brunswick Records, where he started leading led the Colonial Club Orchestra. He also released sides under his own name Bob Haring and His Orchestra. The enormous success of multitude of the elegant social style dance records waxed extensively by Colonial Club Orchestra, promoted Bob Haring to be offered in 1929 the position of musical director of Brunswick Records. Unfortunately, the change of the public taste in the advent of the swing era as well as the economical crisis during the Great Depression broke spine of the most of Jazz Age dance bands in the US and Bob Haring’s was no exception. After 1931 his band disappears from the labels of American dance records.   

The name as well as the classy society sound of Colonial Club Orchestra inspired me to choose for the slideshow several  photographs – sometimes really picturesque, yet sometimes simply shameful – of the colonial times, which the West European and American upper classes used to spend on travels around the world or in their residences and luxurious hotels in the Middle East, Northern Africa or Asia. Many of us, readers of unforgettable novels of Agatha Christie, will forever associate those old views of the Shepherd’s or Mena hotels in Cairo with the small figure of the cunning Belgian detective Hercules Poirot  and his passed forever domain of the luxury, sophisticated flappers, bored cocainists, ruined actresses and their merciless young lovers. I am sure, all that gang did enjoy the kind of music the Colonial Club Orchestra performed.

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