LABEL CREDITS OF 
BIX AND TRAM  ORIGINAL ISSUES
ON BRITISH PARLOPHONE

Compiled by Norman Field and Mike Thomas
Listed in Chronological Order

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER WITH HIS ORCHESTRA
       TRUMBOLOGY (R3419)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S ORCH. with Bix.
       CLARINET MARMALADE (R3323)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S ORCH. with Bix and Ed Lang.
       SINGIN’ THE BLUES (R3323)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER AND HIS ORCHESTRA.
            OSTRICH WALK (R3349)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER AND HIS ORCHESTRA.
            RIVERBOAT SHUFFLE (R3349)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER'S ORCHESTRA Featuring Bix Beiderbecke and Arthur Schutt
           I’M COMING VIRGINIA (R3361)

No copy available for inspection.
     ’WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS (R3361)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER, BIX BEIDERBECK, ED LANG and ARTHUR SCHUTT
(in their four-Piece Orchestra)
            FOR NO REASON AT ALL IN C (R3419)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S ORCH. with Bix, Lang, Rollini, Schutt and Joe Venuti.
            THREE BLIND MICE (Rhythmic Theme in Advanced Harmony) (R105)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S ORCH. with Bix Beiderbeck, Ed Lang, Adrian Rollini and Seger Ellis.
       BLUE RIVER (R3440)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S ORCH. with Bix Beiderbeck, Ed Lang, Adrian Rollini and Seger Ellis.
       THERE’S A CRADLE IN CAROLINE (R3440)

Piano Solo. BIX BEIDERBECK.
       BIXOLOGY (IN A MIST) (R3504)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER with BIX BEIDERBECK and ED LANG in their Three Piece Orchestra.
       WRINGIN’ AND TWISTIN’ (R3504)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S ORCH. with Bix, Lang, Rollini and Venuti.
       HUMPTY DUMPTY (R3464)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S ORCH. with Bix, Lang, Rollini, Schutt and Joe Venuti.
       KRAZY KAT (Tone Poem in Slow Rhythm) (R105)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S ORCH. with Bix, Lang, Rollini and Venuti.
       BALTIMORE (R3484)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA with Bix, Lang, Rollini and Venuti with Special Vocal Chorus
       JUST AN HOUR OF LOVE (R3463)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA with Bix, Lang, Rollini and Venuti with Special Vocal Chorus
            I’M WONDERIN’ WHO (R3463)

BIX BEIDERBECK presents HIS ORCHESTRA.
       AT THE JAZZ BAND BALL (R3465)

BIX BEIDERBECK presents HIS ORCHESTRA
            ROYAL GARDEN BLUES (R3465)

BIX BEIDERBECK presents HIS ORCHESTRA
            THE JAZZ ME BLUES (R127)

BIX BEIDERBECK presents HIS ORCHESTRA
       GOOSE PIMPLES (R127)

BIX BEIDERBECK presents HIS ORCHESTRA
       SORRY (R3503)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S ORCH. with Bix, Lang, Venuti & Rollini.
       A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND (R3489)

BIX BEIDERBECK presents HIS ORCHESTRA
       SINCE MY BEST GIRL TURNED ME DOWN (R3503)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S ORCH. with Bix, Lang, Venuti & Rollini.
       SUGAR (R3489)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER with HIS ORCHESTRA and HIS RHYTHM BOYS.
            THERE’LL COME A TIME (R3526)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER AND HIS ORCHESTRA
            JUBILEE (R161)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER with HIS ORCHESTRA and HIS RHYTHM BOYS
       MISSISSIPPI MUD (R3526)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA
       OUR BUNGALOW OF DREAMS (R142) Note 1

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER and his ORCHESTRA
       LILA (R141)

THE GOOFUS FIVE AND THEIR ORCHESTRA
            BORNEO (R203) Note 2

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER and his ORCHESTRA
       MY PET (R141)

BIX BEIDERBECK presents HIS ORCHESTRA
       SOMEBODY STOLE MY GAL (R161)

BIX BEIDERBECK AND HIS GANG
            THOU SWELL (R451) Note 3

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S NEW RHYTHM ORCHESTRA
       DUSKY STEVEDORE (R265)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S NEW RHYTHM ORCHESTRA
       TAKE YOUR TOMORROW (R265)

BIX BEIDERBECK AND HIS ORCHESTRA
       LOUISIANA (R298)

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S NEW RHYTHM ORCHESTRA
       SENTIMENTAL BABY (R298)

WILL PERRY’S ORCHESTRA
       LOUISE (E6209) Note 4

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S NEW RHYTHM ORCHESTRA
       WAIT TILL YOU SEE MA CHERIE (R398) Note 5

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER’S ORCHESTRA
       NO-ONE CAN TAKE YOUR PLACE (R420) Note 6

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER AND HIS ORCHESTRA.
            I LIKE THAT (R714) Note 7
 

* Gene Robertson kindly provided the information about the label
Note 1. Split coupling. Reverse: COQUETTE, Dorsey Bros Orchestra.
Note 2. Split coupling. Reverse: MAMA’S GONE YOUNG, PAPA’S GONE OLD, The Goofus Five And Their Orchestra.
Note 3. Split coupling. Reverse: I FEEL AT HOME WITH YOU, Irwin Abrams Orchestra.
Note 4. Split coupling. Reverse: SLEEPY VALLEY (Waltz), Justin Ring’s OKeh Orchestra.
Note 5. Split coupling. Reverse: LADY DIVINE (Waltz), Carolina Club Orchestra.
Note 6. Split coupling (?). Reverse: REACHIN’ FOR SOMEONE, Trumbauer Orch. sans Bix. This label credit is taken from the badge of the 1999 Tribute to Bix at Libertyville. IL., which, though computer-edited must (surely) have retained the original band credit.  I think this is the rarest Bix Parlophone.
Note 7. Split coupling. Reverse: SHIVERY STOMP, Seger Ellis. This is the only Bix side that ever appeared in the important Parlophone ‘New Rhythm Style Series’. There was, in fact, little need for any others, as the majority of the ‘original issues’ in the list above were still available at the time under their original catalogue numbers. I LIKE THAT is No.39 in the series. The Ellis side was No.40.

No claim for ubiquity, absolute correctness &c is made for this listing. It’s purely something that was done for the heck of it, prompted by a discussion in the forum of the Bix website. Thanks to Mike Thomas who helped me with several very rare entries, including the THOU SWELL original issue which I didn’t even know existed until I began this listing, and the only one that credits THE GANG! Nobody can say that other printings of these labels on earlier or later pressings, be they purple, black, magenta (or green) do not carry other wordings. The typesetting on these earlier Parlophone labels is pretty idiosyncratic, and for all their ‘luxury’ as issues, there is a certain amateurishness about the way the information is laid out, besides their rather smudgy printing that would never have been tolerated by OKeh, let alone Victor! But that is all part of their appeal, and when (or rather if) your trembling hand draws a ‘junked’ mint purple Parlophone of Bix from the characteristic blue packet in which it has lain for seventy-two years, you better believe me, the wording on the label WON’T MATTER A DARN!!

I am grateful to Norman Field for giving me permission to post this list in the Bixography web site. For additional information about English Parlophones, images of selected records, and a provocative discussion of Frankie Trumbauer's playing alto saxophone, visit Norman Field's web site at http://members.netscapeonline.co.uk/normancsax/discog.htm

 


 

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