Imperial Dance Orchestra - Can't We Be Friends?

2011-08-06 1

This pseudonym was used for a lot of different orchestras. Rust lists this as an Adrian Schubert session. Schubert was an extremely prolific musical director and bandleader. However, if one considers a "bandleader" to be the captain at the helm of a somewhat regular group of individuals working together, Schubert was no bandleader at all. Every record he made came out under another band name; many of the same individual players were hired for some of these sessions as well. The number of aliases is staggering, so it is almost impossible to know who really was behind the credits. To make confusion complete, finally, it should be noted that several of the pseudonyms were used for different bands - not just Schubert's (in itself not very stable) orchestra. Personally I find this recording to have a sound rather similar to Bob Haring's band. Whatever, this great record was made in 1929, with a vocal by Jerry White.