Little Ramblers: Those Panama Mamas, Prince of Wails, Varsity Eight: Copenhagen, Hard Hearted Hannah, Those Panama Mamas, Goofus Five: Choo Choo, Go 'Long Mule (Ernest Hare voc), California Ramblers: One Week Ago, Eliza, Look'a What I Got Now, Tessie Stop Teasin Me (Arthur Hall voc.), Doo Wacka Doo (Arthur Hall voc.) Southern Rose, Where the Lazy Daisies Grow, Somebody Loves Me.

Congratulations, you have arrived where hit tunes are converted into jazz. The Ramblers in their various forms were a way of life, extensively recorded. Irving Brodsky and Rollini are credited with the arrangements. The ODJB taught horn players to include animal sounds in their repertoire, no worry with this crew. Prominent trickster Bill Moore presides and drummer Stan King adds vocal imitations of a cornet. Bobby Davis on saxophone, with Rollini making it an elite reed section. Henderson learned much from this crew.

Male vocalists coming over from ragtime and vaudeville are Ernest Hare, Arthur Hall, also Billy Jones at times. Of course there was Cliff Edwards in 1924. The recording of notable male jazz singers is a later development probably starts with Armstrong and Cab Calloway. Fats Waller, Jimmy Rushing, Harry Mills, Donald Mills fill in the niche. The Mills Bros started around 1924. In this year era we have Edwards and the kazoo singing of King or McKenzie, that led directly to the Mills Brothers barbershop breakthrough. Nothing insufficient about Hall, Hare, Jones et al. Just that the advanced artistry takes off with Armstrong, Calloway and the Mills Bros. Calloway more a linguist and show icon than pure singer. Waller was perhaps the most phenomenally successful during his abbreviated run but was prominently a comedian (although primarily talented in classical piano- compare Victor Borge), Rushing probably is the dominant male jazz singer as the essential voice to the KC blues sound. Later on come the hit makers like Nat Cole, Eckstein, Torme.

The women blues singers very early sang jazz, like Ethel Waters and Alberta Hunter, Eva Taylor, but male singers in that era like Clarence Williams were not heard of. Jolson and Cantor were not jazz or blues singers with the authenticity of Marion Harris. Even during the run of such legends as Armstrong and Calloway or the Mills Brothers we tend to think more about the women as advancing the art: Holiday, Fitzgerald and the Boswell Sisters. Eckstein, Hibbler seem like jazz specialists given the main stage is for male pop stars like Sinatra, Crosby and Bennett. Some of the damage of class divisions, segregation and Jim Crow besides the obvious impacts is the absence of blues style among the hotel bands.

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