Blanche Calloway And Her Joy Boys - Just A Crazy Song (unissued take 1) @nickdellow6073

Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

Blanche Calloway And Her Joy Boys play "Just A Crazy Song". This is the unissued take 1 (take 2 is the issued take), transferred from a vinyl master 78 pressed in the 1990s from the original metal master. The sound quality is superb.

BLANCHE CALLOWAY AND HER JOY BOYS
Blanche Calloway, vocals, directing: Joe Keyes, Edgar Battle and Clarence Smith - trumpets / Alton Moor - trombone / Booker Pitman and Leroy Hardy - alto sax / Ben Webster - tenor sax / Clyde Hart - piano / Andy Jackson - guitar / Joe Durham - brass bass / Cozy Cole - drums

Recorded in Camden, New Jersey, March 27th, 1931

68938-1…….Just A Crazy Song (Hi-Hi-Hi)…….Vinyl master 78

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