День: 10.12.2012

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The new band’s first recording date, for Decca Records on December 20, 1938, produced three sides on which they backed an obscure vocalist, Rodney Sturgess, and two novelty sides of their own, “Honey in the Bee Ball” and “Barnacle Bill the Sailor”. These recordings were credited to the Elks Rendezvous Band, but Jordan subsequently changed the name to the Tympany Five, since Martin often used tympani in performance. (The word tympany is also an old fashioned colloquial term meaning “swollen, inflated, puffed up”, etymologically related to timpani, or kettledrums, but…

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