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Trumpet player Edward Farley and trombonist Mike Riley were working at the Onyx club in New York with the singer Red McKenzie's five-piece band when, in September 1935, they happened to compose and record a novelty number for Decca Records (with lyrics supplied by Red Hodgson) called "The Music Goes 'Round and Around."
The Music Goes 'Round is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Harry Richman, Rochelle Hudson and Walter Connolly. [1] It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures .
Riley played both trumpet and trombone, and by 1927 was working in New York City, playing trumpet in Jimmy Durante's band at the Parody Club. He soon found work in several local bands as a trombonist, then co-led an ensemble with Eddie Farley, with whom he held a regular gig at the Onyx Club and wrote several songs including "The Music Goes Round and Round". [3]
In 1956, he also had one of the biggest hits of his own career with "The Music Goes Round and Round", followed up by "Nervous Boogie" in 1957, "Windy" in 1958, and "The Hunch" in 1959. [ 3 ] In 1960, he moved to Los Angeles with his wife, Odile, to run the Chess operations there.
Music Goes Round and Round is a Tommy Dorsey album of Dixieland recordings from 1935 to 1947, that predated the New Orleans revival in 1940. [1] Track listing
The Music Goes Round [ed. Andrew Farkas]. New Haven: Ayer, 1977. Lipman, Samuel,The House of Music: Art in an Era of Institutions, 1984. See the chapter on "Getting on Record", pp. 62–75, about the early record industry, Fred Gaisberg, Walter Legge and FFRR (Full Frequency Range Recording). Gelatt, Roland, The Fabulous Phonograph. New York ...
"The Music Goes Round and Round" [8] Victor 25201: May 25, 1936 () August 1936 () US BB 1936 #7, US #1 for 5 weeks, 9 total weeks 8: Shep Fields and His Rippling ...
The song was influenced by the Jamaican ska music that was currently popular among London's mod scene. [1] Much in the same way The Beatles song " Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da " would be the following year. The single was released in the U.K., Australia, Brazil and New Zealand.