"Gloria" was the character who starred in the newspaper serial and later one of the first radio dramas, The Flapper Wife, with Gene Austin singing the theme song accompanied by Nat Shilkrets orchestra, still under the name International Novelty Orchestra.
Here's a snappy tune from the ballroom of the Savoy Hotel in London, directed by B. L. Ralton and his Savoy Havana Band! This is probably around 1922 or 1923.
A peppy arrangement that introduces the tune "First Love" from "On with the Dance", a musical from the pen of Noel Coward, just 25 years old at this time, a playwright and song writer equal in talent and sophistication to Cole Porter whose future songs would become landmarks of the 30's and 40's!
I've no doubt this is one of the recordings that would have been played on the gramophone on that October, 1927 weekend when The Bright Young Things, including Cecil Beaton, Baby Jungman, Zita and Rosamond Lehman, Elinor Wylie, Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell assembled for a houseparty at Stephen Tennant's magnificent home Wilsford Manor!
Something of a hybrid, The Seven Champions is a pseudo for Bailey's Lucky Seven! The Arthur Fields vocal and fiddling after the vocal, plus other interesting sound effects, give it a distinct resemblance to a Fred Hall recording as well!
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