About Us | Contact | Subscribe

Home: 20's Jazz

The Duck's Yas Yas Yas

Oliver Cobb & His Rhythm Kings

Benny Jackson, Edith Johnson, Ernest Franklin, Freddie Martin, Lester Nicholas, Oliver Cobb, Singleton Palmer, Walter Martin

Subscribe to 20's Jazz

Navigation:

Home

Back

More videos like this

Recorded in Chicago on August 16th 1929 featuring Oliver Cobb cornet & vocals, Freddie Martin clarinet & alto sax, Walter Martin alto sax, Ernest Franklin tenor sax, Edith Johnson piano, Benny Jackson banjo, Singleton Palmer bass brass, and Lester Nicholas drums. -To Flip Over The Record Click Here.

*"The Duck's Yas Yas Yas" was written by James 'Stump' Johnson.

According to his recording companions for a solitary Paramount session in Grafton, Wisconsin thought to have been held in early September 1930 Oliver Cobb drowned in Lake Michigan a short time later. However this story is in direct conflict with an article published in the St. Louis Argus on January 2nd 1931 under the headline "Brunswick Recording Orchestra Re-organized" which stated "due to illness Oliver Cobb former leader of the "Brunswick Recording Orchestra" has resigned and a permanent organization has been formed". It would seem that either Townsend was repeating a rumor or had fabricated the entire tale. The article went on to name "Ed Johnson, pianist and arranger" as the new leader and reported that the band name had been changed to the "Crackerjacks". No matter the cause Oliver Cobb died no later than 1931.