Charleston Craze of 1925: Yes Sir, That's My Baby - Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra

Yes Sir, That's My Baby : Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra, Vocal by CACoon, Victor 1925 NOTE: I never have enough of that wonderful Kansas City dance band of the 1920s! I don't know a single recording of them, that could be called "weak" or "failed". Their music and their arrangements are an absolute heaven for every Roaring Twenties lover! Carleton Coon was a drummer and Joe Sanders was pianist. Sanders was known as "The Old Left Hander" because of his skills at baseball, but he gave the game up in the early 1920s to make dance music his career. Their orchestra began broadcasting in 1922 on channel station WDAF, which could be received throughout the United States. They took the name Nighthawks because they broadcast late at night from 11p.m. -1.00 am The broadcast guaranteed them quickly the popularity and national recognition. They became so popular that Western Union set up a ticker tape between Sanders' piano and Coon's drums so the telegrams could be acknowledged during the broadcasts. Their song "Nighthawk Blues" includes the lines: "Tune right in on the radio/Grab a telegram and say 'Hello'." In 1924 Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra left for Chicago to p[lay at The Blackhawk - an internationally known entertainment venue for the jazz band music. Two years later in 1926 they got an 11-month broadcast engagement in NYC at the Hotel New Yorker as a star attraction to induce radio stations to join the Columbia Broadcasting System. At their peak, each member of the ...