 Lewis James and Elliot Shaw and Wilfred Glenn as the Revelers circa 1925 Image by Bain, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
The RevelersThe Revelers The Revelers American jazz quintet For the band formed in 2010, see The Revelers (Louisiana). Not to be confused with The Revels. The Revelers were an American quintet (four close harmony singers and a pianist) popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Revelers' recordings of "Dinah", "Old Man River", "Valencia", "Baby Face", "Blue Room", "The Birth of the Blues", "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba", and many more, became popular in the United States and then Europe in the late 1920s. They also produced the first known recording of "I've Been Working on the Railroad" in 1923. In August 1929, they appeared in the Netherlands with Richard Tauber at the Kurhaus, Scheveningen and the… (Source: Wikipedia)
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