This side as of posting has not been on youtube before, and I really love it.
Bennie Krueger was one of the more essential early jazz figures, as he was one of the first -if not debatably the first- Jazz saxophonists to be put onto wax. Also being a decent songwriter (Sunday in 1926, I Don't Know Why in 1931). Being originally a studio artist for Victor, getting a start with the Original Dixieland Jazz/Jass Band as the 20s began, and continued onwards through the 20s being in Bailey's Lucky Seven, having a short-lived studio soloist career, and having a remarkable 9 to 10-peice dance band that turned hot. Going by \"Bennie Krueger & His Orchestra\" over record and radio. His sax was very recognizable with his consistent use of the Slap Tongue Technique and muting. Notably he had fantastic early vocal trio known as The Brox Sisters too.
While recording for the ODJB, and several dance orchestras across Okeh and Emerson, Krueger assembled a small band of his own for Gennett and Pathe's Actuelle known as Krueger's Melody Syncopators in the fall of 1920. By December, he got the attention of Brunswick having him record for them going into 1921, briefly having a few records on Victor and HMV, along with several other dimestore and smaller labels including Olympic, Vocalion, Cameo, Okeh, Connorized and others, though Gennett and Brunswick got the majority of recordings. By 1924 it was almost always Brunswick he was recording under, picking up the only exception this year: Vocalion in which he would continue recording with until 1926. Columbia would fill the void that Vocalion left lasting until 1927, though like usual it's still Brunswick who had him most. Though around 1928 his band would record significantly less, Victor would take him up for a few sides in 1929, and he would stop for a few years to go into radio, returning to Brunswick in 1932 briefly with probably entirely different personnel, going on Columbia too lasting until mid 1934 before disbanding entirely. In the late 40s he formed another band to briefly record for United Artists and Enterprise, but that isn't the same.
Bennie Krueger had a respectable amount of hits through his years, those included: Yes! We Have No Bananas in 1923, Bye Bye Blackbird in 1926, All By Myself in 1921, That Old Gang Of Mine in 1923, Spreadin Yo' Stuff in 1921, Deep In My Heart in 1924, I Cried For You in 1923, I Don't Know Why in 1931, Was That The Human Thing To Do in 1932, and How Many Times in 1926.
