\"IN THE SING SONG SYCAMORE TREE\"
Music by Harry Woods
Words by Mort Dixon
Performed by the Ipana Troubadours, directed by Sam Lanin
Vocal by Harold \"Scrappy\" Lambert
Recorded January 21, 1928, New York
Sam Lanin (September 4, 1891 - May 5, 1977) was a band leader-contractor with a prolific recording career in the 1920s and 1930s. He began shortly before 1920 and by mid 1920s led a band at New York's Roseland Ballroom. Musical director of Ipana Troubadours Band. Recorded under own name or pseudonyms such as Arkansas Travellers, Broadway Bell-Hops, Okeh Melodians, New York Syncopators, The Melody Sheiks, Phil Hughes, Frank Auburn, Lloyd Keating, Jerry Fenwyck, Wally Edwards. Whether Sweet or semi-hot, good musicianship.Top jazzmen included Red Nichols, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Arthur Schutt, Frank Signorelli, Miff Mole, Manny Klein, Jack Teagarden, Benny Goodman, Jimmy McPartland, Joe Venuti. Eddie Lang often featured. Early Bing Crosby vocals on several Lanin records.
