The Savoy Havana Band at the Savoy Hotel, London -- Sahara, Fox Trot (H.Nicholls), Columbia 1924 (UK)
NOTE: For most of European elites of the early 1920s nothing was so urgent to fulfill as the social ritual as an \"Oriental journey\" preferably to Far East or to Egypt -- according to the worldwide explosion of interest in the Egyptian culture, due to the revealing of Tutankhamen's grave by the British Egyptologist Howard Carter, in Autumn 1922. Therefore, alongside with the Ritz of Paris or Savoy in London, the most expensive Cairo hotels: the Shepherds', Grand Continental, Sheherezade or Mena House became in autumnal/wint'ry season the meeting points of the best international society. Also in the world of fashions - where appeared the ancient Egyptian motifs, or in the popular music, where the words \"Tutankhamen\", \"Cairo\", \"Suez\" or the Nile appeared in titles of many shimmies, foxtrotts or even tangoes, \"Egyptian madness\" of those days was reflected. \"Sahara\" -- played by The Savoy Havana Band which was perhaps the best dance orchestra of the early 1920s in Britain -- belongs to the whole array of such dance-floor hits for one season.
