Will Osborne & His Orchestra - Its De-Lovely (1936) [Hindsight version]
Channel: C Porter
Date: 2020-05-17

Will Osborne Audible Discography Project:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5I_eUpXmCpUb1uzHIseeuLnUGbq4Amut   It might start you off at two videos ahead from where it should. So Scroll up in the playlist. (youtube glitch) 

NOTICE: After careful examination of Plotkin transfers and this Hindsight Records album release from 1983, it has been determined that these dozen tracks have been tampered with in some ways, shortening song length on a few of them. The most likely reasoning for this also being the most obvious; which was to fit as many songs onto this album as they could. Only those with the most trained ears would be able to pick this up at the time, and since Hindsight's main demographic was in their 50s - 70s at the time, it's doubtful anyone would catch this. Nevertheless, this is not how one would've heard these songs played/performed over radio or from the actual transcription discs.

----Audio ripped from a Topic Channel. Topic Channel videos often are taken down automatically within months, but My video will not be. Unless suddenly Will Osborne songs never commercially released suddenly become Top Tier non-Fair use.------

Will Osborne was one of about 10-12 bandleaders of the 1920s and 1930s who sang while directing the band. Sure it wasn't necessary, not too many people were doing it, and sometimes hard to do, but Osborne pulled it off sometimes better than Rudy Vallee did. He was always pushing to improve his style, unlike most artists would take a break for adjusting other aspects, but no it was always quality he was trying to improve. Improving from the very beginning with his 1st band to his last. He had between three and four Orchestras, Most of which always went under the name of "Will Osborne & His Orchestra" but one would sometimes be referred to as "Will Osborne & His Slide Music." 

This Orchestra is the same one to be referred to as His Slide Music. The reason behind this was because in early 1935, he disbanded his original orchestra and "Ballroom" and sweet swing style jazz that he would record the majority of the time when he was with the ARC. Moving ahead to a new sound partially inspired from when he was in college back when he was still thinking of being a drummer. This new sound is best described as 'Glissando' based Swing" which he is the creator of. Taking a his trombonists and making them focus mainly on sliding between note and note. Mix that in with custom made Slide Cornets and Slide Trumpets, while stuffing megaphones down the bells of the horns to make a more distinct sound, and that's what this new sound was. To help people understand their style, they would perform a song on the radio "Listen To The Glissen" in 1936, which I highly recommend you listen to. 

This new orchestra's new sound would not only give them better success, but would encourage him to leave the ARC in the middle of the year. Leaving for Decca. They would record there mainly while also recording for various radio transcription discs thorough the rest of the 30s. With this band he also let others record apart from just himself, including a brother and sister signing duo Dick & Dorothy Rogers. Along with the bassist Dale Jones for novelty purposes along with many other male and female singers. In 1939 they would also be signed onto Varsity records which would last until 1940. The band would stop recording by 1940, and break up by 1941. 

This band of Osborne's had only a few hits. That's What You Think in 1935, Silver On The Sage in 1938, It's De-Lovely in 1937, and So Lovely in 1938.

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