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OKEH RECORD SESSIONS 9.1.1925

100 years ago today, a group of college boys who were spending their summer playing for dances on the rooftop garden ballroom at The George Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville, NC, stepped into the makeshift studio of OKeh Records to record 2 songs.

Ralph Peer and OKeh Records came to Asheville to record fiddlers, banjo pickers, guitarists, and singers who could perform the dance tunes, ballads, love songs, blues, and gospel music of the region.
The majority of that recording session is old time string music.  But two songs by that college dance band, THE CAROLINA CLUB   ORCHESTRA, made it to wax. C’ntd