Will Osborne & His Orchestra - La Cucaracha (1941)

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Recorded in July of 1941, for The Keystone Broadcasting System transcription services, in Hollywood, CA.

These recordings here were part of some 20 recorded in a large session at an unknown point in July of 1941. Will had just previously experimented with creating a new society band on the west coast, after giving up his East Coast band to Dick Rogers in January that became his orchestra recording for Okeh. So Will's society band was together for only 3 months before folding due to fans being used to Slide Music and not wanting to hear a more refined sound, perhaps exemplified best with the string section. The only recordings of that band was a couple of Soundies made in May. This new band was hastily whipped into shape, made with that old Slide Music sound, but with a necessary modernization to it. The glissando is less present, and more heard as a compliment, rather than a main identity. This band was more successful, but it too would break up before the end of 1941.

These are the only recordings of this band. Karl Leaf, one of the saxophonists, ended up managing the band during it's run, and Marianne Dunne sang nicely with the band too, when Will himself wasn't singing. Some of these recordings, amongst the other 20, would be featured regularly on a radio show called "Meet The Band" up in the mid west by stations like WMIN, WDGY, WBRC, and others, especially around the Twin Cities area.

Newspaper ad for Osborne playing at the Paramount Theatre, comes from The Daily News , Los Angeles, California. July 11th, 1941. Page 31

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