Paul Specht & Orchestra - She Looks Like Helen Brown (1927)
Oh, she looks like Helen Brown
Oh, she looks like Helen Brown
Rosy cheeks and eyes of blue
When she smiles, I'm tellin' you
She looks like Helen Brown
She's the hottest gal in town
When she goes by, the boys all cry
She looks like Helen Brown
Paul Specht and His Orchestra play "She Looks Like Helen Brown"
Columbia 997-D.
March 23, 1927.
Paul Specht lived from March 24, 1895, to April 11,1954.
He was born in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania.
Specht attended Combs Conservatory in Philadelphia, and led his first band in 1916, which toured the Western United States during World War I. He had learned to play violin from his father, Charles G. Specht.
He toured England a few times between 1922 and 1926, even setting up a "School for Jazz Musicians" there in 1924.
He started to make recordings for Columbia in 1922, leading large ensembles for dance numbers arranged in the manner of Paul Whiteman recordings of the early 1920s, but Specht also added his talents to the jazz-oriented Georgians, a small group originally led by Frank Guarente (a trumpet player of French-Italian descent who was born Francesco Saverio Guarente).
Specht, whose dance orchestra incorporated the Georgians, gives an account of the Georgians in February 1952 issue of The Record Changer, writing, "They opened at the Addison Hotel in Detroit, on December 19, 1921, where my ten-piece orchestra featured classical jazz, ragging the standard classical music favorites of the day. I featured Guarente's jazz men in a jam session of one half hour, presented twice nightly. This jazz band session's popularity grew rapidly, and I gave it billing as 'the first band within a band.'"
Specht, a violinist, was responsible for many musical organizations, booking all sizes of ensembles for private and public engagements. In this he was like Paul Whiteman.
Specht nurtured the talents of many young musicians. Around November 1923 a young Ted Weems directed Paul Specht's Trianon Orchestra at the Trianon Ballroom of Newark, which led to a Victor recording contract (Specht's name was dropped).
According to page 50 of the February 1924 issue of Talking Machine World, Specht was "conductor of three Columbia recording orchestras, two Keith headline bands, the Alamac Hotel Orchestra, manager of twenty-five smaller orchestras, two WJZ radio broadcasting bands and three London musical combinations."
The recording debut of the Georgians was on June 29, 1922. "Hot Lips" and "You Can Have Him, I Don't Want Him Blues" were issued under the name of Specht's Society Serenaders on Banner 1090, and variations of this name were used on related labels.
A few months later Specht was under exclusive contract to Columbia, as announced in the September 1922 issue of Talking Machine World, and the smaller jazz group no longer used Specht's name.
Specht credits Columbia's A & R executive Frank Walker for naming the group the Georgians. Walker evidently believed a Southern name was appropriate for a jazz group.
Oh, she looks like Helen Brown
Rosy cheeks and eyes of blue
When she smiles, I'm tellin' you
She looks like Helen Brown
She's the hottest gal in town
When she goes by, the boys all cry
She looks like Helen Brown
Paul Specht and His Orchestra play "She Looks Like Helen Brown"
Columbia 997-D.
March 23, 1927.
Paul Specht lived from March 24, 1895, to April 11,1954.
He was born in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania.
Specht attended Combs Conservatory in Philadelphia, and led his first band in 1916, which toured the Western United States during World War I. He had learned to play violin from his father, Charles G. Specht.
He toured England a few times between 1922 and 1926, even setting up a "School for Jazz Musicians" there in 1924.
He started to make recordings for Columbia in 1922, leading large ensembles for dance numbers arranged in the manner of Paul Whiteman recordings of the early 1920s, but Specht also added his talents to the jazz-oriented Georgians, a small group originally led by Frank Guarente (a trumpet player of French-Italian descent who was born Francesco Saverio Guarente).
Specht, whose dance orchestra incorporated the Georgians, gives an account of the Georgians in February 1952 issue of The Record Changer, writing, "They opened at the Addison Hotel in Detroit, on December 19, 1921, where my ten-piece orchestra featured classical jazz, ragging the standard classical music favorites of the day. I featured Guarente's jazz men in a jam session of one half hour, presented twice nightly. This jazz band session's popularity grew rapidly, and I gave it billing as 'the first band within a band.'"
Specht, a violinist, was responsible for many musical organizations, booking all sizes of ensembles for private and public engagements. In this he was like Paul Whiteman.
Specht nurtured the talents of many young musicians. Around November 1923 a young Ted Weems directed Paul Specht's Trianon Orchestra at the Trianon Ballroom of Newark, which led to a Victor recording contract (Specht's name was dropped).
According to page 50 of the February 1924 issue of Talking Machine World, Specht was "conductor of three Columbia recording orchestras, two Keith headline bands, the Alamac Hotel Orchestra, manager of twenty-five smaller orchestras, two WJZ radio broadcasting bands and three London musical combinations."
The recording debut of the Georgians was on June 29, 1922. "Hot Lips" and "You Can Have Him, I Don't Want Him Blues" were issued under the name of Specht's Society Serenaders on Banner 1090, and variations of this name were used on related labels.
A few months later Specht was under exclusive contract to Columbia, as announced in the September 1922 issue of Talking Machine World, and the smaller jazz group no longer used Specht's name.
Specht credits Columbia's A & R executive Frank Walker for naming the group the Georgians. Walker evidently believed a Southern name was appropriate for a jazz group.