Paramount Rhythm Boys - Under A Texas Moon

  • 14 years ago
This quite fuzzy pseudonym seems to have been a British denomination for the Clicquot Eskimos, which itself was one of the dozens of Harry Reser aliases. The Clicquot Club Eskimos was a banjo orchestra under the direction of Harry Reser. The band was quite well known because of its nationwide weekly half-hour radio broadcasts sponsored by Clicquot Club, which was a popular brand of ginger ale. Clicquot is pronounced "Klee-Ko" and was the fictional name of the Eskimo Boy that was pictured on the bottle and in the company's advertising. The Clicquot Club radio program was on the air from 1925 to 1935. The Clicquot Club Eskimos wore eskimo suits when playing live and before a studio audience. This outstanding record was made in 1930. Lovely vocal by Harold "Scrappy" Lambert. It should be noted sound is less crisp than usually is the case because of disc's bad shape, which went through a six-step re-recording and restoring process.

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