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Paddy Harmon’s Dreamland Ballroom was located on the Near West Side of Chicago at the intersection of Paulina and Van Buren streets. Paddy Harmon’s was a large commercial ballroom and roller skating rink which catered to young working-class whites, and had a generally squeaky-clean reputation.

Doc Cook's Dreamland Ballroom Orchestra in 1925
Doc Cook’s Dreamland Ballroom Orchestra in 1925; left to right: Bert Green, Fred Garland, Andrew Hilaire, Freddie Keppard, Elwood Graham, William Newton, Kenneth Anderson, Jerome Don Pasquall, Jimmie Noone, Doc Cook, Joe Poston, Robert Shelley, Johnny St. Cyr, Clifford King.

Doc Cooke was the conductor and musical director of the Orchestra at Paddy Harmon’s from 1922 to 1927. The band also recorded under the names of Cookie’s Gingersnaps and Doc Cook and his 14 Doctors of Syncopation.

discography

TitleRecording DateRecording LocationCompany
Brown Sugar
(Harry Barris)
7-10-1926Chicago, IllinoisColumbia
813-D
Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man!
(Rose / Henderson)
7-10-1926Chicago, IllinoisColumbia
727-D
High Fever
(Joe Sanders)
7-10-1926Chicago, IllinoisColumbia
813-D
Lonely Little Wallflower
(Kahn / Simmons)
1-21-1924Richmond, IndianaGennett
5373-B
Moanful Man
(Gillespie / Baker / Cook)
1-21-1924Richmond, IndianaGennett
5373-A
Scissor Grinder Joe
(Gillespie / Stocco)
1-21-1924Richmond, IndianaGennett
5374-A
Sidewalk Blues
(Walter Melrose / Jelly Roll Morton)
12-2-1926Chicago, IllinoisColumbia
862-D
Spanish Mama
(Billy Meyers / Elmer Schoebel)
7-10-1926Chicago, IllinoisColumbia
727-D
The Memphis Maybe Man
(Gillespie / Cook / Moll)
1-21-1924Richmond, IndianaGennett
5374-B
The One I Love Belongs To Someone Else
(Isham Jones / Gus Kahn)
1-21-1924Richmond, IndianaGennett
5360-B
So This Is Venice
(Clark / Lesile / Warren)
1-21-1924Richmond, IndianaGennett
5360-A

ArtistInstrument
Jimmy BellPiano, Violin
Doc CookeConductor
Fred GarlandTrombone
Elwood GrahamCornet
Tubby HallDrums
Freddie KeppardCornet
Clifford KingClarinet, Alto Saxophone
Jimmie NooneClarinet, Alto Saxophone
Bill NewtonTuba
Jerome Don PasquallTenor Saxophone
Joe PostonAlto Saxophone
Stan WilsonBanjo

 

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