The Syncopatin’ Seven was a later version of The Syncopatin’ Five. They got their start playing dance music in hotels in Florida. Most of the band members were from Ohio and Indiana and they returned North and played gigs there until the winter when they returned to Florida and played in Georgia. In 1922 saxophonist Ray Stillson and the then unknown cornet player Red Nichols joined the band bringing the number of Syncopating Five to seven.

They jokingly billed themselves as the The Syncopating Five and their Orchestra, and recorded under the more logical name of The Syncopating Seven. The band went north to Chicago where Red Nichols first encountered Bix Beiderbecke’s cornet playing while Bix sat in with the Friars Society Orchestra. After this Nichols started to model his playing after Bix’s style. The Syncopating Seven played Florida again in the winter and then landed a prestigious gig at the Ambassador Hotel in Atlantic City, where Paul Whiteman rose to fame. They felt they needed a classier image and changed the band’s name to the Royal Palm Orchestra. The band was a flop and they hightailed it back to Indiana where the group broke up soon afterwards.

Title	Recording Date	Recording Location	Company
Chicago (Fred Fisher)	11-22-1922	Richmond, Indiana	Gennett un-numbered 11235-C
Strutting At The Strutter’s Ball	11-22-1922	Richmond, Indiana	Gennett un-numbered 11236-C
Toot-Toot-Tootsie (Goo’ Bye) (Gus Kahn / Ernie Erdman / Dan Russo )	11-22-1922	Richmond, Indiana	Gennett un-numbered 11237

Artist	Instrument
Chuck Campbell	Trombone
Gilbert Dutton	Clarinet
Herb Hayworth	Banjo
Red Nichols	Cornet
Dusty Rhoades	Drums
Ray Stillson	C-Melody Saxophone
Russell Stubbs	Piano