1928: Sally Of My Dreams - The Benson All Star Orchestra

The Benson All-Star Orchestra, Direction: Edgar A. Benson - Sally Of My Dreams, Fox-Trot from Motion Picture “Mother Knows Best” (Kernell) with Vocal refrain by Stanley Jacobsen, Columbia 1928 (USA)

NOTE: Edgar Archibald BENSON (1878–1946) – a St. Louis born cellist was actually a musical agent out of Chicago. He put orchestras together depending on the venue. His first dance band was The Benson Orchestra of Chicago which he founded in c.1920. Its members at different times included saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer, drummer Gene Krupa, and pianists Roy Bargy and, later, Don Bestor, who served as its musical directors. The arranger was usually Roy Bargy. The band soon became one of the most popular Chicagoan dance bands of the early 1920s, and had its base at the Marigold Gardens, which had some notoriety as a gangster hang-out. Roy Bargy left the band in 1922 and was replaced as bandleader and pianist by Don Bestor. The band continued to record successfully, with hits including one of the first recordings of "Tea for Two" in 1925. That year, Bestor left, and trumpeter Fred Hamm took over as leader. Thereafter the band continued to disintegrate, although its name continued to be used on records with the "Edgar. A. Benson" in it, until the end of the 1920s. when Benson lost effective control of the Chicago dance band business.