Volume 234: Sugar Blues

What? Yet another trumpet player in my dad’s collection I haven’t introduced you to yet? But of course.

Clyde McCoy is not nearly as well known as the myriad of other horn players I’ve shown off, but he recorded a lot of music from 1917 through 1985.

His 1931 version of a song written nine years earlier set off a mini craze within jazz and set his career on fire.

So get ready to hear a trumpet played in such a style that it inspired a popular electronic tool for guitar players used still to this day in Volume 234: Sugar Blues.

For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Clyde McCoy – The Golden Era Of The Sugar Blues
Label: Design Records – DLP 28
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1957
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band

We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this album.

Sugar Blues
written by Clarence Williams and Lucy Fletcher
Recorded in 1931

Honeysuckle Rose
written by Andy Razaf and Fats Waller
Recorded January 22, 1931

Beale Street Blues
written by W.C. Handy
Recorded 10/14/1935

Swamp Fire
written by Hal Mooney
Recorded sometime in 1936

Farewell Blues
written by Elmer Schoebel, Paul Mares, and Leon Roppolo
Recorded 7/5/1935

Deep In A Dream
written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Eddie DeLange
It was recorded maybe in 1938 or 1939.

Ridin' To Glory On A Trumpet
written by Clyde McCoy
Recorded 3/24/1936

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

#clydemccoy #sugarblues #dixielandmusic #trumpetsrule #musichistory #musicalmemories #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords