Sing You Sinners
Performed by Lloyd Keating and His Orchestra (really Jack Albin) (2 trumpets; trombone; 2 clarinet - soprano sax - alto sax; clarinet - soprano sax - tenor sax; 2 violins?; piano; banjo; drums; Paul Small vocal)
Velvet Tone 2118-V
Originally recorded March 4, 1930
Lloyd Keating was a pseudonym for Jack Albin.
I have no biographical information on Jack Albin. He made his first record in August of 1926, and his last in April of 1931. He recorded under many names, including Hotel Pennsylvania Music, The Flamingo Melodians, The Rhythmic Troubadors, Lloyd Keating and His Music, Frank Auburn and His Orchestra, Rudy Marlow and His Orchestra, New York Syncopators, Deauville Syncopators, Merton Dance Orchestra, Roof Garden Orchestra, Edgewater Beach Hotel Orchestra, Webster Moore and His High Hatters, Jerry Mason and His Californians, Ford Britton and His Blue Comets, Rex King and His Sovereigns, Louisiana Collegians, Will Perry's Orchestra, and Ed Loyd's Orchestra.
Albin made his first records for Edison in 1926, but didn't record again until 1929, when he started working for the various Columbia sub-labels. Most of his records were released on the dime-store labels Harmony, Velvet Tone and Diva, but his records were also released on OKeh, Odeon, Parlophone and Clarion. In late 1930 he switched to the Crown label.
I can't find information on the musicians who formed Albin's bands. It seems likely that most of them were studio musicians. He used the singers Jack Lord, Paul Small, Irving Kaufman, Bill Coty, Henry Thomas, and Scrappy Lambert.
W. Franke Harling and Sam Coslow wrote "Sing You Sinners" in 1930 for the movie musical "Honey." They also co-wrote "In My Little Hope Chest." With other songwriters, Harling co-wrote "Beyond the Blue Horizon," while Coslow co-wrote "Cocktails for Two"; "Hello, Swanee, Hello!"; "I'm Just Wild About Animal Crackers"; "Song of the South"; "Sweepin' the Clouds Away" and "True Blue Lou."
"Sing You Sinners" was also recorded by Adrian Schubert, Smith Ballew, The Charleston Chasers, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Matty Malneck, Lee Morse, Willard Robison, Belle Baker, Tom Gerun, George Olsen, The High Hatters, The Revelers and Tony Bennett.
