Hal Kemp & His Orchestra, voc. Skinnay Ennis - When My Dreams Come True (I.Berlin) (from "The Cocoanuts"), Brunswick 1929
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Hal KEMP (1904 1940) was a jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, composer, and arranger. He was born in Marion, Alabama and died in Madera, California following an auto accident. Art Jarrett took on leadership of Kemp's orchestra in 1941. His major recordings were "There's a Small Hotel", "This Year's Kisses", "Where or When", "When I'm With You", "Got a Date With an Angel", and "Three Little Fishes".
Skinnay ENNIS was American singer and bandleader who met Hal Kemp in 1927 while both were attending college at the University of North Carolina. Kemp picked Ennis to play drums in his campus band, the Carolina Club Orchestra, and when Kemp left UNC to form a professional jazz band later that year Ennis went with him. Kemp also encouraged him to sing. His singing style was shy and breathless and proved a perfect match for the unique style of sweet dance music that Kemp's orchestra came to play by the mid-1930s. He quickly became popular with female audiences and was soon the band's biggest star.
„The Cocoanuts, a 1929 movie based on The Marx Brothers' Bradway show of the same name, took place at the height of the Florida land boom, in a mythical Florida land development, Coconut Beach.
