Darktown Strutters' Ball

History

Recorded versions

• American Republic Band
• Ray Anthony in Australia on Capitol CP-139, flip side "Deep Night" and in the US as the flip side to the single "Count Every Star".
• Allen Broome & His Dixieland All-Stars released a version on his debut solo album BucketMouth in June, 2013.
• Boswell Sisters recorded a version on May 23, 1934 in New York but was only issued in Australia on Columbia DO-1255.
• Joe Brown on Decca F 11207, 1960, flip side "Swagger"; this was Brown's first single to chart.
• The Brown Dots.
• Phil Brito
• Castle Jazz Band
• Larry Clinton and Orchestra
• Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan
• Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album On the Happy Side.
• Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
• Arthur Fields
• James Gelfand made a version for the Canadian movie Jack Paradise .
• Connie Haines, Alan Dale, the Ray Bloch Seven, and Sy Oliver's Orchestra
• Hoosier Hotshots
• Pee Wee Hunt
• Alberta Hunter recorded the song on her 1978 comeback album Amtrak Blues.
• Brown & Terry Jazzola Boys
• Lou Monte recorded "Darktown Strutter's Ball " in 1954. The RCA release was a major hit, reaching #12 retail. He parodies the lyrics, including "I'll be down to get you in a wheelbarrow honey", and asks "Are you from Lyndhurst?", the city of his birth.
• Russ Morgan and his Orchestra
• Ruby Newman and his Orchestra
• Original Dixieland Jazz Band. The ODJB recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2006.
• Orlando's Orchestra
• Preacher Rollo and the Five Saints
• The Six Brown Brothers, a comedic musical ensemble, recorded the song in 1917.
• Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers
• Toots' Quartet
• Fats Waller
• Chick Webb recorded a version on January 15, 1934 in New York but was only issued in England on Columbia CB-754.
• Ted Mulry Released a Rock n' Roll version of the song catalog number Albert AP11004, produced by Ted Albert in Australia, in February 1976, it reached No 3 on Kent Music Report.