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Clyde Mc Coy & His Orchestra – It Looks Like Love, Fox Trot (Woods – Freed), Columbia 1931 (USA)

NOTE: Clyde McCoy (b. 1903 in Louisville, Kentucky – d. 1990 in Memphis, Tennessee) – a legendary American trumpet player and bandleader (from 1920), direct descendant of the McCoy family, involved in the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud (1863-1891) on the West Virginia-Kentucky border. In age of 9 he first took up the trumpet, as well as trombone. Before his teens he was playing at school and church events, and at 14 he started playing on the Midwestern riverboats. At age of 16, he assembled his first band for short term contracts in a popular resort of Knoxville. In 1924 he moved with his band to California, where they stayed for several years in area around LA as well as touring nationwide. It was when Clyde started using a mute on his trumpet, creating a ‘wah-wah’ sound which became his trademark. Howeher, his name was still not recognizable among the crowd of excellent orchestras, the American dance band scene in those years was tightly filled with. Until 1930, when one night Clyde Mc Coy appeared with his band at Drake Hotel in Chicago and performed “Sugar Blues”. The audience’s response was enthusiastic and soon the tune – which later became Mc Coy’s signature – was widely distributed on air and waxed on Columbia records, which sold millions of copies of that single – enormous commercial success in the years of Great Depression. The success made McCoy one of the most recognizable Chicago area dance bands, also his next releases such as "In the Cool of the Night," "The Goona Goo," "Wah Wah Blues” and “Smoke Rings” were responded well by the market. Besides his rare commercial success, Mc Coy became a special name among big band swing leaders also for creating his special brand of Dixieland-flavored swing music.

In 1935 Mc Coy’s band switched from Columbia to the Decca label and continued to sell large numbers of records, including a new version of "Sugar Blues" that again went over million copies. Enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942, Mc Coy along with his entire band was entertaining sailors and other troops, as well as patients at naval hospitals, for the duration of the war. He returned to civilian life in 1945 and tried to restart his public career. He put together a big band that did well for a time, and even cut some important records, including a superb rendition of "Basin Street Blues". However in mid-1950s, when rock & roll took over the charts, he disbanded the group and opened with his wife – who was one of the Bennett Sisters – a club in Denver. In 1970s they moved to Memphis, where until his death Clyxde Mc Coy taught music, giving occasional performances with the Dixieland groups around Memphis.