Paul Tremaine's Orch. - Steamboat Bill, 1930 video free download

Paul Tremaine & His Orchestra with Vocal Chorus (uncredited) – Steamboat Bill, One Step, Columbia 1930 (recorded in USA; UK pressing)

Paul TREMAINE (b. 1909 – d. 1997 in Kern County, CA) American bandleader who formed his dance band in late 1920s and was active in the East Coast until the 1940s. His best known sideman was trumpet and trombone player, Sonny Dunham. Many of the musicians in his band would double up on their instruments and also join choruses to produce a uniquely accessible and unconventional musical style. In the 1940s they appeared on the air from the Young’s Chinese Restaurant in Broadway, NY – yet, despite recordings for Victor and Columbia, at no time as it seems had they been contracted for a longer period at any major ballroom or hotel venue.

Here, Paul Tremaine’s band presents the famous old time scouts’ song “Steamboat Bill” - a tragic-comic story about Mississippi river steamboat’s pilot, who tried to beat the speed record of “Robert E. Lee”, yet instead of winning the bet, he crawled straight up to heaven after the ship’s dilapidated boiler exploded. The photoshow accompanying the story has been composed of the clips & stills from Buster Keaton’s silent comedy “Steamboat Bill” from 1928 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOyNCIzASAw