Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: From the era of just after the First World War, to the Great Depression, the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks were an American sensation, crisscrossing the country on a whirlwind tour that made Jule Stein enough money to found MCA ... and coming into the homes of millions via the newfangled invention, the Radio. They were the first organized band ever to play for radio ... and they got so many telegrams flooding into their radio shows, that Western Union installed their own telegraph ticker next to the drums so they could rip and read their messages on the air ! This was some of the most popular Jazz at the time in America ... the orchestra was huge all across the land, from 1919 - 1932, when Carleton Coon passed away. This record was re-released by RCA on their Vintage series, the year the last remaining member of the combo, Joe Sanders, who was born in 1896, passed away, at the age of 69, in 1965. Classic Jazz - hot, at the same time cool - heady, rowdy, and just all-around great good fun ... this was the Roaring Twenties in America, embodied in song. Format: reissued