1938 Ray Noble Cherokee

From the Rick Colom Collection: A year before Billy Mays famous arrangement for the Charlie Barnet band turned this tune into a favorite vehicle for jazz improvisation, Cherokee was recorded by its composer Noble as the first of fivemovements in his Indian Suite, which later included Comanche War Dance Iroquois Seminole and Sioux Sue. See also the flipside By The Waters Of Minnetonka. CD audio, originally issued on 78rpm: Brunswick 8247 Cherokee (Noble) by Ray Noble his Orchestra, recorded October 11, 1938