Roaring Twenties: Slim Lamar and His Hot Boys - That's a Plenty, 1929

That’s a Plenty, Fox-Trot (L. Pollack) – Slim and His Hot Boys (Slim Lamar and His Southerners), Victor 1929 (USA)

NOTE 1: Only hours separate us from the end of this year's sad Carnival, ending with the war in Ukraine. This Wednesday: already Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. In reverie we will be heading towards the great unknown of the future of the coming days and months... For now, however, let's have some fun, just like on the Titanic. This time - with an unusual but completely forgotten orchestra from the American South, from the late 1920s.

NOTE 2: Slim LAMAR (1905-1989) was in fact Henry Elbert Lamar, born in Galveston, Texas. By the 1920s, the Lamars had taken up residence in New Orleans, where Slim played reeds and sold musical instruments. About 1927 Slim appeared in the Southern music scene leading his own band The Southerners, which included the later notorious musicians as Tony Almerico, Sunny Clapp and for some time was associated with Blue Steele, the legendary leader of the Blue Steele Band (the most successful territory band in the southern United States in the 1920s and 1930s). In September of 1927, the Southerners played at the Edgewater Gulf Hotel in Biloxi, Mississippi, and made their first recordings a year later, during a Victor field trip in Memphis, Tennessee. Following those sessions, Lamar’s Southerners ventured to Indianapolis for engagement at the Indiana Roof Ballroom, and after Indianapolis, they played at the Egyptian Room of the Kosair Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Lamar’s band recorded several more sides as Slin & His Hot Boys in Feb 1929 in Camden, New Jersey, after which Slim Lamar is not known to have made any further recordings. In 1938, he relocated to Florence, Alabama, where he got married and started running the Lamar Furniture Company, until his death.

"That's a Plenty" is a 1914 ragtime piano composition considered as jazz standard. Composed by Lew Pollack as instrumental, it has also the ocal version, not so often performed. The first recording was in July 1914 by Prince's Band. Today it’s played as part of the Dixieland jazz repertoire.

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