What's that tune?

[Riphly]

That's not a YouTube URL but a Bolt.com one. Check it out! A ragtime dance number that no one seems to know the name of. You can hear Sachimo in the background.

http://www.bolt.com/Riphly/video/WhatsThatTune 4/3430522

What is the name of this tune?!

[saxy_jag]

It's not ragtime, but Dixieland jazz (very subtle difference). I have no idea what it's called though. There are so many obscure numbers along this theme, it would be difficult to know where to start.

Here's 'Days of Dixie', which is very similar:
http://notes.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp_soun dclip.html?item=3522647&f=3522647_16544.mp3&ca rt=342675965510412108

[vehelpfulguy]

Cannot help with the name of the song, but it does sound like Satchmo (not sachimo) - Louis Armstrong, doing some scat singing.

After the initial opening the first "solo" is on the clarinet and it does sound a bit like Benny Goodman.

Benny Goodman did tour with Louis Armstrong in the early 1950s so dont know if it is a recording from that event.

It does sound like it is perhaps a live concert, even though I cannot hear an audience, it just seems to have a feel of a live concert.

There also does seem to be a number of solos one after the other like are featured in a live concert.

I have searched the web for an album by Goodman and Armstrong but cannot find one (does not mean there isn't one, I just cannot find one - Goodman and Armstrong both produced hundreds of tracks in their lifetime).

[Riphly]

Thanks so far! There isn't any audience sound in the recording. What you hear in the vid. clip is from the audience of the musical in which the tune is being used. Thanks for the spelling corrections and genre advice. Yeah, it sounds like Duke Ellington in there, too, with Satchmo. Not even the director of the musical knows the name of the tune. MYSTERY!

[Gromit]

It is an early (1930) Duke Ellington Tune called Ring Dem Bells.

http://www.last.fm/music/Duke+Ellington/_/Ring +dem+Bells

[Gromit]

By a bizarre coincidence I was playing a vinyl version this morning.

[vehelpfulguy]

gromit, well done, it is Ring Dem Bells.

Not the Ellington version as far as I can see (after playing clips of the Ellington version on various sites)

Here is a Lionel Hampton version, but again, not the version the persion is looking for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX04ZAe3UAk

[Gromit]

I'm pretty certain it is an Ellington version, he recorded many different takes. The version on the clip is nearer to the version I have on vinyl, than the link I found.

[Gromit]

If it is any help, the version I have was recorded in New York on 20.08.1930.

It was used in the film 'Double Chech Stomp'.

[Riphly]

THAT'S IT!
Only been searching for three years and all you people find it in under three days.
GREAT MASSIVE THANK YOUS!

[Riphly]

Looking up Double Check Stomp, I found 3 Duke Ellington Versions of Ring Dem Bells and the third one is exactly what we've been using - well at least as far as the sample clip went...

[Riphly]

Now, if I can find a download of that for fair use...