The Clambake Seven was a small Dixieland-oriented group taken out of
Tommy Dorsey's big band. Its main period was between 1935 and 1939, although the leader-trombonist occasionally revived the concept in later years. This 16-song LP and has many of the group's finest recordings, all but 1946's "Don't Be a Baby, Baby" dating from 1935-1940. With such hot soloists as trumpeters
Sterling Bose,
Max Kaminsky,
Pee Wee Erwin, and
Yank Lawson, clarinetists
Joe Dixon and
Johnny Mince, tenor saxophonist
Bud Freeman and
Dorsey, plus many vocals by
Edythe Wright, the Clambake Seven can be heard at their best on this program highlighted by "The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round," "At the Codfish Ball," and "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'." Recommended.