Kapelle Merton - Heebie Jeebies

This appears to be a pseudonym of Dajos Béla, né Leon Golzmann (1897-1978), who was a violinist and bandleader of Russian origin. Golzmann was born in Kiev (Russian Empire, presently part of Ukraine, of a Russian father and Hungarian mother. He served as a soldier during World War I, after which he studied music in Moscow. He then continued his studies in Berlin, where he started playing in local venues. He was contacted by Carl Lindström AG to make recordings and started his own salon orchestra, at which period he changed his name to the more Hungarian-sounding Dajos Béla, Hungarian or Roumanian music then being popular in Germany. Along with those of Paul Godwin and Marek Weber, his orchestra became one of the most popular in Germany and gained a high reputation abroad. He played a range of music, but for jazz music often recorded under different names, such as The Odeon Five, Mac’s Jazz Orchestra and the Clive Williams Jazzband. As soon as the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 Béla, who was Jewish, started touring abroad. In 1935 he traveled to Buenos Aires, where he remained for the rest of his life. He died in La Falda, Argentina, in 1978. This brilliant 1927 record features a famous jazz composition, "Heebie Jeebies", a title certainly requiring some explanation. Heebie-jeebies or heebie jeebies is an American English idiom used to describe depression or anxiety. This can be as an after-effect of excessive alcohol intake or to describe a particular type of anxiety usually related to a certain person or place. It can also refer to a particular form of intense apprehension, verging on horror, that is associated with opiate withdrawal. Jeebie doesn't mean anything as an independent word but heebie is thought by some to be an anti-semitic term. Heebie jeebies was coined at a time and place when there was a spate of new nonsense rhyming pairs, called rhyming reduplications, - the bee's knees, etc., i.e. 1920s USA. The term is widely attributed to Billy DeBeck. The first citation of it in print is certainly in a 1923 cartoon of his, in the 26th October edition of the New York American:
You dumb ox - why don't you get that stupid look offa your pan - you gimme the heeby jeebys! Heebie jeebies caught on quickly and very soon began appearing in many newspapers and works of literature in the USA and, from 1927 onward, the UK. The speed of take-up of heebie jeebies, in a similar way to another coinage that is attributed to DeBeck - horsefeathers-- does suggest an origin in the media rather than street slang, which tends to spread more slowly. The term became part of the language quickly enough for it to begin appearing in advertisements from 1924 onwards.