Continental Dance Orchestra was a pseudonym for Willie Creager's band. Willie Creager also was one of the many pseudonyms used by Adrian Schubert, extremely prolific musical director and bandleader. However, if one considers a "bandleader" to be the captain at the helm of a somewhat regular group of individuals working together, Schubert was no bandleader at all. Every record he made came out under another band name; many of the same individual players were hired for some of these sessions as well. Personnel included: Mannie Klein (aka: Mike Mosiello) (t) (sic), Tommy Gott (t), (tb), Bob Effros (t), Tommy Dorsey (tb), Tommy Gott (t), (tb), Charlie Butterfield (tb), Sam Lewis (tb), Jimmy Dorsey (as, ts), Tony Parenti (cl,as); Benny Goodman (cl) , Andy Sannella (as, f); Joe Dubin (ts); Don Murray (cl), (ts,bsx); Larry Abbott (cl,as), Russ Carlson (p); Arthur Schutt (br), not known (bb) (bjo); Joe Green (d), George Hamilton Green (d, marimba). The number of aliases is staggering, so it is almost impossible to know who really was behind the credits. The recording was made in 1929. Lovely vocal by Jerry White. To make confusion complete, finally, it should be noted that several of the pseudonyms were used for different bands - not just Schubert's (in itself not very stable) orchestra. The sheet music shows a photograph of Willie Creager, though. I could fortunately obtain confirmation of this fact, thanks to highly valuable photos courtesy of Mr. Creager's family members, which I could use in another, more recent Creager video.
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