Isham Jones Orchestra

founded his orchestra at the end of the 1920s and recorded numerous records in the 1920's and 1930's, of which [r=5841456] was one of the most successful, selling almost 2,000,000 copies. One of the most talented musicians, , had his early period as musician in this orchestra. The band was dissolved in mid 1936 and a 'soft' and a 'hot' fraction of the groups survived and continued the tradition of the orchestra. The hot fraction was later known as and stayed active until the 1980's.