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McKinney's Cotton Pickers with Vocal Chorus - Never Swat a Fly, Fox Trot from the Fox picture "Just Imagine" (De Sylva -- Brown -- Henderson) Victor 1930 (USA)

NOTE: McKinney's Cotton Pickers were an African American jazz band founded in Detroit in 1926 by William McKinney. Between 1927 and 1933, they were one of the most popular African-American dance orchestra in the world, which rivalled the Fletcher Henderson's and Duke Ellington's bands. Many of their records for Victor were bestsellers. The line-up in 1928 was Cuba Austin (drums and vocals), Prince Robinson (clarinet, tenor saxophone), George Thomas (clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, vocals; Don Redman (arranger, clarinet, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, vocals, and leader), Dave Wilborn (banjo, vocals), Todd Rhodes (piano, celeste), Ralph Escudero (tuba), Nesbitt, Claude Jones (trombone), Milton Senior, Langston Curl (trumpet). Other bandmembers (or non-members) who at one time or another recorded with the band included such notorious musicians, as Benny Carter (clarinet, alto saxophone), James P. Johnson (piano), Sidney de Paris (trumpet), Leonard Davis (trumpet), Coleman Hawkins (clarinet, tenor saxophone) or Fats Waller (piano). The Cotton Pickers disbanded in 1934, unable to make money during the Depression.

The movie "Just Imagine" is a 1930 science fiction musical comedy, best remembered for its special effects in its portrayal of New York City in an imagined 1980.