Golden Gate Orchestra - Keep Smiling At Trouble

The California Ramblers - but on Edison issues usually credited Golden Gate Orchestra - were a popular and prolific jazz group from the 1920s, that recorded hundreds of songs under many different record labels throughout the 1920s. Three of the members of the band, Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey, and Tommy Dorsey, would go on to front big bands in later decades. The original bandmembers were from Ohio, but chose the name California Ramblers because they thought people would be less inclined to listen to a jazz band from the Midwest. The "Ramblers" came from the name of one of the venues where they had played, the "Ramblers Inn" in Pelham, New York. They recorded for nearly every independent label in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., using over 100 unique aliases. This outstanding record was made in 1925.