Posted on 11/16/2015 7:30:42 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
Jack Hylton and His Orchestra plays "The Pick Up" on HMV B5882. The vocal is by Pat O'Malley. The song is featured in the film titled "Safety in Numbers."
The more commonly encountered tune from that film SAFETY IN NUMBERS is “My Future Just Passed.” Never seen the film, though. It’s pretty rare. Starred Buddy Rogers.
I met Buddy Rogers on a couple of occasions back in the late 1970’s.
Neat! He went to a Cinecon convention not too long before he died, but it was one I missed. It seems when his film career started going downhill, he concentrated on that band of his. I guess it was his, or maybe he was just a figurehead leader...? Never really knew much about it.
I’d recalled a couple of mid-1930s shorts or film appearances in which Rogers seemed to have some schtick in which he’d run around the bandstand and play a short piece on just about each one of the band’s various instruments. Which is why I sometimes wondered if he was more of a commercial figurehead (utilizing his fame) of the band, or really a full-fledged bandleader.
Nice to see that a good print of “Safety in Numbers” exists. The vast majority of Paramount features from 1930 seem luckily extant. Although often hard to come by. Not the case with the preceding year, 1929, in which a hefty number of Paramounts are considered ‘lost.’
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