Victor matrix BVE-62909. Won't you be my baby? / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten ; Jimmy Rushing

Additional Information
  • Description: Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  • Instrumentation: 3 saxophones, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, banjo, guitar, 2 pianos, accordion, and traps
  • Category: Vocal
  • Language: English
  • Master Size: 10-in.
Notes
Instrumentation is from Victor ledgers and is not confirmed; collective personnel from notes to a reissue compilation CD. Personnel listings here are not intended to imply that every instrument listed is played on every master recorded at the session.
Victor ledgers: "Mr. Peer, present."
Test pressing in Michael Brooks collection at UCSB.
Source(s): HEP CD (personnel); Victor blue history card; Victor ledgers; disc.
Take Date and PlaceTakeStatusLabel Name/NumberFormatNote
10/27/1930 Kansas City, Missouri. Lincoln Hall 1 Hold Victor [BVE-62909] 10-in. Test pressing.

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Won't you be my baby? / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten ; Jimmy Rushing - Victor [BVE-62909] - Take 1 - 10/27/1930
Audio of this recording from the UCSB Library
℗ © Sony Music Entertainment.
10/27/1930 Kansas City, Missouri. Lincoln Hall 1 Hold Hep (England) 1070 Compact disc
10/27/1930 Kansas City, Missouri. Lincoln Hall 2 Master Victor 23028 10-in.

Won't you be my baby? / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten ; Jimmy Rushing

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Won't you be my baby? / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten ; Jimmy Rushing - Victor 23028 - Take 2 - 10/27/1930
Audio from the Joe Bussard Collection provided by:
10/27/1930 Kansas City, Missouri. Lincoln Hall 2 Master Victor [BVE-62909] 10-in. Test pressing.

Won't you be my baby? / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten ; Jimmy Rushing

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Won't you be my baby? / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten ; Jimmy Rushing - Victor [BVE-62909] - Take 2 - 10/27/1930
Audio of this recording from the UCSB Library
℗ © Sony Music Entertainment.
10/27/1930 Kansas City, Missouri. Lincoln Hall [2]1R Master Bluebird B-6711 10-in. Dub made 1/4/1936.
10/27/1930 Kansas City, Missouri. Lincoln Hall 2 Master RCA Victor LPV-514 LP

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Won't you be my baby? / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten ; Jimmy Rushing - RCA Victor LPV-514 - Take 2 - 10/27/1930
℗ © 1965 Sony Music Entertainment.
10/27/1930 Kansas City, Missouri. Lincoln Hall 2 Master Hep (England) 1070 Compact disc

The take number from which this recording is derived is not known.

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Victor matrix BVE-62909. Won't you be my baby? / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten ; Jimmy Rushing," accessed January 3, 2026, http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800032368/BVE-62909-Wont_you_be_my_baby.

Victor matrix BVE-62909. Won't you be my baby? / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten ; Jimmy Rushing. (2026). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved January 3, 2026, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800032368/BVE-62909-Wont_you_be_my_baby.

"Victor matrix BVE-62909. Won't you be my baby? / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten ; Jimmy Rushing." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2026. Web. 3 January 2026.

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