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George Olsen's Music
Band,
Pop and Jazz
George Olsen and his Music was a jazz and popular music band formed by George Olsen when he was a drum major at University of Michigan. The band was a prolific Victor recording artist, and their reputation went far beyond Portland, where the band was founded. Olsen's band, though excellent, produced few stars.
Members
 | Jack Fulton voc, tb 1903-1993 US |
 | Jack Hansen tr US |
| Fran Frey voc 1903-1962 US |
| Dick Gardner vn |
| Bob Borger voc |
| Floyd Rice tr |
| Bob Rice voc |
 | Fred MacMurray voc, sax 1908-1991 US |
 | Donald Lindley tr US |
 | Herbert J. Harris perc US |
 | George Olsen voc, dr 1893-1971 US |
| Eddie Kilfeather p |
| Chuck Campbell |
| Billy Priest |
| George Henkel |
| Buck Yoder |
| David Phennig |
| Milton Neul ts, cl |
| Leslie Sheriff |
| Edward Joyce voc |
| Cromwell Owens |
Band Membership
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beyond The Blue Horizon | George Olsen's Music | 2002 | Compil. |
| George Olsen And His Music | George Olsen's Music | 1968 | Compil. |
| The Dickey-Bird Song / Thoughtless | George Olsen's Music | 1948 | Album |
| Bye Bye Blackbird / Hold Me | George Olsen's Music / Little Jack Little | 1948 | Album |
| Somewhere In The Night / Which Way'd They Go? (They Went That-A-Way) | George Olsen's Music | 1946 | Album |
| Cathedral In The Pines / There's A Village In A Valley | George Olsen's Music | 1939 | Album |
| Somewhere With Somebody Else / Why'd Ya Make Me Fall In Love | George Olsen's Music | 1938 | Album |
| This Little Piggie Went To Market / If I Had Somebody To Love | George Olsen's Music | 1934 | Album |
| The Colonel From Kentucky / Another Perfect Day Has Passed Away | George Olsen's Music | 1934 | Album |
| Everything I Have Is Yours / Let's Go Bavarian | George Olsen's Music | 1934 | Album |
| Pink Elephants / We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye | George Olsen's Music / Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra | 1933 | Album |
| The Last Round Up / This Time It's Love | George Olsen's Music | 1933 | Album |
| Mardi Gras / Someone To Care For | George Olsen's Music | 1932 | Album |
| Listen To The German Band / Twentieth Century Blues | George Olsen's Music | 1932 | Album |
| Pink Elephants/Pu-Leeze! Mister Hemingway! | George Olsen's Music | 1932 | Album |
| There I Go Dreaming Again / You Can Make My Life A Bed Of Roses | George Olsen's Music | 1932 | Album |
| Gosh Darn! / I'm So Alone With The Crowd | George Olsen's Music | 1932 | Album |
| It's Gonna Be You / Please | George Olsen's Music | 1932 | Album |
| More Beautiful Than Ever / Ain'tcha Kinda Sorry Now? | Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians, George Olsen's Music | 1932 | Album |
| Romance / After A Million Dreams | George Olsen's Music | 1930 | Album |
| 'Tain't No Sin / Can't You Understand? | George Olsen's Music / The High Hatters | 1930 | Album |
| The Moon Is Low / Montana Call | George Olsen's Music | 1930 | Album |
| I Don't Need Atmosphere (To Fall In Love) / Home Is Heaven - Heaven Is Home | George Olsen's Music | 1930 | Album |
| It's A Great Life / My Ideal | George Olsen's Music | 1930 | Album |
| Sweet Nothings Of Love / Duke Of Ka-Ki-Ak! | George Olsen's Music / The High Hatters | 1930 | Album |
| What Do I Care / South Sea Rose | George Olsen's Music | 1930 | Album |
| I'm In The Market For You / Just Like In A Story Book | George Olsen's Music | 1930 | Album |
| Mona / I'm On A Diet Of Love | George Olsen's Music | 1930 | Album |
| It Happened In Monterey / The Song Of The Dawn | George Olsen's Music | 1930 | Album |
| Walking With Susie / Big City Blues | George Olsen's Music | 1929 | Album |
| If You Believed In Me / Song Of The Moonbeams | George Olsen's Music | 1929 | Album |
| Glad Rag Doll / I'll Never Ask For More | Nat Shilkret And The Victor Orchestra / George Olsen's Music | 1929 | Album |
| Where The Shy Little Violets Grow / A Night Of Memories | George Olsen's Music / Nat Shilkret And The Victor Orchestra | 1929 | Album |
| Out Where The Moonbeams Are Born / The Moonlight March | George Olsen's Music | 1929 | Album |
| Breakaway / Big City Blues | George Olsen's Music | 1929 | Album |
| Just Another Kiss / If We Never Should Meet Again | George Olsen's Music | 1929 | Album |
| Sonny Boy / Forgetting You | George Olsen's Music / Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra | 1929 | Album |
| When The World Is At Rest / She's Funny That Way | George Olsen's Music / Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra | 1929 | Album |
| Pickin' Cotton / I'm On The Crest Of A Wave | George Olsen's Music | 1929 | Album |
| That's You, Baby / Break-Away | George Olsen's Music | 1929 | Album |
| I Faw Down An' Go Boom / A Precious Little Thing Called Love | George Olsen's Music | 1929 | Album |
| Walking With Susie / That's You, Baby | George Olsen's Music | 1929 | Album |
| When The World Is At Rest / In A Little Town Called Home Sweet Home | George Olsen's Music | 1929 | Album |
| Sonny Boy / Beggars Of Life | George Olsen's Music, The Troubadours | 1928 | Album |
| Just Like A Melody Out Of The Sky / Because My Baby Don't Mean "Maybe" Now | George Olsen's Music | 1928 | Album |
| Pickin' Cotton / Blue Grass | George Olsen's Music / Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders | 1928 | Album |
| Old Man Sunshine / King For A Day | George Olsen's Music | 1928 | Album |
| Ten Little Miles From Town / Driftwood | George Olsen's Music | 1928 | Album |
| Mississippi Mud / King For A Day | Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra / George Olsen's Music | 1928 | Album |
| Doin' The Raccoon / It Goes Like This (That Funny Melody) | George Olsen's Music / Johnny Johnson And His Statler Pennsylvanians | 1928 | Album |
| American Tune / I'm On The Crest Of A Wave | George Olsen's Music | 1928 | Album |
| Where Is My Meyer? / Blue Baby | Nat Shilkret And The Victor Orchestra / George Olsen's Music | 1927 | Album |
| Russian Lullaby / For You And Me | Roger Wolfe Kahn And His Orchestra / George Olsen's Music | 1927 | Album |
| At Sundown (When Love Is Calling Me Home) / Here Or There As Long As I'm With You | George Olsen's Music / Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians | 1927 | Album |
| Maybe / Someone To Watch Over Me | Jesse Crawford / George Olsen's Music | 1927 | Album |
| Meadow Lark / Sweet Thing | George Olsen's Music | 1927 | Album |
| Idolizing / I've Got The Girl ! | Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra / George Olsen's Music | 1927 | Album |
| I Never Knew What The Moonlight Could Do / I Don't Mind Being All Alone | George Olsen's Music / Art Landry's Orchestra | 1927 | Album |
| Somebody Else / Look At The World And Smile | George Olsen's Music / Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra | 1927 | Album |
| My Heart Stood Still / I Feel At Home With You | George Olsen's Music | 1927 | Album |
| Do-Do-Do / Clap Yo Hands | George Olsen's Music / Roger Wolfe Kahn And His Orchestra | 1927 | Album |
| I'm Telling The Birds – Telling The Bees / Steppin' Around | George Olsen's Music / Jan Garber And His Orchestra | 1927 | Album |
| There's A Cradle In Carolina / The Song Is Ended | Nat Shilkret And The Victor Orchestra / George Olsen's Music | 1927 | Album |
| Blue Skies / Where's That Rainbow? | George Olsen's Music | 1927 | Album |
| The Varsity Drag / Good News | George Olsen's Music | 1927 | Album |
| Thinking Of You / When I First Met Mary | George Olsen's Music / Ben Pollack And His Californians | 1927 | Album |
| Blue Skies / Looking For A Boy | George Olsen's Music / Roger Wolfe Kahn And His Orchestra | 1927 | Album |
| How Could Red Riding Hood? / I'm Tellin' The Birds, I'm Tellin' The Bees | Jan Garber And His Orchestra / George Olsen's Music | 1927 | Album |
| Sam, The Old Accordion Man / He's The Last Word | George Olsen's Music / Ben Pollack And His Californians | 1927 | Album |
| Lucky In Love / The Best Things In Life | George Olsen's Music | 1927 | Album |
| The Little White House (At The End Of Honeymoon Lane) / Leander | Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians / George Olsen's Music | 1927 | Album |
| Drifting And Dreaming / Dreaming Of A Castle In The Air | George Olsen's Music / Jack Chapman And His Drake Hotel Orchestra | 1926 | Album |
| Lucky Day / Black Bottom | George Olsen's Music / Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders | 1926 | Album |
| Always / Princess Flavia-Medley | George Olsen's Music / The Troubadours | 1926 | Album |
| Dinah / Always | Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra / George Olsen's Music | 1926 | Album |
| Why Do You Want To Know Why? / Ting-A-Ling The Bells 'll Ring | George Olsen's Music / Roger Wolfe Kahn And His Orchestra | 1926 | Album |
| Hi-Diddle-Diddle / Where'd You Get Those Eyes | George Olsen's Music | 1926 | Album |
| Roses Remind Me Of You / Just A Little Dance | Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders / George Olsen's Music | 1926 | Album |
| Horses / Whose Who Are You? | George Olsen's Music / Herbert Berger's Coronado Hotel Orchestra | 1926 | Album |
| Oh, How I've Waited For You / No One's Ever Kissed Me | George Olsen's Music / International Novelty Orchestra | 1926 | Album |
| She's A Corn-Fed Indiana Girl / Too Bad | George Olsen's Music | 1926 | Album |
| You Need Someone To Love / Adorable | George Olsen's Music / Roger Wolfe Kahn And His Orchestra | 1926 | Album |
| On A Night Like This / Horses | Howard Lanin And His Benjamin Hotel Orchestra / George Olsen's Music | 1926 | Album |
| I've Got The Girl! / To-Night You Belong To Me | George Olsen's Music / Roger Wolfe Kahn And His Orchestra | 1926 | Album |
| Who / Sunny | George Olsen's Music | 1926 | Album |
| Hello, Aloha! How Are You? / Let's Make Up | George Olsen's Music | 1926 | Album |
| Drifting And Dreaming / A Night Of Love | George Olsen's Music / B.F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord Orchestra | 1926 | Album |
| She Was Just A Sailor's Sweetheart / The Day That I Met You | George Olsen's Music / Ted Weems And His Orchestra | 1926 | Album |
| Deep Henderson / Hi-Diddle-Diddle | Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra / George Olsen's Music | 1926 | Album |
| Bye Bye Blackbird / What's The Use Of Talking | George Olsen's Music | 1926 | Album |
| Drifting And Dreaming / Dreaming Of A Castle In The Air | George Olsen's Music / Jack Chapman And His Drake Hotel Orchestra | 1926 | Album |
| The Girl Friend / Could I, I Certainly Could | George Olsen's Music | 1926 | Album |
| Katinka / Hard-To-Get Gertie | George Olsen's Music / Irving Aaronson And His Commanders | 1926 | Album |
| Row! Row! Rosie / Say Arabella | George Olsen's Music | 1925 | Album |
| Just a Little Thing Called Rhythm / Paddlin' Madelin' Home | George Olsen's Music / Whitey Kaufman & His Orchestra | 1925 | Album |
| Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me / Wait Till You See Me With My Baby | George Olsen's Music / Ralph Williams And His Rainbo Orchestra | 1925 | Album |
| Those Panama Mamas / Oh That Sweet In Suite 16 | George Olsen's Music / Charles Dornberger & His Orchestra | 1925 | Album |
| Nobody Knows What A Red-Headed Mamma Can Do / I Can't Stop Babying You | George Olsen's Music / Charles Dornberger & His Orchestra | 1925 | Album |
| When My Sugar Walks Down The Street / Everybody Loves My Baby | Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians / George Olsen's Music | 1925 | Album |
| I'm Knee Deep In Daisies / Hot Aire | George Olsen's Music | 1925 | Album |
| Nancy / No One Knows What It's All About | George Olsen's Music / Jack Shilkret's Orchestra | 1925 | Album |
| Sax-o-phun / Hey! Hey! and Hee! Hee! | George Olsen's Music / International Novelty Orchestra | 1924 | Album |
| My Papa Doesn't Two-time No Time / Superstitious Blues | George Olsen's Music / The Virginians | 1924 | Album |
| A New Kind Of Man / He's The Hottest Man In Town | George Olsen's Music | 1924 | Album |
| My Best Girl / Put Away A Little Ray Of Sunshine For A Rainy Day | George Olsen's Music | 1924 | Album |
| Where The Dreamy Wabash Flows / Follow The Swallow | Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra / George Olsen's Music | 1924 | Album |
| Beale Street Blues / Boll Weevil Blues | George Olsen's Music / International Novelty Orchestra | 1924 | Album |
| The Slave Of Love / Because They All Love You | George Olsen's Music / Barney Rapp And His Orchestra | 1924 | Album |
| This Little Piggie Went To Market / In Other Words, We're Through | George Olsen's Music | Album | |
| A New Kind Of Man / Mandalay | George Olsen's Music / Art Hickman's Orchestra | Album | |
| The Best Things In Life Are Free / Honolulu Moon | George Olsen's Music | Album | |
| Out Of The Tempest / The First Kiss | George Olsen's Music | Album | |
| Lucky Day / Black Bottom | George Olsen's Music / Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders | Album | |
| Hallelujah! / Lucky Day | Nat Shilkret And The Victor Orchestra / George Olsen's Music | Album | |
| Bye, Bye, Blackbird / As Long As I Have You | George Olsen's Music / Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders | Album | |
| 18 Original 1924 - '26 Recordings | George Olsen's Music | Compil. |
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