1927: Roger Wolfe Kahn Orch. - Where The Wild Wild Flowers Grow

Roger Wolfe Kahn & His Orchestra – Where The Wild Wild Flowers Grow, Fox-Trot (Nixon-Woods) Victor 1932 (USA) NOTE: Roger Wolfe KAHN (1908-1962) was a talented and somewhat whimsical and eccentric American dance band leader of the Jazz Age. He was the son of banker Otto Kahn, who emigrated to the United States from Germany in the late 19th century. Roger, however, betrayed his father’s profession and began to learn to play several instruments. He formed his own orchestra at a young age, and thanks to his family’s wealth was able to hire some of the best musicians and vocalists of the time. (Among them were Red Nichols, Gene Krupa, Jack Teagarden, Joe Venuti, Tommy Dorsey or Artie Shaw.) His orchestra performed at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City and made many remarkable dance recordings for Victor, many of which are among the classics of the jazz era discography (including Hot Hot Hottentot, Crazy Rhythm and others). Another great passion of Kahn’s became aviation. In the mid-1930s