The Chocolate Dandies

The JSP Records release entitled "Hoagy Carmichael -- Volume One" includes no less than four of the earliest recordings of 'Stardust' including one by a group called The Chocolate Dandies. This is the earliest known recording of the song by a group that did not include Hoagy himself. The Chocolate Dandies were a Detroit based group that also was known as McKinney's Cotton Pickers.

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