"Collegiate Sam" (1929)

We close out the 1920s with our college-themed songs as we meet "Collegiate Sam from 1929!

A great song for a Harry Reser group, so here's he is under his own name for a change, Harry Reser's Syncopators on Columbia Records:

I always love the vocals of Tom Stacks!

But wait, there's more!

Harry and Tom and company also recorded the song for Brunswick Records as The Six Jumping Jacks:

Totally different interpretation! In this version at least Sam is a football star and not just a sheik!

Here's another version by Teddy Joyce and his Penn Stage Recorders:

Don't know much about Teddy Joyce, but this blurb from another piece of sheet music from 1928 is interesting:

Good fun all around!