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259: 67: 358: 167:, but changed their name to the New Orleans Rhythm Kings after their lengthy residency ended. All of the members of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings at the time of their recording session of March 1923 โ€“ Mares, Roppolo, Brunies, Stitzel, and drummer Ben Pollack โ€“ are credited as co-writers of one of the band's best-known songs: " 296: 464: 342: 449: 216:, Centennial Edition. Nicolas Slonimsky, Editor Emeritus. Schirmer, 2001. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005. 454: 419: 444: 439: 395: 479: 469: 289: 459: 335: 150: 474: 282: 88: 424: 328: 131: 103: 84: 414: 388: 110: 238: 26: 117: 77: 484: 381: 163:
At first, the band was known as the Friar's Society Orchestra after forming to play a gig in Chicago at
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Stitzel co-wrote "Doodle Doo Doo" with Art Kassel in 1924. He co-wrote "Bittersweet" with
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were school friends from New Orleans who recruited others such as Stitzel and drummer
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band of the early 1920s. The leading members of the group including cornetist
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in one of the first multi-racial recordings in jazz.
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