In the '20s, the Arcadian Ballroom in St. Louis was such a hot spot that any music group that had any kind of a lengthy stint there would eventually become associated with the venue, to misquoth the raven forevermore. What one of these groups would actually sound like depended on many factors, however.
The Arcadian Serenaders can be immediately spotted as one such group whose name was strongly linked to the venue, the facts in the group's history more than bearing out this hunch as the group was known as the Original Crescent City Jazzers up to the point of scoring the gig up...