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Joe Daniels was born in Zeerust, South Africa on March 9, 1909 and left his native South Africa for England as a young boy. In 1922 at 14 years of age he was already part of the 1920s London club scene, playing in bands led by Harry and Burton Lester, Billy Mason and Fred Elizade.

Daniels went on to play with Sid Roy before forming his own band with trumpeter Max Goldberg in 1926. Around 1930, he started recording as Joe Daniel’s Hot Shots, and they became a popular recording band. The band, with Bobby King as the vocalist, performed on early BBC radio shows many times, and recorded on Parlophone.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Joe joined the Royal Air Force, where he organized an air force band, and produced shows for the troops. After the war and throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, he played in both small and in big bands, including recording under the name Washboard Joe and His Scrubbers. Their recording of I Love Onions / Paper Kisses was released on Parlophone in 1955.

In 1957, he toured as the Big DixieLand Group, while Joe Daniels and the Hot Shots were his ballroom band for Butlin’s Holiday Camp during the mid 1960s. He often played to a full house and was in tune with the campers’ frivolity: one of the most popular dances that got everyone on the floor was the March of the Mods.

Among his more popular numbers was Experiments with Mice. Drummer Joe Daniels, who continued to play Dixieland until 1990, transitioned on July 2, 1993, in Northwood, Middlesex, England, at the age of 84.

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