Spencer and Clarence Williams were not related though they both came from #NewOrleans and wrote many songs together. This one celebrates a Chicago nightclub at 459 East 31st St. called the Royal Gardens, one of the hottest nightclubs in Chicago during the first decades of the 20th century.  It was said that it could accommodate 1000 dancers. Louis Armstrong came to fame here in 1922 when he joined the great King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. #roaring20s
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