INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM, THE

INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM, THE. Jazz orchestra (org. in Piney Woods, Mississippi; fl. c1937-1955). See also THE SWINGING RAYS OF RHYTHM. The orchestra was one of several groups organized at the Piney Woods Country Life School in Mississippi by the school's founder-president Laurence C. Jones . It was during the 1920s that Jones began to send student vocal groups, called The Cotton Blossoms, on concert tours to earn money for the school in emulation of the Fisk Jubilee Singers...