sentences:  Pianist/singer/songwriter Barris joined the team in 1927.They made a number of recordings with the Whiteman Orchestra and released singles in their own right with Barris on piano.They appeared with the Whiteman orchestra in the film "King of Jazz" (Universal Pictures, 1930), in which they sang "Mississippi Mud", "So the Bluebirds and the Blackbirds Got Together", "A Bench in the Park", and "Happy Feet".