The Chocolate Dandies was the name of several American jazz combos from 1928 through the 1940s.
The name was an outgrowth of the Broadway production, The Chocolate Dandies, that debuted in 1924.
A band led by Don Redman was the first to record with the name "Chocolate Dandies" on the Okeh label in 1928–1929.
He also recorded with McKinney's Cotton Pickers and released material with that ensemble under this name.
Versions of groups' names "Chocolate Dandies" continued to play into the 1940s and counted among their members Buck Clayton, Floyd O'Brien, and other members of Carter's and Fletcher Henderson's bands.