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Synco Jazz Band (Joseph Samuels Orchestra) – Chicago, Fox-Trot (Fisher) Pathé Actuelle 1922 (USA) NOTE: Joseph SAMUELS was an American dance band leader and piano and reed player (clarinet, alto- and bass-sax) who was active in the early-mid 1920s in New York area. Little is known abort his life, he was born to an American-Jewish family in Tennessee and attended music college in Cincinnati. During 1919 -22 his dance ensamble Synco Jazz Band was making dozens of jazz-like dance music recordings in the style of the Original Dixieland Jazz...

Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht, Fox-Trot (F.Doelle) - Barnabás von Géczy m.s. Hotel Esplanade Orchestra, Parlophon 1928 (Germany) NOTE: Barnabás von Géczy (1897, Budapest - 1971, Munich, Germany) was a Hungarian violinist and bandleader whose heyday was in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s. Von Géczy studied at the Budapest Academy of Music and left Hungary after World War I to work as a violinist in Trondheim, Norway. In 1925, he received a long-term engagement at the Hotel Esplanade in Berlin, where he founded a dance orchestra that...

Marian Demar & Orkiestra Syrena Rekord dir. by Iwo Wesby – Cicho grajcie mi znów [Play Me Softly Again; Original Italian title: Violino Tzigano] Tango (Bixio-Brojdo) Recorded by Syrena-Electro, Poland in 1937. Repressed by White Eagle Records in USA, c. 1949 NOTE: This is a Polish version of the world-famous Italian tango "Violino Tzigano," composed by Cesare A. Bixio - one of the best Italian pop music composers of the radio days. Marian DEMAR (b. 1897 in Kraków - d. 1979 in Kraków, Poland) was a popular Polish tenor, performing in...

Jack Berger & His Hotel Astor Orch. – The Songs Of The Nile (Artur Freed – Nacio Herb Brown) Fox-Trot from MGM movie „The Barbarian”, with Vocal refrain by Ted Holt, Bluebird 1933 (USA) NOTE: Jack BERGER is a jazz age bandleader & pianist whose name has been largely forgotten today. Born Leonard Berger in 1898 NYC as the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia, he had his debut as dance band leader in 1930 at the Astor Hotel, where he took over the leadership of Joe Moss’ orchestra (Meyer Davis' unit). Ever since, Berger enjoyed a long...

Franziska GAAL mit Odeon Tanz Orchester – Die kleinen Mädchen mit dem trauen Blick [Young Women With The Faithful Eyes], Slowfox (F.Wachsmann-K. Schwabach) a.d. Tonfilm „Gruss und Kuss – Veronika”, Odeon 1932 (Germany) NOTE: Franziska GAAL (born Szidónia Silberspitz 1903 in Budapest, Austro-Hungary - died 1972 in New York, USA) - Hungarian actress, singer and dancer of Jewish origin. In the 1920s, she appeared in Hungarian farces and musicals in Budapest and Vienna, until she was spotted by UFA film producer and future partner Joe...

Ted Weems & His Orchestra – Who Wants a Bad Little Boy? Fox-Trot (Mark Fisher – Joe Burke) with vocal refrain, Victor 1924 (USA) NOTE: Ted WEEMS (born 1901 in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania - died 1963 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) - American leader of one of the best American dance bands of the Jazz Age. He began playing fiddle as a student at Lincoln College in Pittsburgh, then switched to trombone, and eventually organised the school band and became its leader. When his family moved to Philadelphia, Weems led his next orchestra at West Philadelphia High...

Tadeusz Faliszewski z Orkiestrą – Nie żal tych łez [No Regrets For Those Tears] Tango z rewii „Kocha, lubi, szanuje” (from theatre Morskie Oko revue „Is it Love..? Liking..? Esteem..? (J. Arct, A. Lewandowski – Krystjan) Syrena –Electro 1931 (Polish) NOTE:This type of pre-war 'Polish tango' had its own category as a 'dramatic tango', meaning that both its text and its style of melody concealed an entire, usually tragic love story. Faliszewski - who was not a very stage persona (nor was he exceptionally handsome...) was, however, as a...

Jack Jackson & His Orchestra – Two Cigarettes In The Dark, Fox-Trot (Pollack – Webster) At the Dorchester Hotel, with Ocal Refrain by Alberta Hunter, HMV 1934 (UK) NOTE: Jack JACKSON – British trumpeter and bandleader (born 1906 in Belvedere, Kent, UK - died 1978 in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK). He was educated at the Royal Academy of Music. He began his musical career at the age of 19, noticed by Bert Ralston and accepted into his Savoy Havana Band. In later years he played with Bert Ambrose, Ronnie Munro, Jack Hylton and Jack Payne, and...

The Rhythmic Eight (Bert Firman’s Dance Orchestra) - Dusky Stevedore, Fox-Trot (Razaf / J.C.Johnson), Zonophone NOTE: This fox-trot was a great dance & jazz hit written in 1928 by two well-known „black” American authors: the lyricist Andy Razaf and pianist J.C. Johnson: a couple well remembered also by such hits as „Louisiana”, „Black Maria” or „The Joint Is Jumpin’”, the last one made one of ID tunes by the famous jazz pianist Fats Waaller. Here, „Dusky Stevedore” is performed by the renowned Zonophone house band The Rhythmic Eight. It...

Ray Noble & His Orchestra – Let’s Face the Music And Dance (Music & Words I. Berlin) Fox-Trot from „Follow the Fleet”, Vocal refrain by Al Bowlly, Victor 1936 (USA) NOTE: From October 1929 to August 1934 all dance recordings made in London by the HMV band were conducted by the popular English pianist and bandleader Ray Noble, under the name The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, Ray Noble and His New Mayfair Dance Orchestra or (from 1933) Ray Noble and His Orchestra. In late 1930/31 Al Bowlly – a rising star of London crooners - was hired to...

Orkiestra Petersburskiego i Golda – Koralowe Usta [The Coral Lips] Tango z teatru „Morskie Oko” (Jakub Kagan), Syrena-Electro 1930 (Polish) NOTE: In the fall of 1918, with the end of World War 1, Poland regained its state existence after 150 years of occupation by three Empires: Prussian, Tsarist and Austro-Hungarian. However, just a year later and before the young Polish state was well on its feet, it was invaded from the East by the Soviet empire, created in the meantime by the Bolsheviks. In its lonely struggle against Bolshevism,...

Savoy Hotel Orchestra - Who Am I? (Clifford, Milne & Newman) Fox-trot with Vocal Chorus (by Al Bowlly), Columbia 1931 (UK) NOTE: The Savoy Orpheans was one of London's top dance orchestras in the 1920s, performing at the Savoy Hotel. It was founded by Debroy Somers in 1923 and led by violinist Cyril Ramon Newton and, from 1930, by pianist Carroll Gibbons and saxophonist Howard Jacobs (in the spring of 1932 Gibbons took over sole leadership when H. Jacobs left the band). In 1931, Al Bowlly made several records with the Savoy Orpheans when...

Johnny Hamp & His Orchestra – (I’ve Got the Words - I’ve Got the Tune) Hummin’ To Myself, Fox-Trot (Magidson- Siegel- Fain) with Vocal refrain by Carl Graub, Victor 1932 (USA) NOTE:. Johnny HAMP was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He became the leader by chance when the band was performing at the Hershey Ballroom in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The band leader at the time had an argument with the players and walked out. Hamp, with no experience as a conductor, volunteered to lead them for the rest of the evening. After the performance, the band...

Janusz Popławski – Habanera (Original German title: Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt; in English: The Wind Has Told Me A Song] Tango z f-mu „Habanera” (Brühne – Stępień) Orkiestra „Odeon” pod dyr. Jerzego Gerta, Odeon 1938 (Polish) NOTE: This delightful tango-habanera was one of the great hits of the 1930s, made famous in Europe by Swedish actress and singer Zarah Leander. Unfortunately, this outstanding artist spent her best years on the silver screen in the Third Reich's UFA film industry, becoming one of Nazi Germany's highest-paid and...

Aldo Visconti & Orchestra Aromandi – Scrivimi [Write To Me] Tango (Frati-Raimondo) Excelsius 1936 (Italian) NOTE: Little is known about this popular pre-war Italian singer. Judging by the large number of his recordings, he was among the most popular Italian singers of the 1930s, such as Fernando Orlandis, Daniele Serra, Luciano Tajoli and Crivel. Unfortunately, at the same time he belonged to quite a large group of Italian stage artists who became famous for their fascist propaganda music (this is evidenced by the large number of...

Post Lodge Orchestra dir. by Harold Oxley – Sweet Little You, Fox-Trot (Bibo), Pathé Actuelle 1924 (USA) NOTE: Harold Oxley was an American fiddler and bandleader who recorded several albums for Okeh, Parlophone and Pathé Actuelle in June & Aug 1924. Two members of his band are noted in archives as Archie Snead and Charley Storm, without specifying instruments. It's indeed a pity that such hot and musically interesting dance band withdrew from the scene shortly after their debut and the subsequent fate of Oaxley or the names of his...

Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra – When Your Lover Has Gone, Fox-Trot (E.A. Swan) with Vocal refrain (by L. Armstrong), Okeh 1931 (USA) NOTE: A beautiful piece by a wonderful musician, needs no introduction.

Don Azpiazu & His Havana Ciasno Orchestra – Be Careful With Those Eyes, Fox-Trot (H. Woods) with Vocal Refrain by Johnny Marvin, Victor 1930 (USA) NOTE: Don AZPIAZU (b. Justo Ángel Azpiazú in Cienfuegos, Cuba in 1893 – d. in Havana, 1943) - leading Cuban orchestral director in the 1920s and 1930s. His band introduced authentic Cuban dance music and Cuban musical instruments to the USA. In the mid-1920s he performed with his Havana Casino Orchestra at the National Casino in Havana. In 1930 he traveled with his Orchestra to New York to...

Chór Czejanda - Rozszumiały się wierzby płaczące... [Weeping willows hum in the wind] Polish partisan song, Fogg-Records 1946 (Polish) NOTE: 1.The partisan song "Rozszumiały się wierzby płaczące" is now one of the most recognizable Polish patriotic songs, but its melody was written in 1912 by Russian, Vasily Agapkin as the march "Farewell to the Slavic Woman." It gained great popularity in Russia during World War I and became the informal anthem of the Whites fighting the Bolsheviks during the October Revolution. For this reason, it was...

Jack Payne & His B.B.C. Dance Orchestra – Harmonica Harry, One-Step (Baxter) with Vocal Chorus , Columbia 1930 (UK) NOTE: This piece was published in 1929 by the American composer Phil Baxter (who also composed the mega-popular hit "Piccolo Pete" that year). For some reason, Jack Payne released it in the UK as a onestep, though of course it sounds and was published as a foxtrot. Still, it's a lovely interpretation of one of the best British dance bands of the jazz era. The popularity of Jack Payne's orchestra can only be compared with the...