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Alberto Rabagliati & Orch. Barzizza - Ho perduto i tuoi baci (Gone Are Your Kisses) Tango (G.D’anzi – A. Bracchi), Cetra 1940 (Italian) NOTE: This song is an expression of my love for Italy especially now, when Milan is suffering from a record-breaking flash flood in 170 years that has swept away people and vehicles and turned the city's streets into lakes and rivers. May God protect you all! NOTE 2: Alberto RABAGLIATI (b. 1906 in Milan – d. 1974 in Rome) one of the classic names in the history of Canzone Italiana. At the age of 21 he won...
Mieczysław Fogg & Ork. Syrena-Rekord – W domu czeka moja miła [My Honey Waits At Home] Tango (Górzyński-Schlechter), Syrena-Electro 1935 (Polish) NOTE: This Polish tango is quite unusual in concept. While most pre-war tangos had lyrics alluding to passionate love, in which women were tigers, parasites or other more or less demonic creatures, here we have the peaceful love of an office clerk; a shy, modest and even boring kind of "passion." The text (written by the excellent poet Emanuel Schlechter) describes the tedious, uninteresting daily...
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Vocal chorus by Bob Eberly - Live Is Here To Stay (G. & I. Gershwin) from "Goldwyn Follies", Decca 1938 (Rec. in USA, British pressing) NOTE: This awesome American dance & jazz band of the 1930s performing awesome tune by George & Ira Gershwin. And - awesome, ofcourse - vocal refrain by Bob Eberly. What more can one wish for?
Harmony Dance Orchestra - Yes Sir, That’s My Baby, Fox-Trot (Donaldson & Kahn) with Incidental singing by Billy Jones, Harmony 1925 (USA) NOTE: As is often the case with dance recordings from the mid-1920s, there can be a plethora of dance bands hidden under a not-so-specific label name such as "Harmony Dance Orchestra." Quite a few well-known dance orchestras of the 1920s (Ben Selvin, California Ramblers, Fletcher Henderson, Hal Kemp, Joseph Samuels, Nathan Glantz or Lou Gold) made recordings under that pseudonym. Nevertheless, the...
Dajos Béla & His Orchestra - Le Tango du Rêve (Dream Tango) (Malderen) Odeon (Recorded in Berlin; pressed in USA) c. 1924 NOTE: This tango was written in 1919 by Belgian composer Edouard Van Malderen and has since become an international hit, as well as one of the early European tango classics. Its American performance, however, came quite late by the International Dance Orchestra (Nat Shilkret's Victor Band) and released by Victor in 1927. In Poland, it was performed on the stage of one of Warsaw cabarets in 1919, sung by Stanisław...
Tadeusz Faliszewski (aka Jan Pobóg) & Orkiestra – 1,2,3,4 Fokstrot (Tychowski-Krystjan) Melodja-Electro 1934 (Polish) NOTE: It’s one of the more unusual Polish popsongs from the interwar period, for is all devoted to a current political event. The lyrics entirely celebrate the end of Prohibition in USA dating 5th Dec 1933. The recording released in July 1934 is still more less up to date relevant to the case. That unusual interest of the Polish hit market in American domestic affairs can be understood by the fact that the song was...
Barney Trimble And His Oklahomans [Irving Brodsky vel Ben Selvin’s Orchestra] – Huggable Kissable You, Fox-Trot (Bibo) with Vocal chorus by Marvin Young [Irving Kaufman], Velvet Tone 1929 (USA) NOTE: According to the DAHR catalogue, the recording was waxed by Irving Brodsky's dance band on 9 April 1929 for the Columbia Records and repressed by its subsidiary labels such as Diva and Velvet Tone. However, at that time the nickname 'Barney Trimble' also appears as a nick for the Golden Gate and Ben Selvin’s orchestras ('Irving Brodsky' name...
Gene Rodemich’s Orchestra – Everybody Loves My Baby (Williams - Palmer), Brunswick 1925 (USA) NOTE: Eugene ("Gene") Frederick RODEMICH (1890 in St. Louis, Missouri - 1934 in New York) - American pianist and orchestra leader, remembered mainly as the composer of music for numerous cartoons and short action films produced by The Van Beuren Corp. The son of a dentist. Gene Rodemich began his musical career in his hometown as a pianist, and later became the conductor of his own dance band. He founded the Rodemich Orchestra Exchange, through...
Jan Garber & His Orchestra – Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down, Fox-Trot (Lodwig & Quicksell) with Vocal chorus by Goldie (Harry Goldfield), Columbia 1928 (USA) NOTE: This is probably one of Jan Garber's last recordings before his band moved away from those fantastic hot dance arrangements that Garber's orchestra was famous for in the 1920s. As soon as the onset of the Great Depression and the advent of the Swing Era began to wipe out bands from the American music scene that were unable to submit to the new style in pop music, Jan Garber...
Mieczysław Fogg & Ork. dyr. Iwo Wesby - Nie może być inaczej? [It Can’t Be The Other Way/ When My Heart Is Silent And Asleep] Tango (Lidauer-Merlis), Syrena-Electro 1936 (Polish) NOTE: Here is another forgotten Polish pre-war tango. Mieczyslaw Fogg is as delightful as ever and a very good orchestra led by his friend Iwo Wesby - formerly conductor of the orchestra of the Qui Pro Quo theater in Warsaw and musical director of Syrena Records. Soon, the outbreak of World War II in Sept 1939 will put their friendship to a severe test. When Iwo...
Elfrieda Pakul, soprano & piano by A. Bernar – Prekrasnyi Mai (O schöner Mai! op. 375, Joh. Strauss II) Waltz from the Operetta „Prinz Methusalem”, Part 1, 2, Aprelevskij Zavod 1945 (Soviet Russia) NOTE: Elfrieda PAKUL (born Elfrīda Pakule in 1912 in Riga, Latvia - died 1991 in Riga?) - Latvian opera singer. She made her debut at the Latvian Opera and Ballet Theatre in Riga in 1938 and was under contract there until 1941. Due to the annexation of the independent Latvian state to the Stalinist empire during WW2, Pakule worked from 1944...
Anson WEEKS & His Hotel Mark Hopkins Orch. – Tear Drops, Fox-Trot (Davis-Johnson) with Vocal Refrain, Columbia 1929 (USA) NOTE: Anson WEEKS (1896-1969) was a pianist and leader of a popular West Coast dance orchestra from the late 1920s to the 1960s. Born in Oakland, CA, he formed his first dance band in 1924. In the turn of 1920/30 he became popular in San Francisco and LA and attracted many well-known artists, including top singers Art Wilson, Harriet Lee, Donald Novis, Bing Crosby and Tony Martin. His presence guaranteed packed halls at...
Brooke Johns & His Orchestra, dir. by Jack Shilkret – I Want A Pretty Girl, Fox-Trot from the musical comedy „Jack And Jill” (Otto Harbach – William Daley) with Vocal chorus, Victor 1923 (USA) NOTE: Brooke JOHNS (b. 1893 in Washington, DC – d. 1987 in Rockville, MD) Am erican banjo performer and dance band leader of the Jaz Age. His father was a grocerer, and Brooke served in the Navy during World War I. He then enjoyed success in vaudeville as banjo player and made some Victor recordings solo and as bandleader of his own band (sometimes...
Janusz POPŁAWSKI & Orkiestra Columbia pod dyr. Henryka Golda - W maleńkim domku (In A Tiny House) Tango z komedii muz. „Na Fali Eteru” (from the musical comedy On The Airvawes) (Fanny Gordon – Krzewiński, Brodziński), Columbia 1934 (Polish) NOTE: This entirely forgotten Polish tango was written in 1934 by the popular hit and musical comedy composer Fanny Gordon, author of such great Polish hits of the 1930s as the tangos 'Nietoperze' (The Bats), 'Skrwawione serce' (My Bleeding Hart) or the foxtrot 'Pod Samowarem' (U Samovara) which,...
Jack Shilkret’s Orch. - Roll’em Girls, Roll’em, Fox-Trot (Heath-Marr-Fletcher) & Vocals by Billy Murray, HMV 1925 (Recorded in USA, British pressing) NOTE: This is one of those songs from the early 1920s that are a manifesto for a new female style in fashion, mentality, etc. In this song, women's liberation is manifested by rolling down their socks and showing their bare knees on the streets (often the knees were hand-painted). However, the cover photo showing a group of flappers gathered around one rolling tobacco may suggest that...
Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five – I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Fox-Trot from Blackbirds Of 1928 (Fields-McHugh) with vocal refrain (by L.Armstrong), Odeon 1929 (French product). Original recroding: Okeh 8669, May 03 1929, NYC. NOTE: The 1929 version of Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five consisted of: Louis Armstrong (trumpet; vocals), Zutty Singleton (drums), Dave Wilborn (banjo), Fred Robinson (trombone), Don Redman (alto sax), Earl Hines (piano). With the addition of Eddie Condon (banjo) and Lonnie Johnson...
Lenzberg's Riverside Orchestra – Ma! (He’s Making Eyes At Me) Fox-Trot (Clare – Conrad) with Vocal Chorus by Arthur Hall, Puritan 1922 After a break of a few days, I am back on my channel with new uploads! Easter is behind us, but as the octave of Easter is still going on, I'm sending my best Easter wishes to all my channel visitors and long-time friends! NOTE: In the early jazz era in New York, the B. F. Keith Circuit's 'New' Riverside Theatre' located on the corner of Broadway and 96th St. was one of the finest vaudeville...
Ignacy FRIEDMAN, fortepian – Preludjum Des-dur (“Deszczowe”) Fr. Chopin [Prelude Des Flat “Rainy”] Columbia late 1920s. (Polish) NOTE: Ignacy FRIEDMAN (b. in 1882 Kraków, Poland - d. 1948 in Sydney, Australia) - Polish piano virtuoso, a great name in the history of Polish pianism, especially in the interpretation of Chopin. He was born in Podgórze (today the suburb of Kraków) the son of a violinist and a clarinetist of a theatre orchestra, who became his first teacher. He then studied under Professor Flora Grzywińska in Kraków, and...
1928: Ada SARI, Polish Soprano – Variazoni (W. Mozart) & Orchestra cond. by Prof. Carl Alwin, Recorded by HMV in Wien, Austria NOTE: Ada SARI (born Jadwiga Szayer in 1886 in Wadowice near Kraków - died 1968 in Ciechocinek near Bydgoszcz). – Polish coloratura soprano and a great name in the history of European opera singing. When she was three years old, her father, a well-known lawyer, moved with his family to historic Stary Sącz in the Rzeszów region, where he was mayor of the town for 17 years. This enabled his talented daughter to...
Percival MACKEY’s Band & Vocal Chorus - While The Sahara Sleeps, Fox-Trot (Stamper – Nicholls) Columbia 1926 (UK) NOTE: Thomas Percival Montague MACKEY (b. in London 1894 – d. in London 1950) - British pianist, composer and bandleader. He is particularly known for his work as a composer and musical director for films during the 1930s and 1940s. Mackey was born as one of seven children of music publisher Thomas Mackey. He learned to play piano at a young age, and when he was 14 he toured as a pianist with a travelling show of...