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Art LANDRY & His Orch. – Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue, Fox Trot (Lewis-Young-Henderson) with vocal refrain, Victor 1925 (USA) NOTE: Art LANDRY (b. 1896 in Montreal, Canada - d. 1990 in Sarasota, Fl) - American saxophonist, clarinetist and violinist. In the 1920s, he led a small dance band that made sensational recordings comparable to the best sides of such renowned bandleaders as Isham Jones, Jean Goldkette or Sam Lanin. Landry was a trained violinist, then served in the US Marines during the First World War. In the army he met the later...

Count Basie & His Orchestra – Blues In the Dark, Fox-Trot (C. Basie) with Vocal chorus by James Rushing, Decca Jan 3,1938 (USA) Performers: Buck Clayton (tp,arr) Ed Lewis, Karl George (tp) Eddie Durham (tb,arr) Bennie Morton, Dan Minor (tb) Earl Warren (as,bassax) Herschel Evans (ts) Lester Young (ts,cl) Jack Washington (alto,bar) Count Basie (p) Freddie Green (g) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d) Jimmy Rushing (vcl) NOTE: Jimmy RUSHING (b. James Andrew Rushing in 1902 in Oklahoma City, died 1972 in New York) one of leading artists among...

Don Clark & His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra – Idolizing! Fox-Trot (Messenheimer, Abrahamson – West) with Vocal chorus by Betty Patrick, Columbia 1926 (USA) This is a corrected version of the clip I uploaded a few hours ago (but it had a glitch with the audio track). Sorry for the mess. NOTE: Don (Donald E.) CLARK - (1896-1963, born and died in Santa Monica, CA) - American saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and conductor, whose fame in the 1920s was abruptly ceased in the 1930s. In the early 1920s he was listed as a clarinetist...

Don Clark & His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orch. – Idolizing! Fox-Trot (Messenheimer, Abrahamson – West) with Vocal chorus by Betty Patrick, Columbia 1926 (USA) NOTE: Don (Donald E.) CLARK - (1896-1963, born and died in Santa Monica, CA) - American saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and conductor, whose fame in the 1920s was abruptly ceased in the 1930s. In the early 1920s he was listed as a clarinetist among Paul Whiteman's musicians. In 1925, he emerged as the leader of his own dance orchestra, which recorded several albums for the Victor...

Mieczysław Fogg & Ork. W. Kabalewskiego [W. Kabalewski’s Band] - I cóż zostało mi [It’s What's Been Left For Me] Tango (Gillowa-Fischatter) Fogg-Record, 1945 (Polish) NOTE: After the Second World War, Poland was hugely devastated, its capital was in ruins, as were many other cities, 12 million of its pre-war citizens disappeared, half of its territory was in the USSR and the rest under the control of the Stalinist regime. However, Poles tried to rebuild their semi-free existence including Mieczysław Fogg, one of the most popular pre-war...

BANJO BUDDY, Singing with Banjo & Orchestra – Let’s Misbehave, Fox-Trot (Porter), Brunswick 1928 (USA) NOTE: Banjo Buddy was a pseudonym used in the 1920s by singer and banjoist Harold Sandelman (b. 1905 in a small town in Michigan - d. 2008). He is an almost completely forgotten artist today, despite a long life and quite successful periods in his life when he sang on stage in New York and toured the USA in the mid-1920s with Libby Holman. This famous Cole Porter song was written in 1927 for Irene Bordoni as the female lead in Porter's...

Bert Lown and His Hotel Biltmore Music – Through, Fox-Trot (Mc Carthy – Monaco) with Vocal refrain, Hit Of The Week, USA 1930 NOTE: Bert LOWN (b. 1903 in White Plains, NY - d. 1962 in Portland, Oregon) - one of the most respected American dance orchestra leaders of the 1930s, a violinist and songwriter. After graduating from school, Lown became a sales manager in 1921 and later organized his own theater booking office in New York. He played the violin occasionally, and in 1928 accepted Fred Hamm's offer to play as a violinist in Hamm's...

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...