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Edward Jasiński & Ork. Henryka Warsa – Florek, gdzie twój humorek? (Florek, Where’s Your Cheer Gone?) Fokstrot z filmu „Niedorajda” (from the musical comedy „Loser”) (H.Wars – J.Jurandot), Syrena-Electro 1937 (Polish) NOTE: Edward JASIŃSKI (b. 1912 in Warsaw, Poland – d. 1990 in Port Charlotte, USA) - Polish pop singer who, in his youth, sung in a church choir and then attended the well-known Opera Studio in interwar Warsaw run by Polish opera diva Janina Korolewicz-Waydowa. In 1933, Jasiński started his solo career as a performer of...

Jacek Berger & His Astor Hotel Orchestra – There’s Nothing Too Good For My Baby, Fox-Trot from Film „Palmy Days” (Cantor-Davis-Akst) with Vocal Chorus, Melotone 1929 (USA) NOTE: Jack BERGER (born Leonard Berger 1898 in NYC – d. 1940 in NYC) – American pianist & dance bandleader who is largely fogotten now. His first noted is Astor Hotel NY just before 1930, where he replaced the orchestra of Joe Moss (Meyer Davis' unit). Berger's band enjoyed a residency at the Astor until 1936. During this time, he also performed at the Savoy Hotel and...

Orchestre NIMBS (dir. by Jens Warny) - Oh Bayadere! Fox-Trot from Operette La Bayadere (E. Kalman), HMV 1922 (pressed in London) NOTE: Nimbs Orchestre was a danceband led by Danish conductor Jens Warny, performing in the 1920s at the much-visited Nimbs Restaurant in the Tivoli amusement park in Copenhagen. Jens WARNY (1893 - 1979) had a long career as a bandleader from the early 1920s to the 1930s and 1940s. In the 1920s his dance orchestra recorded mainly for HMV under the name Orchestre Nimbs or Warny's Orkester or Jens Warny Jazz...

Ted Weems and His Orchestra - Good Morning, Good Evening, Good Night, Fox-Trot (Silver, Sherman & Lewis) with Vocal Refrain (by Joe „Country" Washburn), HMV 1929 (Rec. in USA, British pressing) NOTE: Ted WEEMS’ band was one of the hottest dance bands of the 1920s in the USA. Wilfred Theodore (Ted) WEEMS (originally Wemyes) b. 1901, Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, d. 1963, Tulsa, Oklahoma was an American bandleader and trombonist. After learning to play the violin in high school, Weems switched to the trombone while studying at the University of...

Tadeusz Faliszewski - Twój uśmiech (Your Smile) Boston (English Waltz from theatre Morskie Oko show „Milion złotych” [A Milion Zlotys Revue] ) A. Gold – A. Włast, Syrena-Electro 1931 (Polish) NOTE: This charming English waltz was composed in 1931 for the revue theatre Morskie Oko in Warsaw, by one of Poland's best pre-war hit composers, Artur Gold. He was the brother of Henryk Gold - also a hit composer and the popular Polish pre-war dance bandleader (His orchestra constantly performed in the most fashionable nightclub Adria in Warsaw)....

Tango Jalousie (Jacob Gade) - Jens Warny med sitt Orkester (& His Orchestra), c. 1939 (Denmark) NOTE: Jens WARNY (1893-1979) Danish dance band leader and composer, active from the early 1920s until the 1930s and 1940s. He began his career in Denmark in 1911, when he was hired by the owners to lead a band at the fashionable Nimbs restaurant in Copenhagen's Tivoli. After a year he went to England and later to the USA, where he played in various dance orchestras until the end of the First World War. After returning to Denmark, Jens Warny...

Kleines Tanzorchester mit Gesang (Karl Golgowsky) - Dich hat der liebe Gott für mich so schön gemacht [The Good Lord Made You So Beautiful For Me], Foxtrot (Schröder – Beckmann) aus dem Film „Oh, diese Männer”, Tempo (Germany 1941) NOTE: I absolutely love this record, which I remember being played by my aunts when I was a young boy. Despite the special date of its creation (the early part of World War II, that is the black night in occupied Poland), many such records were played in Polish homes, because of the German ban on the use of...

Bernie Cummins & His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra - Ev'ry Day Away From You, Fox-Trot (Jay Mills - Charles Tobias), vocal refrain by Bernie Cummins, Victor 1929 (USA). NOTE: Bernie CUMMINS (b. 1900 in Acron, Ohio - d. 1986) was an American jazz drummer, singer and dance orchestra leader in the 1920s and 1930s. In his youth, he was a boxer before he began playing drums in local bands in Ohio. In 1919, he debuted with his own small band in Indiana. In 1924, his larger orchestra began recording for Gennett, but its breakthrough came when it moved...

Janusz Popławski & Ork. Columbia dyr. Henryk Gold - Zamieńmy się ustami [Let’s Swap Mouths] Tango (W.Dan – Oldlen), Columbia 1933 (Polish) NOTE: A few days ago I uploaded here a video of this tango performed in a rather lyrical style by Mieczyslaw Fogg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIDI199kKuk&t=8s Now, the same tango in a dramatic and, in my opinion, much better performance by the Polish popular tenor Janusz Popławski. He is accompanied by his favourite orchestra, Henryk Gold, with all its verve and fierceness for Argentine-like tango....

Brooke Johns Orchestra (Under direction by Jack Shilkret) – Take, Oh, Take Those Lips, Fox-Trot from „Ziegfeld Follies” (Joseph McCarthy – Henry Tierney) with Vocal chorus, Victor 1923 (USA) NOTE: Brooke JOHNS (William Brooke Johns b. 1893 in Washington DC - d. 1978 in Rockville, MD) was a singer, banjo player and bandleader. He performed in vaudeville and Broadway musicals and was also an actor, known for "That Old Gang of Mine" (1925) starring "Fatty" Arbuckle and "Manhandled" (1924) with Gloria Swanson. He retired in 1934. It is unclear...

Arthur ROSEBERY & His Kit-Cat Dance Band – Big City Blues, Fox-Trot from „Fox Movietone Follies” (Conrad-Mitchell-Gottler), Parlophone 1029 (UK) NOTE: Arthur ROSEBERY (1904-1986) was an English dance band leader, pianist and singer. He began working as a pianist in 1921, and a few years later he formed a small ensemble which included Billy Cotton. During the Jazz Age, Rosebery worked as a dance orchestra leader in various London clubs including the Kit-Cat Club, and also made a number of recordings of contemporary dance music, which became...

Chick Webb and His Orchestra – True, Fox-Trot (Samuels-Whitcup) with Vocal Refrain by Taft Jordan, Okeh 1934 (USA) NOTE: The band members in this recording session by the famous Chick Webb’s orchestra were: Mario Bauza, Bobby Stark (tp) Taft Jordan (tp,vcl) Sandy Williams, Fernando Arbello (tb) Pete Clark (cl,as) Edgar Sampson (as,arr) Elmer "Skippy" Williams (cl,ts) Wayman Carver (ts,fl) Joe Steele (p) John Trueheart (bj,g) John Kirby (b) Chick Webb (d) Charles Linton (vcl) (according to the list by A Jazz Anthology: Classic Jazz On Line).

Cass Hagan & His Hotel Manger Orchestra - Sometimes I’m Nappy, Fox-Trot from „Hit the Deck” (I. Caesar- V. Youmans) with Vocal Chorus, Columbia 1927 (Org. rec. in USA; UK pressing) NOTE: "Sometimes I'm Happy" is a popular song composed by Vincent Youmans to lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and William Cary Duncan. Published in 1923 under the title 'Come On And Pet Me', it was intended for the Broadway musical „Mary Jane McKane”, but was cut before its premiere. The musical was then used, with new lyrics and title, in the short-lived 1925...

Mieczysław Fogg & Ork. Krasińskiego i Zuck’a - Szkarłatna wiosna [The Scarlet Spring] Tango z teatru „Ananas” (Białostocki-Jastrzębiec), Odeon 1930 (Polish) NOTE: In 1930, Mieczysław Fogg was still a member of the much-loved Polish reveller choir known as The Dan's Ensamble (Dan's Choir - after its founder and composer, Władysław Dan). Fogg was a valued leading baritone in it and it was a great regret when, after a few years, he announced that he preferred to pursue a solo career and left the group, soon to become one of the most popular...

Stuart Ross & Joe Sargent with Piano – Little White Lies (Walter Donaldson) Parlophone 1930 (UK) NOTE: This absolutely lovely song by Walter Donaldson is still performed today and, in my opinion, is one of the most beautiful American hits of the early 1930s. Sadly, our knowledge of these American duettists is as little today as the white lies they sing about. They must have been quite popular in their day, hence their Parlophone recordings and photos of them performing at London's fashionable Cafe de Paris in the late 1920s. I suppose the...

Ted Wallace (Ed Kirkeby) and His Campus Boys – Mean To Me, Fox-Trot (Turk - Ahlert) with Vocal Refrain, 1929 USA NOTE: Ed KIRKEBY (aka Ted Wallace) b.1891 -- d.1978, American bandleader, vocalist, music manager, is best remembered as the manager of Fats Waller, he also managed the Pickens Sisters and worked in the band booking department at NBC. He was one of the first recording managers at Columbia to record jazz and organized the California Ramblers to perform it. He used several pseudonyms for recording including Ted Wallace, Eddie...

Efim Schachmeister Jazz-Symphonians – Pharaon, Foxtrot (Alchansky), Polydor 1927 (Austria) NOTE: Here’s one more “Egyptian” foxtrot – one of dozens of such ephemeral dance hits which flooded over European and American dance halls and music theatres in the early-mid 1920s. The popularity of such oriental dance hits was part of the so-called Tutenkh-mania: the oriental fashions craze which followed the Egyptian excavations led by lord Carnarvon and his discovery of the pharaoh Tut-enkh-amun’s intact tomb in 1922. The slideshow therefore...

Chałupeczka niska [Our Little Hut] Oberek [Polish folk dance] – Tadeusz Faliszewski & Halina Faliszewska z Orkiestrą Syrena-Rekord 1935 (Polish) NOTE: : As well as being one of the best and most prolific Polish pop singers of the 1930s, Tadeusz Faliszewski was also a talented performer of a variety of stage characters, including Warsaw apaches, Lvov street hoodlums, big-city grandees, fat Moscow merchants from the tsarist era or Yiddish 'shmonces' couplets. Here he and his equally talented wife Halina Faliszewska (born Kidawska) sing a...

Lanin’s Arcadians (Sam Lanin & His Band) – Dreary Westher, Fox-Trot (Winegar) Pathé Actuelle (USA) 1925 NOTE: Sam LANIN's dance band was one of the most prolific orchestras on the US East Coast in the 1920s. Born in Philadelphia to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants as one of three musically gifted brothers (the other two, Howard and Lester, also ran dance orchestras) Sam founded the Roseland Dance Orchestra in early 1920s, which signed a contract with Columbia and began releasing dozens of popular dance recordings in smooth & catchy...

Henry Lange's Parisian Dance Orch. – Regret, Fox-Trot (Cliff Friend - Henry Lange), Edison 1923 (USA) NOTE: Henry LANGE (b. 1895 in Toledo, Ohio) American composer, songwriter ("Hot Lips"), conductor and pianist, educated in public schools and a private music student. He was a valued novelty pianist in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and made a European tour between 1920 and 1924. In the early 1920s he formed his own orchestra and was appointed the music director for Baker Hotels in Texas, and toured in vaudeville. In 1936, he was the...