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Chór Dana (The Dan's Choir or the Dana Choir) - Wróć do mnie, wróć! (Come back, come back to me!) Tango (Krupiński-Kończyc) z rewii "Złote szaleństwo" teatru Morskie Oko (from theatre Morskie Oko revue "The Golden Madness") Odeon 1930 (Polish) NOTE: It is one more entirely forgotten old Polish tango, so beautifully sung by the Dan’s Choir. Today no one remembers this song anymore. Such is the fate of many a song: many of themsuch a short, though colorful for a second, and shining life. Like a butterfly.
Harry A. Yerkes’ Dance Orchestra – Whispering (Malvin & John Schonberger) Fox-Trot, Vocalion 1920 (USA) NOTE: Harry A. Yerkes (1872 in NY – 1954 in NY) American marimba player, inventor and recording manager whose name was often used by various dance bands in the early years of jazz, even when Harry Yerkes was not musically active. He was responsible for the group known as Yerkes' Novelty Five, which recorded for Vocalion Records and Yerkes' Jazarimba (or Marimbaphone) Orchestra on Columbia Records, some of which were best-selling records...
Irving Aaronson & His Commanders - Let’s Do It, Fox-Trot (Cole Porter) from „Paris”, Vocal chorus by Phil Saxe and Jack Armstrong, Victor 1928 (USA) NOTE: Irving A. AARONSON (born 1895 in New York - died 1963 in Hollywood, CA) American jazz pianist and leader of a dance band that was one of the most popular in the US during the Roaring Twenties. At the age of 11, he played the piano and performed in silent movie theaters (Nickelodeons). At the age of 26, he co-wrote the hit “Boo-Hoo-Hoo” (1921). Aaronson's first band was called The...
Five Birmingham Babies – Hard Hearted Hannah, Fox-Trot (Bates) Pathé Actuelle 1924 (USA) NOTE: The Five Birmingham Babies were a small group hailing from the Califormia Ramblers (which included the future famous saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Rollini) that recorded several really fine dance-jazz albums for the Pathé Actuelle and Perfect labels in the mid-1920s. The slideshow shows some of the flappers from the Jazz Age, which we don't know if they had a hard heart, but quite possibly did.
Tadeusz Faliszewski & Ork. Syrena-Rekord - Pardon, pardon señora (Ach przebacz mi, señora) [Oryg. niem. Vergieb, vergieb Paloma] Tango (Brodszky-Allen), Syrena-Electro 1930 (Polish) NOTE: This tango was composed in 1929 by a very talented Hungarian composer Miklos Brodszky, whose career was bound to Wien and Berlin of the Weimar Republic times. He composed music to many comedy films, such as „Csibi” or „Skandal in Budapest” with Franziska Gaal. His slowfox „Kleine entzückende Frau" became a worldwide hit in 1933...
Jack Hylton and His Orchestra – The Gold Diggers’ Song (We’re In The Money) Fox-Trot from “Gold Diggers Of Broadway 1933” (Dubin-Warren) with Vocal Refrain, Decca 1933 (UK) NOTE: “Gold Diggers of 1933” is an American musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The film starred Warren William, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers. The plot is based on the play “The Gold Diggers” by Avery Hopwood, which ran for 717 performances on Broadway in 1919-20. The play was...
The Bluebirds (Harry Reser’s Band) – Let’s Misbehave, Fox-Trot (C.Porter) from „Paris”, with Vocal chorus nb Tom Stacks, Vocalion 1928 (USA) NOTE: One of Cole Porter's most famous songs is performed here by The Bluebirds, one of the many nicknames of the dance band led by banjo virtuoso Harry Reser. Their outstanding singer and drummer was Tom Stacks, who tragically died in a hotel fire shortly afterwards. The slideshow of this truly HOT! rendition features posters and photos illustrating the wild dance parties of the Roaring Twenties.
George Olsen & His Music – A Precious Little Thing Called Love, Fox-Trot from the Paramount Picture „Shopworn Angel” (Lou Davis – J. Fred Coots) with Vocal refrain (by Ethel Shutta) Victor 1928 (USA) NOTE: George OLSEN (born 1893 in Portland, Oregon - died 1971 in Paramus, NJ) American dance bandleader and drummer, founder of one of the best American dance bands active in the 1920s, which played throughout the US. There he formed his band George Olsen and His Music, which was engaged at the Multnomah Hotel in Portland. He then moved to...
Mieczysław Fogg - Wieczorny dzwon [Evening Bells] (...rang, when I first kissed you) Tango (Alabieff, Golwyn – Kuroń) Ork. Syrena Rekord, Syrena-Electro 1936 (Polish) NOTE: This lovely evening serenade is an old Russian song composed in 1828 by Russian composer Alexander Alabieff. It was transcribed into a popular tango in the 1930s by someone signed as B. Golwyn. I have not been able to determine who B. Golwyn was, but in available sources from the 1930s he is incorrectly referred to as “the composer of this tune.” Regardless, his...
Frank Ellis & His St. Francis Hotel Orchestra – Hop Skip, Fox-Trot (Caesar and Cohen) with Vocal refrain, Columbia 1927 (USA) NOTE: Frank ELLIS was a pianist in Art Hickman's famed dance orchestra in the early jazz era in USA. In 1923 he went to Australia with his own dance band. In a society hungry for news and not very versed in modern trends in dance music, he advertised his orchestra as "One of the oldest and most famous bands in the world." And indeed, he had a huge impact on the dance music played in Australian cities, introducing a...
Emilio Livi & Trio Lescano – Tu che mi fai piangere (You Who Make Me Cry) Canzone Slowfox dal Film „Questi Ragazzi” (Marf – Mascheroni) Orchestra Cetra dir. P. Barzizza, Parlophon 1937 (Italian) NOTE: Emilio LIVI (born in Florence in 1902 - died in Buenos Aires in 1973) Italian pop singer of the “radio era.” He was an auto mechanic and was taught to sing by a professional singer who heard him sing. After studying music as a light tenor, Livi made his debut at the Teatro Verdi in Florence in 1928 in Donizetti's opera “L'elisir d'amore.”...
Ben Berlin et son Orchestre – Parade d’Amour (My Love Parade) Fox-Trot du Film “Parade d’Amour” (Schertzinger) avec refrain anglais: The Theree Admirals, Polydor 1929 (French) NOTE: Ben BERLIN (born Hermann Biek 1896 in Tallinn, Estonia - died 1944 in London, UK) - Estonian jazz and pop musician, leader of a dance band. As a teenager, Biek performed in Tallinn as a pianist; in the years 1913-1919 he studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he received 3 diplomas (piano, composition and conducting). After the Bolshevik Revolution,...
Adam Aston z Orkiestrą, oraz Wiktor Tychowski na gitarze hawajskiej (with Orchestra & Wiktor Tychowski on Hawaiian guitar) – Bez śladu (Without A Trace) Tango (Petersburski-Stepień), Syrena-Electro 1936 (Polish) NOTE: The tango "Bez śladu” (Without a Trace) is another beautiful composition by the Polish "king of tangos" Jerzy Petersburski. It did not become as famous in the world as his "To ostatnia niedziela" (It’s the Last Sunday) or "O Donna Clara" (in Polish Tango Milonga), but nevertheless, it belongs to his most beautiful melodies....
Mieczysław Fogg & Ork. Syrena-Rekord - Ja Panią znam (I Know You, Madame) Tango (Dan-Fogg), 1937 (Syrena-Electro) Polish NOTE: This is a really special kind of tango. It should rather be called „a seduction instruction”. How a stage artist can pick up a beautiful woman he sees in the audience and get her to first write you a note and then secretly visit your flat. The refrain of the song describes this step by step: 'Here you are at last entering the gate of my tenement house - secretly, so that no one sees you,' sings Mieczysław Fogg. -...
Embassy Dance Band – Wishing And Waiting For Love, Fox-Trot from the First National talkie „Broadway Babies” (Clarke-Akst) Embassy 1929 (Australia) NOTE: Embassy Dance Band is believed to be an Australian studio dance orchestra active under the Embassy Records label operating from 1929 to 1931. The "Embassy" brand was introduced by G.J. Coles in Melbourne initially for gramophone records, but over the years it expanded to distribute hundreds of products, including food, clothes and home appliances. The Embassy brand's operations ended in...
Friedrick Hippmann mit seinem Melodie-Tanzorchester - Bel Ami (Du hast Glück bei den Frau’n, Bel Ami) [You’re Lucky With Women, Bel Ami] Foxtrott from Willi-Frost Film „Bel Ami” (T.Mackeben – H.F.Beckmann) – Odeon 1939 (German) NOTE: This is the title song of the German film hit of February 1939, also made famous by Tino Rossi's French interpretation https://youtu.be/wrT321jpGQw The film, based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, tells the story of the Parisian career of a handsome man who cynically uses his influential mistresses to...
Harold Leonard and His Orchestra – Blue Baby (Why Are You Blue?), Fox-Trot (Klages, Green and Haid) with Vocal chorus by Frank Harris, Columbia 1927 (USA) NOTE: All I've been able to find about Harold Leonard is that he was a violinist and leader, of the Waldorf Astoria Dance Orchestra in 1926 and 1927 (after bandleader Joseph Knecht, and before Meyer Davis). In the early 1920s he recorded for the Gennett and then Okeh labels as Harold Leonard and His Red Jackets. In the second half of the 1920s, he moved to the Brunswick and Columbia...
Gustaw Cybulski z Orkiestrą - Kocham cię, Giewoncie [I Love You, Giewont Mountain] Przyśpiewki góralskie (The Highlanders’ couplets) Odeon 1920 (Polish) NOTE: Gustaw CYBULSKI (alias Ignacy Ulatowski) - Polish cabaret and vaudeville actor, born in 1894 in Stryków (Lwów province). He was educated at the Lwów Conservatory and during World War I was a soldier in Józef Piłsudski's Legions. In 1920 he gained his first engagements in various provincial theaters, until he was recruited to the prestigious Warsaw “Novelty” theater. In later years,...
Kate SMITH & The Ambassadors’ Trio acc. by. Her Swanee Music – The Continental, Fox-Trot from the „Gay Divorcee” (Magidson-Conrad), Brunswick 1934 (USA) NOTE: Kate SMITH (born 1907 in Greenville, Virginia - died 1986 in Releigh, North Carolina) was an American white pop singer known as The Songbird of the South. Her earliest musical influences were her father, who sang in a Catholic church choir, and her mother, who played piano in a Presbyterian church. Kate attended business school in Washington, D.C., and then nursing school, which she...
The Kentucky Revellers (Harry Bidgood's Orchestra) – Mis Annabelle Lee, Fox-Trot (Sideny Clare - Lew Pollack - Harry Richman) with Vocal refrain, Broadcast Twelve, UK 1927 (produced in Australia) NOTE: The Kentucky Revellers was a pseudonym used by Harry Bidgood & his band. Harry BIDGOOD (b. in London 1898, d. in London 1957) was a British pianist and dance orchestra leader. He received an early musical education from his father and continued at the Royal College of Music. He began his professional career after the 1st World War as a...