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Ross Gorman & His Earl Carroll Orchestra – Want a Little Lovin’, Fox-Trot (Warren-Davis) with Incidental singing by Harry and Charles Warren, Columbia 1925 (USA) NOTE: Ross GORMAN (b. 1890 John Ross Smeed Gorman in Paterson, NJ – d. 1953) American jazz clarinetist, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist. He played on 21 instruments and was described as someone who "made incredibly odd sounds with them”. Working with Paul Whiteman’s orchestra, Gorman made a famous clarinet glissando opening the Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue" recording of...
Chór Eryana – Cygańskie skrzypce (A Gypsy Violin) Tango (H. Rosner-Lira), Columbia 1932 (Polish) NOTE: The Eryan Choir was a popular pre-war Polish revelers group based in city of Lwów. Founded in 1930 by pianist and composer Jan Ernst (alias Er Yan, Eryan), they made debut in 1931 in an academic student revue at the Lwów Nowości Theater. Enthusiastically received by the public, they began recording sessions for Columbia a year later, gaining nationwide recognition, especially when they signed with Syrena Records in 1932 and later with...
Ray Miller & His Hotel Gibson Orchestra – Blue Baby (Why Are You Blue?) Fox-Trot (Klages, Green – Heid) with Vocal Trio, Brunswick 1927 (USA) NOTE: Ray MILLER (b. in Reading, Pennsylvania 1896 – d..1974) - American bandleader who was popular during the 1920s. In 1916, Ray Miller worked as a singing waiter at the Casino Gardens in Chicago, home of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and followed the ODJB to New York. There, around 1`920 Ray Miller formed his own band, the Black and White Melody Boys, featuring himself on drums and New Orleans...
Jack Denny & His Dance Orchestra – Forever And Ever With You, Fox-Trot (Davis-Burke) Brunswick 1926 (USA) NOTE: Unfortunately, only a handful of information about American bandleader Jack Denny is available online. Jack Denny was an American pianist and dance bandleader who began his career in the 1920s in Montreal, Canada. He is known to have played at the Mount Royal Hotel there, before moving to New York to perform at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. He formed a conventional dance orchestra, and in the late 1930s withdrew from the...
Kate Smith & Orch. dir by Jack Miller - Embraceable You (I.& G. Gershwin) from the Broadway show „Girl Crazy”, Columbia 1941 (USA) NOTE: The musical "Girl Crazy" with songs by George and Ira Gershwin, premiered at Broadway's Alvin Theatre in October 1930 and ran until June 1931 (274 performances). Ethel Merman, who made her debut in this play, and her co-star Ginger Rogers, both made sensational careers overnight, and Gershwin's songs "But Not For Me", "I Got Rhythm" or "Embraceable You" joined the list of America's must-haves. In 1943,...
Adam Aston z Orkiestrą Syrena Rekord - List ze Sorento (Letter From Sorrento) Chanson (B. Zerkovitz – A.Eibl) Syrena –Electro 1934 (Polish) NOTE: Adam ASTON - one of the best pre-war Polish pop singers. Today he presents a Hungarian romance about Italy, written in the 1930s by renowned Hungarian composer Béla Zerkovitz with Polish lyrics by Aleksandr Eibel. Zerkovitz composed music for several Hungarian films in the 1930s, and some of his songs were also performed in Warsaw cabarets, where they became hits, such as „Ach, te warszawianki!”...
Don Clark & His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra – Just One More Kiss, Fox-Trot (A.Bell – L.Berger) with Vocal chorus by Betty Patrick, Columbia 1926 (USA) NOTE: Don (Donald E.) CLARK (b.1896 in Santa Monica, CA – d. 1963 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 playing on sax and clarinet in Paul Whiteman's orchestra. From 1925 he led his own dance band which recorded several albums for the Victor and Columbia...
Karkoff-Orchester – Das Lied der Liebe [Hat eine suesse Melodie] (This Song od Love / Has such a sweet Melody) Tango (Meisel), Derby 1929 (German) NOTE: Karkoff-Orchester was usually a Derby Records pseudonym for many of the well-known German dance orchestras in the Weimar Republic (Marek Weber, Paul Godwin, Sam Baskini and many other dance bands). Identifying them is not always an easy task. Derby records were cheap and mass-produced 10-inch dance records, very popular in Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s. Their repertoire was usually...
Eddie South (violin), Django Reinhardt (guitar), Wilson Myers (bass) – Sweet Georgia Brown, Fox-Trot (Pickard-Bernie-Casey), HMV 1938 (Recorded in Paris; British pressing) NOTE: Edward Otha ("Eddie") SOUTH (born 1904 in Louisiana, Missouri - died 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) - American jazz violinist dubbed the "Black Angel of the Violin." He was a child prodigy of classical violin and studied violin in Chicago, Paris and Budapest. He turned to jazz when it became clear that there was no place for a black musician in classical music. In the...
Chór Dana (The Dan’s Choir) - Śpij , moje serce cichutko (Sleep Quietly, My Heart...] Tango (Oskar Strock – Polish text by Andrzej Włast) Gramplastrest 1934 (USSR) NOTE: These days, with the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, where thousands of residents are suffering from entire property loss, despair and pain, I've been thinking about taking a break from posting fun hot dance music on my channel, since I know I have a lot of listeners in California where the elements are currently raging. Our friends certainly have other worries on their...
Joe Candullo and His Everglades Orchestra – Hard-To-Get-Gertie, Fox-Trot (Yellen-Ager) with Vocal chorus by Joe Candullo, Regal 1926 (USA) NOTE: NOTE: Joseph "Joe" CANDULLO (born Giuseppe Antonio Candullo in 1901 in New York City - died 1977 in New York City) American dance bandleader who flourished in the US in the mid-to-late 1920s, though he remained active in public performances from 1930-40s. The son of Italian immigrants, Joe Candullo was spotted in 1921 as a member of the all-Italian Billy Madden's Crescent City Orchestra, which was...
Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens – Un sourire en chantant (du film „Snow White & 7 Dwarfs”) Musique: Frank Churchill, Refrain chanté par André Dassary, Pathé 1938 (French) NOTE: Ray VENTURA (b. 1908, Paris, France - d. 1979, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) - Jewish-French jazz pianist and dance band leader. He popularized jazz (swing) in France in the 1930s. The famous French singer Sacha Distel was his nephew. Ray began his career as a pianist for a band called the Collegiate Five, which began recording as Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens for the...
Edward Jasiński i Ork. po dyr. Iwo Wesby’ego – Czy tutaj mieszka panna Agnieszka? [Does Miss Agnes Live Here?] Tango z f-mu „Trójka hultajska”[from the film comedy Three Rascals] (Wars-Schlechter) Syrena-Electro 1938 (Polish) NOTE: Polish film Three Rascals („Trójka hultajska”; 1938) was a comedy about three shoemaker apprentices in a small town who won million zlotys in a lottery and went to Warsaw. Having divided the winnings into three parts, they agreed to meet next year in the same place. After a year, it turned out that two had...
!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 !!! To all Friends and visitors in my channel in YT Lenzberg’s Riverside Orchestra - Ain’t We Got Fun, Fox-Trot (Kahn-Egan-Whiting) with Vocal chorus by Arthur Hall, Paramount 1921 (USA) NOTE: In the early jazz era, the 'New' Riverside Theatre' located on the corner of Broadway and 96th St. was one of the finest vaudeville houses in New York. The venue needed an ensemble and in 1919, violinist, pianist and composer Julius Lenzberg of Baltimore was hired to lead the...
Picadilly Players Dir. Mel Morris - Take Your Tomorrow (And Give Me Today) Fox-Trot (Andy Razaf-J.C.Johnson) with Singing, Edison 1928 (USA) NOTE: When in the mid-1927, mass electrical recordings began in most of the American recording companies, Edison was the last major record producer to adopt it, over two years after Victor Records, Columbia Records, and Brunswick Records had converted from acoustical recording. The lateral-cut thin “needle type” Edison records were introduced in August of 1929 but although their audio quality was...
Norma Bruni – Notte [At Night] (Buzzacchi) Orchestra EIAR dir. Angelini, Cetra 1939 (Italian) NOTE: Norma BRUNI (born 1913 in Bologna, Italy - died 1971 in Milan, Italy) - Italian pop singer remembered for her exceptionally warm and original voice, extraordinary beauty and nonconformist personality. She was the most recognized diva of Italian song during the World War II years, called the Divine Norma or the Voice of Black Velvet. Her outstanding sensual interpretations infused a whole generation of Italian radio listeners with hypnotic...
Alina Bolechowska & Chór Czejanda (Czejand’s Choir) – Witaj gwiazdko złota! (Na niebios przestworze) [Welcome, O Golden Star! / On The Skies Above] Polish Christmas Carol (Z. Noskowski), Muza 1948 (Polish) TO ALL MY DEAR FRIENDS AND PARTICIPANTS IN THIS CHANNEL: HAPPY AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS !!!!!!!!!! 2024 !!!!!!!!! NOTE: Alina BOLECHOWSKA (b. 1924 in Warsaw - d. 2002...
Six Jumping Jacks – Crazy Words-Crazy Tune (Vo-Do-De-O) Fox-Trot (Yellen – Ager) with Vocal trio by The Bonnie Laddies, Brunswick 1927 (USA) NOTE: Six Jumping Jacks was a group of studio musicians led by banjo virtuoso and dance band leader Harry Reser. It was one of many groups led by Harry Reser in the 1920s and was notable for its particularly innovative style. The Six Jumping Jacks played light, peppy music with a comic touch - this is what the general public considered jazz in the 1920s. Musicians such as trumpeters Tommy Gott and Earl...
Will Osborne singing with His Orchestra and with Morton Downey, Annette Hanshaw, Singin’ Sam – Say It Isn’t So, Perfect 1932 (USA) NOTE: Will OSBORNE (b. 1905 as William Osborne Oliphant in Toronto, Canada – d. 1981 in Santa Monica, CA) - Canadian-born American bandleader, trombonist and crooner. He began his musical career playing in local dance bands as a multi-instrumentalist (drums and cornet, trumpet, slide trombone). In 1924 Osborne formed his own dance orchestra, but had to wait until April 1929 to rise in popularity, when Rudy...
Chór Juranda – Czerwony Kapturek (Little Red Riding Hood), Slow-fox (Dan-Oldlen) Syrena-Electro 1935 (Polish) NOTE: It's a fun song sung by a group of men trying to remember how the fairy tale about Little Red Riding Hood runs. But they get it all mixed up: which way did the girl go, who did she meet on the way, a wolf or a bear, or maybe three bears, and what did she carry in a basket for her grandmother (one of the soloists claims she carried her vodka!). One singer keeps correcting the other and so another „nonsense song” is created - so...