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Jules Herbuveaux & His Orchestra – Marvelous, Fox-Trot (Rose) with Vocal Chorus (Frank Sylvano), Brunswick 1927 (USA) NOTE: Jules HERBUVEAUX was a popular Chicago bandleader of the 1920s. His recordings from his heyday in 1927-29 represent the fabulous hot dance style of the Midwestern white dance orchestra, which can also be found in recordings by Paul Ash, the Benson Orchestra of Chicago or Isham Jones. In the late 1920s, Jules Herbuveaux's orchestra played at the Palmer House, one of downtown Chicago's major hotels during the Jazz Age,...

Ben Bernie & His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra – I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling, Fox-Trot (Rose-Link-Waller) with Vocal Chorus by Scrappy Lambert, Brunswick 1929 (USA) NOTE: Ben BERNIE (born Bernard Anselevitz 1891 in Bayonne, NJ - died 1943 in Beverly Hills, CA) - American jazz violinist, composer of the song "Sweet Georgia Brown", which became one of the biggest jazz hits in history, and successful leader of the Ben Bernie and All The Lads orchestra (later renamed Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra). His band was undoubtedly at the...

Adam Aston & Ork. Syrena Rekord - Miasteczko Bełz, Tango (Muzyka: Burstein, Lith – Polish text: Frey, Roman) [Meyn Shtetl Bełz, tango from Yddishe Operetta „Dos Lid fun Getto” (A Song From Ghetto) in theatre Eldorado, Warsaw (1932)] Syrena-Electro 1935 (Polish) NOTE: It is one of the best performances of this famous Polish-Jewish tango ever. From its creation in the 1930s until today, it has become so popular that is considered until now one of the national melodies from the Jewish national songbook. In general, there is quite a mess...

Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra – Sweet Thing, Fox-Trot (Williams-Kahn-Verges) with Vocal refrain & ukulele by Johnny Marvin, Victor 1926 (USA) NOTE: Nat SHILKRET (b. 1895 Nathaniel Schildkraut in Queens, NY). He showed remarkable musical ability as a child, first taking up the violin and the clarinet before age five. He studied piano with Charles Hambitzer, who also taught George Gershwin, and was a good enough musician so that he never had to rely on the civil engineering degree that he later earned in order to make a living --...

Paul Whiteman's Orchestra – San, Fox-Trot (Lindsay McPhail & Walter Michels) HMV 1928 (UK) NOTE: It’s a fantastic jazzy, dynamic, bouncy, energetic, joyful, melodic 1928 arrangement of the jazz classic "San" by Bill Challis. It also features some fine Tommy Dorsey’s solos as well as Bix Beiderbecke cornet. Whiteman’s earlier version of this tune was recorded in 1924. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yuUNZdnDs0 Compare these two! Many jazz lovers know the tune well yet only a few know the lyrics. The song was written in 1920 and the words...

Piccadilly Dance Band – ‘Cause I Feel Low Down, Fox-Trot (Trent, Rose) Piccadilly 1928 (UK) NOTE: The identity of the Piccadilly Dance Band is not completely known. Some authors believe that it was Allan Selby who led the band. However, it is more often believed to be the nickname of Billy Cotton's orchestra. Billy Cotton was one of the greatest bandleaders of the golden era of British dance bands (from the late 1920s to the 1930s). In 1924 he formed his first dance orchestra: the London Savannah Band, which at various times employed such...

Tadeusz Faliszewski – Przebacz (To moja wina i błąd) [Forgive Me / It Was My Fault And Mistake] Tango (Petersburski – Włast) z teatru „Morskie Oko" w rewii „Milion złotych” (from Morskie Oko revue „Million Zlotys”) Syrena-Electro 1930 (Polish) NOTE: Tango „Forgive Me” (Przebacz) is another great Polish hit of the 1930s composed by Jerzy Peterburski (who wrote such world hits as O, Donna Clara! and It's the Last Sunday.) „Przebacz” is performed on my channel also by Adam Aston with the Henry Gold Orchestra....

Jan Garber & His Orchestra – By The Light Of The Stars, Fox-Trot (Sizemore-Little-Shay), Voctor 1925 (USA) NOTE: Jan GARBER (born 1894 in Indianapolis, Indiana - died 1977 in Shreveport, Louisiana) was an American violinist and dance band leader. Garber played violin in the Philadelphia Symphony until 1921, when he formed a dance band with pianist Milton Davis under the name Garber-Davis Orchestra. After 1924, he led his own dance orchestra, which remained active and successful throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Called the 'Idol of the...

Ray Miller & His Orchestra – Spanish Shawl, Fox-Trot (Schoebel) Brunswick 1926 (USA) NOTE: Ray MILLER (b. in Reading, Pennsylvania 1896 – d..1974) - American bandleader popular during the 1920s. In 1916, he worked as a singing waiter at the Casino Gardens in Chicago, where he befriended members of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and followed them to NY. Around 1920 Ray Miller formed his own band, the Black and White Melody Boys, who performed in vaudeville and featured in several musical productions before disbanding. Miller formed...

Aldo Visconti & Orch. Ceragioli - Violetta, Tango (Klose-Lukesch) con Trio Vocale, Odeon 1936 (Italian) NOTE: In the second half of the 1930s, a fashion developed in Germany for so-called tango-habaneras, composed on the motifs of well-known operas. Two such compositions became worldwide hits: tango-habanera composed by Lothar Brühne 'Der Wind Hat Mir Ein Lied Erzählt' (The Wind Sang This Song For Me) and performed in 1937 by Zarah Leander in her hit film 'La Habanera' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Cv0sV3Gms The second was 'Violetta',...

Mieczysław Fogg & Ork. Syrena Rekord – Krople deszczu (Raindrops) Tango (Hochleitner-Lipski) Syrena-Electro 1936 (Polish) NOTE: This is the Polish version of German tango 'Regentropfen' (Raindrops), popular in Europe in the late 1930s. Made famous by numerous German performers, including tenor Herbert Ernst Groh, mega-popular pop singer Rudi Schuricke or countless German dance orchestras, it has also found an excellent interpreter in Poland. Mieczysław Fogg's velvety baritone perfectly adds to the mood of this dreamy melody.

Orchestre Sándor Józsi (Dajos Béla Tanz-Orchester) - Elle s'etait fait couper les ch'veux (She Cut Her Hair Short) One-Step (René Mercier) Odeon c. 1925 (Recorded in Germany; French product) NOTE: Kapelle Sándor Józsi was the nick name Dajos Béla's used for recordings on Carl Lindström's record labels in Germany (Odeon, Beka, Gloria and Parlophon). In the second half of the 1920s, the pseudonym gave way to Dajos Béla Tanz-Orchester, and so it has remained. The title of the piece refers to the fashion of the new women of the charleston era:...

Roaring Twenties: Arthur Lange’s Orch. – Rose Of Bombay, Fox-Trot (Ward-Dyson). Cameo 1922 (USA) NOTE: Arthur LANGE (1889 -1956) American bandleader and composer, who composed music for over 120 films, including Grand Canary and Woman on the Run. Lange shared an Oscar nomination with Hugo Friedhofer for the film The Woman in the Window. During the first half of the 1920s Lange recorded for Cameo Records. He himself played both piano and banjo and was also a prolific arranger of dance band orchestrations during the 1920s. His orchestrations...

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...