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Marek Weber & His Orchestra – The Church Bells Chiming (Die Alte Spieluhr) Tango (Reisfeld-Marbot) with German refrain, HMV 1932 (Recorded in Germany; British product) NOTE: This song is originally Germen and refers to the sound of an old clockwork music box (Spieluhr in German). The English text changes it into the ringing of the church bells. My slideshow however reflects the original idea and presents some pictures of the vintage „spieluhrs”.

Ambrose & His Orchestra with Vocal by Anne Shelton - You’ll Never Know, Slow-fox-trot (Mack Gordon – Harry Warren), Decca 1943 (UK) NOTE: This is one of the most beautiful songs composed by Harry Warren, author of such hits as 'Lullaby Of Broadway' (1936), 'Jeepers Creepers' (1938) and 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' (1941). The song 'You'll Never Know' was featured in the 1943 film 'Hello Frosco, Hello' starring Alice Faye, telling the story of the first transcontinental telephone call organised by inventor Alexander Graham Bell between San...

Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra – Wonderful One, Waltz (M. Neilan, P. Whiteman & Ferdie Grofé), HMV 1923 (Recorded in USA, British product) NOTE: To the rhythm of this beautifully melancholic waltz by Paul Whiteman, I send some images of beautiful women o the very far-away past.

Max Fisher & His California Orchestra - (How Can You Stay So Far Away?) So Long, Fox-Trot (Miller, Hoefler & Burke) with Vocal refrain by Murray Layson and Newlin, Columbia, 1929 (USA) NOTE: When you listen to such a good dance band from the 1920s, it is hard to believe that today its name is almost absent in the history of American pop music. Max Fisher's dance orchestra seems to have been active in California in the 1920s (at least it has California in its name). The band made some very good dance recordings in the late 1920s, only to...

Tadeusz Faliszewski - Miłość cię zgubiła [This Love/ And The Bad Girl / Have Lost You] Tango z rewii „Idzie wiosna” (from theatre Morskie Oko revue „Spring Is Coming!”) Muz. Fanny Gordon, Text: T. Stach, Syrena-Electro 1931 (Polish) NOTE: Today is the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War - the greatest man-made catastrophe in the history of the Earth. Invaded in September 1939 by the Germans from the west and the Soviet Red Army from the east, Poland was one of the victims most affected by the destruction and...

Hollywood Dance Orchestra (Nathan Glantz & his Orchestra?) - Hot-Hot-Hottentot, Fox-Trot / Charleston (Fisher) Apex 1925 (Recorded in USA; Canadian pressing) NOTE: In the hot-dance era of the Roaring 20s, the nick Hollywood Dance Orchestra was used by many American dance bands on several labels, such as Banner, Crown, Domino, Imperial, Pathe Actuelle or Regal, including well-known dance orchestras of the time as Nathan Glantz, Joseph Samuels and Sam Lanin. I took the liberty of choosing Nathan Glantz's band as performer in this recording.

Qrquesta Argentina Salvador Pizzaro – Adios muchachos (Vodari & Sanders) Tango with singing, Regal 1929 (Spanish product. Originally recolrded for French "Columbia"). NOTE: In the years 1910-20, Paris was flooded with a veritable wave of Argentine tango orchestras. Among them were orchestras from Bueinos Aires and Montevideo playing in Parisian cabarets and dance halls, and numerous sought-after gramophone records. Often entire family clans of tango performers appeared in Europe, such as Francisco and Raphael Canaro, Manuel and Salvador...

W.M.C.A. Broadcasters (Ben Selvin’s Band) - My Cutey’s Due At Two-To-Two To-Day, Fox-Trot (Robin-Von Tilzer) Velvet Tone 1926 (USA) NOTE: Here's another brilliant dance recording by Ben Selvin (this time under the pseudonym W.M.C.A. Broadcasters). This is my farewell track, uploaded just hours before I leave for my summer holidays. After very busy six months, I'm looking forward to these few summer days by the sea, and I also wish everyone to have beautiful last days of summer. See you soon!

Jimmy Joy’s Orch. – You’re The First Thing I Think Of In The Morning, Fox-Trot (Tracy-Stanley) with Vocal Chorus, Brunswick 1928 (Recorded in USA; British product) NOTE: Jimmy JOY (b. 1902 as James Monte Maloney – d. 1962) - American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and dance bandleader known of his ability to play two clarinets simultaneously. Jimmy Joy's orchestra never ranked among the top bands of the Swing era, but gained fame as a popular regional band in Texas. Jimmy formed his band in the mid-1920s on the campus of the University of...

Tadeusz FALISZEWSKI & Orkiestra – Oczekiwanie (Expectancy) Tango (Wars – Włast) z teatru „Morskie Oko”, Syrena-Electro 1932 (Polish) NOTE: The song might as well have been entitled "The Lighthouse Keeper's Call". It was sung in the Morskie Oko theater by a lonely man standing on top of a cardboard lighthouse, where he keeps waiting for his woman who abandoned him many years ago. Probably the poor woman couldn't imagine spoending rest of her life on a tiny piece of land lost in the endless sea. He believes, however, that one day she will...

Waldorf-Astoria Dance Orchestra dir. by Joseph Knecht – Tell Me, Fox-Trot (Kortlander-Callahan), Chorus by: Irving Kaufman, Columbia 1919 (USA) NOTE: Joseph KNECHT (1864-1931) American dance bandleader, director of dance orchestra at New York's Waldorf Astoria from 1908 to 1925. Knecht was born in 1864 in Bukovina (Austrian Empire) where he played the violin from an early age. He studied civil engineering at the Vienna University earning money by performing at the Hofburg Theatre. He however left civil engineering to study violin at the...

Dajos Bélas Danseorkester – Jalousie, Tango (Jacob Gade) Odeon 1929 (Recorded in Berlin; Danish product) NOTE: Dajos Béla dance orchestra - one of the best dance bands of Weimar Berlin plays "Jalousie" - one of the most famous tangos in the history of European popular music. It was composed by Jacob Gade - Danish composer and conductor of the Palais Cinema orchestra in Copenhagen - and published in 1925 under the title 'Jalousie. Tango Tzigane'. The following year, the piece was published in New York and Paris and recorded in Berlin for the...

Austin Wylie’s Golden Pheasant Orchestra – Could I? I Certainly Could, Fox-Trot (Charleston) (Yellen-Ager) with Vocal chorus, Vocalion 1926 (USA) NOTE: Austin James WYLIE (born 1893 in Cleveland, Ohio – died 1947 in Parma, Ohio) – American dance bandleader, who in the 1920s and 1930s led a dance band based in Cleveland, Ohio. It operated as a territory band, though it also broadcast on national radio. While the band was engaged at the famous Golden Pheasant Restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio (1925-1926), it billed itself as Austin Wylie's...

Orkiestra "Columbia" pod dyr. Henryka Golda & Stefan Witas (refren) – Za późno [Too Late] (Today is too late / Time past will not return) Tango z rewii „Miłość i tango” w „Wesołym Teatrze” (Karasiński-Jerry) Columbia 1933 (Polish) NOTE: This hit was composed by the famous Polish pre-war saxophonist, composer and dance band leader Zygmunt Karasiński - author of such hits as tango "Czy pamiętasz tę noc w Zakopanem?" (Do you remember that night in Zakopane? https://youtu.be/NvpCN9GN9GI) or one of Polish evergreens sung by Chór Dana „Pamiętam...

Orchester Lewis Ruth - Ruth, tanze heut Kubanisch mit mir! [Ruth, Dance Something Cuban With Me Now!] Rumba / Foxtrot (Meisel-Rosen) Refrain: Johannes Maximilian, Electrola 1931 (Germany) NOTE: Lewis RUTH (b. Ludwig Rüth in 1889 in Landau, Germany – d. 1941 in Durban, South Africa) - German conductor of a dance band. From 1909 he studied flute, composition and conducting at the Munich Conservatory, as well as philosophy, medicine and musicology at the University of Munich. During Great War he was drafted into the army as an orchestra...

Ambrose & His Orchestra, at the Embassy Club in London – The Show Is Over, Fox-Trot (Dubin, Conrad, Coslow) with Vocal Chorus, Brunswick 1934 (UK) NOTE: Bert AMBROSE born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1896 as Benjamin Baruch Berofski - died 1971 in London. Known as Bert Ambrose, leader of one of the best British dance bands of the golden era, playing dance music with a strong flavour of Ellington-inspired jazz. His heyday was in the early and middle years of the1930s, when he led dance orchestras at some of the West End's finest dance venues:...

The Great White Way Orchestra – Baby Blue Eyes, Fox-Trot (Hirsch-Jessel-Greer) Victor 1922 (USA) NOTE: The Great White Way Orchestra was Victor’s studio orchestra under the direction of Hugo Frey, recording between 1922 - 1923. The orchestra was named after the nickname for a section of Broadway, the Theater District between 42nd and 53rd Streets in New York City. The same orchestra members also redorded dance sides in other Victor house orchestras like The Troubadours, The Serenaders, The Manhattan Merrymakers, The Virginians.

Lucyna Szczepańska & Ork. pod dyr. Olgierda Straszyńskiego – Walc z operetki „Księżna Czardaszka” (Waltz from Operetta The Csardas Princess) (E. Kálmán - Makowiecka), Syrena-Electro 1935, Polish NOTE: The Csadas Princess is the English title of the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán. It premiered at the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna in November 1915. A year later it was staged in Budapest, and soon afterwards it had sensational premieres hrroughout Europe including Warsaw in 1917. Lucyna SZCZEPAŃSKA was...

Edwin J. McEnelly's Orchestra - Take Your Tomorrow (And Give Me Today) Fox-Trot (Andy Razaf – J.C.Johnson ) Vocal refrain by Jim Miller & Charlie Farrell, Victor 1928 (USA) NOTE: Edwin J. McEnelly (1879-1958) was American violinist and dance bandleader, he organized his first dance orchestra in 1902 in Milford, Massachusetts, then he played in various places in New England and in the Riverside Park – an early amusement park in Springfield, Massachusetts. McEnelly was skilled on many instruments and played violin in his orchestra. He was...

Ben Bernie & His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra – Mandy (Make Up Your Mind) Fox-Trot from „Dixie to Broadway” (Meyer-Johnston) Vocalion 1924 (USA) ATTENTION: I am uploading this side again, after some adjustment that had to be made to the music track. Here are also my THANKS to our Russian-speaking You Tube friend EGOOPOW who pointed out the incorrect recording speed. Spasibo EGOOPOW ! Спасибо, что указали мне на то, что запись была слишком быстрой. Действительно, мне пришлось внести коррективы, и теперь все должно быть в...