Brunswick 4677 – Harry Richman with Earl Burtnett and his Los Angeles...
Today, August 10th, marks the 120th birthday of one of my favorite vaudevillians, Harry Richman, so for your listening pleasure today, I present one of my favorite records of all time, one of the best...
View ArticleVictor 25094 – Ray Noble and his Orchestra – 1935
On January 7, 1898, Albert Allick Bowlly, better known as Al, was born in Mozambique. He spent his childhood in South Africa, where he found his first work as a singer with Edgar Adeler’s band, which...
View ArticleA Crown Dance Band Double Feature – 3149 & 3281 – 1931/1932
This Dance Band Double Feature is dedicated to Smith Ballew, who was born on this day (January 21) in 1902. Under his frequently used pseudonym, Buddy Blue and his Texans, Ballew and his band play...
View ArticleMelotone M 12828 – Joe Venuti and his Orchestra – 1933
I spent some time carefully deliberating over an appropriate record for this Easter. I considered a variety of rural sacred material, but nothing seemed to fit properly, before it hit me: what song...
View ArticleOkeh 41393 – Carl Webster and his Yale Collegians – 1930
Born on this day 128 years ago was one of the finest songwriters Tin Pan Alley has ever known, Irving Berlin. Berlin was born Israel Isidore Baline in the Russian Empire on May 11, 1888, and emigrated...
View ArticleMadison 6002 – Cosmopolitan Dance Players/Levee Syncopators – 1930
My sincere apologies for the long delay in posting here, I was preoccupied with other matters and couldn’t find the time nor the inspiration to come up with anything good to say. But, in the words of...
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