Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?

[V.C. Brunswick]

Efim Schachmeister mit sein Künstler-Ensemble -- Dear One (1926)

[video=youtube;EDZqXXVDQSc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDZqXXVDQSc&feature=channel_video_title[/video]

 

[Henry Gondorff]

It's good to have you back in the Lounge, V.C.! If You Knew Susie - Jack Shilkret's Orchestra 1925

[video=youtube;CTlRMMNPFHE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTlRMMNPFHE[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The vocalist sounds like Billy Murray.

Jack Shilkret's Orchestra -- Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie (1925)
vocal by Billy Murray

[video=youtube;afVmUHmAUDI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afVmUHmAUDI[/video]

And here's an unusual one by Jack's famous brother "Natto Shirukuretto" lol

Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra of America -- Shin Gion Kouta (c. 1927)
Japan Victor pressing

[video=youtube;0aRuk1PCwmg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aRuk1PCwmg[/video]

 

[Shangas]

Here's one of my favourite late 1920s dance-tracks. Published in 1928, "Dance Little Lady" was an extremely popular turn-of-the-decade jazz number:

[video=youtube;IsA_xWsKaRY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsA_xWsKaRY[/video]

Can't you imagine this pumping out into a ballroom and couples Charlestoning away to this in some swanky hotel party?

The recording shown above is purely instrumental, but believe it or not, this song was recorded with words by other artists (such as the Roger Wolfe-Kahn Orchestra)...

Dance, dance, dance little lady,
You'll be fleeting,
To the rhythm beating,
In your mind,

Dance, dance, dance little lady,
So obsessed with second-best,
The rest you'll never find,

Time and tide and trouble,
Never, never wait,
Let the cauldron bubble,
Justify your fate!

Dance, dance, dance little lady,
Dance, dance, dance little lady,
Leave tomorrow behind!

Another beautiful but underrated song, performed here by the Bert Ambrose Orchestra (same as above), "Then I'll Be Tired of You"

[video=youtube;fiXPjGG7ge4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiXPjGG7ge4&feature=related[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Eddie Brown and his Orchestra -- If I Had A Talking Picture Of You
Waring's Pennsylvania -- Nesting Time
Edwin J. McEnelly's Orchestra -- My Sunday Girl
Arden & Ohman's Orchestra -- There's Everything Nice About You

[video=youtube;wGJYVaeBOQk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGJYVaeBOQk[/video]

 

[Shangas]

Picking out "Dance Little Lady" on the piano at the moment. If anyone wants to try it, the key is F-major. Start on A. Chords are F, C7, Am and C (probably more chords, but I haven't figured it all out yet).

 

[HadleyH]

The Savoy Orpheans: I Need Some Cooling Off/ My Heart Stood Still I love the mix of these two songs in one verrrrry, verrrry satisfactory!


This is a cartoon of the Savoy Orpheans in 1926, one of the bands resident at the Savoy Hotel in London of course!

[video=youtube;Ar4CieSTjWQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4CieSTjWQ[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

^^^

Sydney Kyte and his Piccadilly Hotel Band -- Me (1931)

[video=youtube;_ADDgTshUJk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ADDgTshUJk&feature=related[/video]

 

[Shangas]

Weimar Jazz

In the mid-1920s to the early-1930s, Germany experienced a cultural renaissance that it wouldn't have again until the 1990s. Here's Julian Fuhs and His Orchestra performing "Hop, Skip", from 1927:

[video=youtube;6Egg_K3d-wc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Egg_K3d-wc[/video]

Fuhs was a German bandleader and pianist. He was born in November, 1891 in Germany. Probably fearing Nazism, he fled Germany in the second half of the 1930s. He died in Maiami, Florida in the United States in February, 1975.

More Weimar Jazz:

[video=youtube;aZLFjnfSzi8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZLFjnfSzi8[/video]

This is "Tea for Two" recorded by the popular 1920s/1930s German male harmony group "The Comedian Harmonists". The Harmonists were broken up after 1935. Because many in the group were Jewish, the band was forbidden to give performances. The Jewish members fled to the United States. The 'Aryan' members tried to carry on without their friends, but the Nazi crackdown on "english-sounding band-names" meant that their lives as performing artists was pretty much killed off during the second half of the 1930s.

Here is the Harmonists' take on the popular 1930s song "Night and Day" (sung in German as "Tag und Nacht"):

[video=youtube;eM44L3ciH4k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM44L3ciH4k[/video]

"Hop, Skip" was a very popular late-1920s jazz-song. It was recorded not only by Fuhs, but also by the Hotel St. Francis Orchestra in San Francisco and by the Savoy Orpheans in London, house bands for their respective hotels: the Hotel St. Francis and the Savoy.

Here is the Hotel St. Francis Orchestra rendition:

[video=youtube;bcpW5cHhtww]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcpW5cHhtww[/video]

Unfortunately I can't find a video of the Savoy Orpheans recording on Youtube, but it is marvellous.

 

[HadleyH]

^^^

He appears in the caricature I posted! Did he belong to the Savoy Orpheans too? and then made his own band?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

He appears in the caricature I posted! Did he belong to the Savoy Orpheans too? and then made his own band?

Yes, that's him. Also Arthur Lally was in the band and eventually went on to lead his own.

Arthur Lally and his Orchestra -- Dance Of The Cuckoos (1932)
vocal by Al Bowlly

[video=youtube;bHNPKkvcK38]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHNPKkvcK38[/video]

 

[HadleyH]

Yes, that's him. Also Arthur Lally went on to lead his own band.

ohhhh ok! thank you for that!

 

[Shangas]

More Comedian Harmonists, performing "Mein Kleine Gruner Kaktus" ("My Little Green Cactus"):

[video=youtube;HyqzJTNcygE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyqzJTNcygE[/video]

70+ years later, we have the incomparable Max Raabe und das Palast Orchester with a 21st Century rendition:

[video=youtube;TjMw0kEw6B0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjMw0kEw6B0&feature=related[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Another Savoy Orpheans alumnus:

Billy Thorburn and his Music -- No Regrets (1936)

[video=youtube;rZt_nL41hkg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZt_nL41hkg[/video]

 

[HadleyH]

"Hop, Skip" was a very popular late-1920s jazz-song. It was recorded not only by Fuhs, but also by the Hotel St. Francis Orchestra in San Francisco and by the Savoy Orpheans in London, house bands for their respective hotels: the Hotel St. Francis and the Savoy.

Here is the Hotel St. Francis Orchestra rendition:

[video=youtube;bcpW5cHhtww]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcpW5cHhtww[/video]

Verrry nice! thank you!!!!

 

[Shangas]

It is very very nice. One of my favourite songs.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

This is fast becoming one of my favorite dance bands of the '20s and '30s

Efim Schachmeister mit seinem Jazz-Symphonie-Orchester -- Am Cap Der Guten Hoffnung (1928)
(On The Cape Of Good Hope)

[video=youtube;HkKxOnVu-wM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkKxOnVu-wM[/video]

 

[Shangas]

Very cool, V.C.B.

To think all the stuff that Germany lost after 1933...

 

[HadleyH]

To think all the stuff that Germany lost after 1933...

Berlin before 1933 was a hot place to be!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Schachmeister, like many from the Weimar period, was Jewish and left Germany for Argentina in 1933 where he led bands until his death in 1944.