Music suggestions teens and twenties?

[V.C. Brunswick]

The Albany Dance Orchestra (Savoy Orpheans) -- Who Cares? (1923)

[video=youtube;UlLvJdjJ_7w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlLvJdjJ_7w[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Marion Harris -- Take Me To The Land Of Jazz (1919)

[video=youtube;El5-NufGGt8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El5-NufGGt8[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Billy Murray -- Take Your Girlie To The Movies (1919)

[video=youtube;UJYJg9b6gJI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJYJg9b6gJI[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Atlantic Dance Orchestra -- California, Here I Come (1924)

[video=youtube;TJh_34smPWY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJh_34smPWY[/video]

 

[HadleyH]

Merry 1930s Christmas!Everybody! (ok a bit of 30s too LOL)

Christmas Night in Harlem - Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra

[video=youtube;h1eUsgsIBQk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1eUsgsIBQk[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

1. Aileen Stanley -- Back Where The Daffodils Grow (1924)
2. William Robyn -- The Pal That I Loved Stole The Gal That I Loved (1924)
3. Marion Harris -- Does My Sweetie Do, And How! (1925)
4. Marguerite Farrell -- Wonderful Girl, Good Night (1917)

[video=youtube;RuzFyG3Bh5c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuzFyG3Bh5c[/video]

 

[dhermann1]

One thing to keep in mind, I think, is that the music that most of us Loungers would like from that ear is probably jazzier and racier than what would have been most popular then. What the average American would have enjoyed back then would sound awfully frumpy to most of us nowadays.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Anybody who collects 78s knows what people were *really* listening to circa 1915-1920: Joseph C. Smith, Henry Burr, the Peerless Quartet, Prince's Orchestra, Cohen on the Telephone, and Billy Murray. And that fat rapscallion Paul Whiteman, but only if you were really up on the latest thing.

In the teens, *every* Victrola had a copy of Alma Gluck singing "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" somewhere near by, and in the late twenties, everybody owned Moran and Mack's "Two Black Crows, Part One and Two." These two records survive by the hundreds of thousands of copies today, and there is no accumulation of pre-WW2 78s in any American attic, garage, or basement, that doesn't include both of them.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Wild Romantic Blues

Jane Green (1920)

Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Ford Dabney's Band -- Round The Corner (1919)

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Herbert Stewart -- When The Lusitania Went Down (1915)

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Marion Harris -- I've Got A Cross-Eyed Papa (But He Looks Straight At Me) (1923)

[video=youtube;KochhtxJQ-4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KochhtxJQ-4[/video]

 

[Fletch]

Anybody who collects 78s knows what people were *really* listening to circa 1915-1920: Joseph C. Smith, Henry Burr, the Peerless Quartet, Prince's Orchestra, Cohen on the Telephone, and Billy Murray. And that fat rapscallion Paul Whiteman, but only if you were really up on the latest thing.

In the teens, *every* Victrola had a copy of Alma Gluck singing "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" somewhere near by, and in the late twenties, everybody owned Moran and Mack's "Two Black Crows, Part One and Two." These two records survive by the hundreds of thousands of copies today, and there is no accumulation of pre-WW2 78s in any American attic, garage, or basement, that doesn't include both of them.

In particularly zippy households you might also find the Six Brown Brothers, the pioneering saxophone vaudevillians - almost always their 200,000 selling Victor, That Moaning Saxophone Rag.
[video=youtube;tU5JEXMeFT0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU5JEXMeFT0[/video]

Playing catch-up to Paul Whiteman was Chicago's Isham Jones Orchestra, no show band but a sonorous ensemble with a great dance beat.
[video=youtube;gILpg5YWBS8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gILpg5YWBS8[/video]

 

[fashion frank]

While I am not suggesting any one artist , and with my swing collection topping the 600 c.d's (and I could suggest quite a few) , I have "found" alot of artist from listing to the 1920's radio network .
They are on 24/7 and play music from 1900 to 1949 and they have thousands upon thousands of tiles.

www.the1920snetwork.com

All the Best ,Fashion Frank

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra -- Stumbling (1922)

[video=youtube;P0Wag27y4Os]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Wag27y4Os[/video]

 

[Futwick]

Paul Tremaine & His Aristocrats "Four Four Rhythm" 1929 (VERY characteristic 20s sound):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3LS0PDFuR0

Fletcher Henderson's orchestra featuring Louis Armstrong "Shanghai Shuffle" 1925 (you can actually hear bop trying to form in Louis' horn):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-1OAGBBQz0

W.C. Handy "Ole Miss Rag" 1917:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrtil0s46-E

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Carl Fenton's Orchestra -- Moonlight (1921)

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

 

[Futwick]

The first known recorded song to use some form of the phrase "rock and roll" in the lyrics.

[video=youtube;Lp1qU-_qPok]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp1qU-_qPok[/video]

 

[herringbonekid]

Eddie Cantor: 'You'd be Surprised'. contains what i can only describe as a 'blatant musical innuendo'. funny stuff.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFM5wWCMOo[/video]

What the average American would have enjoyed back then would sound awfully frumpy to most of us nowadays.

as well as frumpy (which to me is visual rather than auditory) i would add: sentimental, corny, semi-operatic, plodding and creepy.
all of which are good if you're in the right mood.

 

[Futwick]

"Franco-American Rag" by Jean Schwartz from 1910. Schwartz was a famous songwriter at the turn of the century. He and William Jerome authored one of the most famous songs of that era--"Bedelia"--which was recorded by just about every singer of that era at least once. I know Arthur Collins and Billy Murray did. But I'm sure others did as Len Spencer, Dan W. Quinn, Harry MacDonough, S. H. Dudley (there were actually two--a white one and a black one), etc. Ragtime is my favorite music from this period. Contrary to what people might think, it was NOT early jazz. Ragtime and jazz coexisted and borrowed from one another. Then you have cakewalks and even the ragtimers and cakewalkers were not sure of the difference.

[video=youtube;qcOqWeBA1iY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcOqWeBA1iY[/video]