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Post by madmurray on Jan 9, 2021 20:19:00 GMT 1
I got the book of the above title by Robert Dimery. Excellent book full of great info.
I think I will post the songs in this thread as I go through them to share. Feel free to comment or ignore.
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Enrico Caruso - O Sole Mio - 1916
WRITER: Giovanni Capurro, Eduardo Di Capua PRODUCER: Uncredited LABEL: Victor Talking Machine ALBUM: N/A
"An epic ballad that effortlessly blends popular song and opera".
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Post by madmurray on Jan 9, 2021 20:32:16 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Bessie Smith - St Louis Blue - 1925
WRITER: W.C. Handy PRODUCER: Uncredited LABEL: Columbia ALBUM: N/A
"A tale of how her love has run away with a chic St Louis Woman"
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Post by madmurray on Jan 9, 2021 20:45:30 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Joe and Cléoma Falcon - Allons à Lafayette - 1928
WRITER: Traditional PRODUCER: Uncredited LABEL: Columbia ALBUM: N/A
"Allons à Lafayette (Let's go to Lafayette) was a clever two step Cajun dance number and was the first ever recording of Cajun music"
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Post by madmurray on Jan 9, 2021 20:54:50 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Trio Matamoros - Lagrimas Negras - 1928
WRITER: Miguel Matamoros PRODUCER: Uncredited LABEL: RCA ALBUM: N/A
"Lagrimas Negras (Black tears) a lovesick song written by Matamoros when he overheard a woman crying near the residence where he was staying while visiting Santo Domingo"
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Post by madmurray on Jan 9, 2021 21:10:20 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Ana Hato with Deane Waretini - Pokarekane - 1929
WRITER: Traditional arranged by Paraire Tomoana PRODUCER: Uncredited LABEL: Parlophone ALBUM: N/A
"A Maori Love song of disputed origins that has became New Zealand's unofficial National anthem"
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Post by madmurray on Jan 9, 2021 21:26:26 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five - St James Infirmary Blues
WRITER: Uncredited PRODUCER: Don Redman LABEL: Okeh ALBUM: N/A
"Based on an English Folk Song about a Sailor who spends money on prostitutes and dies of venereal disease in the St James Hospital, London. By the time Louis recorded it, the action shifted to America and related the tale to a man going to the hospital and finding his girlfriend dead".
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Post by madmurray on Jan 9, 2021 21:39:36 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Don Apiazu and His Havana Casino Orchestra - 1929
WRITER: Maisies Simons PRODUCER: Uncredited LABEL: RCA Victor ALBUM: N/A
"Ma-ni is the cry that opens the song that kicked off the "Rhumba craze" in the early 1930's"
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Post by madmurray on Jan 9, 2021 21:56:58 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - Minnie The Moocher - 1931
WRITER: Cab Calloway / Irving Mills PRODUCER: Uncredited LABEL: Brunswick ALBUM: N/A
"The tale of Minnie the Moocher, a good time girl who was rough and tough but a heart as big as a whale".
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Post by madmurray on Jan 9, 2021 22:08:07 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Bessie Smith - Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl - 1931
WRITER: Clarence Williams, J.T. Brymn & Dally Small PRODUCER: Frank Walker LABEL: Columbia ALBUM: N/A
"Smiths languorous performance on "need a little Sugar" makes it clear that this is a sensual woman with genuine needs and desires".
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Post by madmurray on Jan 9, 2021 22:24:14 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Bing Crosby - Brother Can You Spare a Dime - 1932
WRITER: Jay Gorney PRODUCER: Uncredited LABEL: Brunswick ALBUM: N/A
"Brother Can You Spare a Dime crystalizes those dark days after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 in the story of Everyman who had helped build the nations railroads and skyscrapers and fought its wars but was now reduced to panhandling in the streets"
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Post by o on Jan 9, 2021 22:56:28 GMT 1
I shall try and listen to these as I'm working from home through the week, I like a bit of Cajun and swing, not so convinced by the others so far.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 10, 2021 8:16:11 GMT 1
I got this book last year. I started making a playlist of it all, I figured it would be excellent to have on shuffle and I’d hear a lot of stuff I didn’t know already, but I got bored because the first 200 or so contained so much stuff I didn’t know. I should persevere with it really.
Of those you’ve posted so far, I do love Minnie The Moocher.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 10, 2021 9:15:07 GMT 1
They jump quite a bit already. No ragtime? No Rudy Vallee? None of the earliest cylinder recordings?
And missing out what might be the first-ever British million-seller - which in today's terms would be, I dunno, about 10 million plus a billion trillion streams...
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Post by madmurray on Jan 10, 2021 21:29:30 GMT 1
They jump quite a bit already. No ragtime? No Rudy Vallee? None of the earliest cylinder recordings?
And missing out what might be the first-ever British million-seller - which in today's terms would be, I dunno, about 10 million plus a billion trillion streams...
Totally agree with you, especially on this one.
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Post by madmurray on Jan 10, 2021 21:31:14 GMT 1
I got this book last year. I started making a playlist of it all, I figured it would be excellent to have on shuffle and I’d hear a lot of stuff I didn’t know already, but I got bored because the first 200 or so contained so much stuff I didn’t know. I should persevere with it really. Of those you’ve posted so far, I do love Minnie The Moocher. Yes, Cab Calloway is a cracker. Other one that stood out for me is the voice of Bessy Smith.
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Post by madmurray on Jan 10, 2021 21:38:10 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Lydia Mendoza - Mal Hombre - 1934
WRITER: Traditional, arranged by Lydia Mendoza PRODUCER: Eli Oberstein LABEL: Blue Bird ALBUM: N/A
"Mal Hombre (Bad Man) is the tale of a ruthless womanizer, which Lydia sung stridently, providing her own sturdy accompniment on twelve string guitar".
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Post by madmurray on Jan 10, 2021 21:45:42 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Sol Hooplii - Hula Girl - 1934
WRITER: Sunny Cunha PRODUCER: Uncredited LABEL: Brunswick ALBUM: N/A
"The bubbling "Hula Girl" finds Hoopii's genius at its finest: joyful, jazzy rhythms topped off by the fabulous excursions of his melodic expansive solos"
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Post by madmurray on Jan 10, 2021 21:56:53 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
The Carter Family - Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By) - 1935
WRITER: A.R. Habershon, C.H Gabriel, A.P.Carter PRODUCER: Ralph Peer LABEL: Okeh ALBUM: N/A
"Adapted from the hymn by A.R. Habershon , Can the Circle Be Unbroken finds a mournful son at his mothers funeral, imploring the undertaker to please drive slow, but A.P. Carter vocal tells another stoy of abandonment and fear that fuses love and loss"
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Post by madmurray on Jan 10, 2021 22:07:35 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues - 1936
WRITER: Robert Johnson PRODUCER: Don Law LABEL: Vocalion ALBUM: N/A
"Cross Road Blues has the choppy, rhythmic guitar sound and plaintive vocal that inspired todays rock heavyweights to build a career during the 1960s and 1970s".
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Post by madmurray on Jan 10, 2021 22:23:05 GMT 1
CHAPTER 1 - PRE 50's
Robert Johnson - Hellhound on My Trail - 19367
WRITER: Robert Johnson
PRODUCER: Don Law
LABEL: Vocalion
ALBUM: N/A
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