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Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra -- Georgia, Fox-trot (W. Donaldson), Victor 1922 (USA; accoustic recording)

NOTE: There's one thing, I can do at any time of night or day: it's listening to Paul Whiteman's accousticals from early 1920s. It was, ofcourse, first of all Whiteman's genius, but also the freshness and energy of the youth, that made those recordings so dymanic and so inventive in all their arrangement and fantastic orchestration. Fox-trot "Georgia" -- little known despite the fact, it was Walter Donaldson's composition - is no exception here. I like every second of this tune and to make it really remarkable and remembered by you, I ransacked my archives to complete -- instead of one more array of all those coquettishly smiling flappers -- some more unusal collection of photos of the sound transmitters from early 1920s.

See also my new clip at Dailymotion: Fletcher Henderson's Band in „Sorry", 1927 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xomc27_1920s-jazz-fletcher-henderson-s-collegians-sorry-1927_music

Comentarios

12 years ago

1920sbuff

Delightful and uplifting!

12 years ago

240252

@MsDobrita Thank you :-)

12 years ago

240252

@6dBperOctave How interesting! In my ignorance I thought, he played sax or some other kind of brass. Thank you :-)

12 years ago

6dBperOctave

In the acoustic recording studio (at 1'42") the violinist on the right is playing a Stroh violin; one fitted with a resonating metal horn to amplify the sound and project it in the required direction.

12 years ago

240252

@VictrolaJazz Yes, especially that Vicor had absolutely magnificent sound engineers in that time! The sound quality of these accoustic sides is often quite hard to distinguish from electricals.

12 years ago

240252

@OrodesIII Thank you and take care!

12 years ago

240252

@Trombonology See my note to Barbcard about how the lampograph works :-)) My Mum who in the Charleston era was a very juvenile kind of a flapper (when Whiteman's "The Charleston" was reaching its first 100.000 sold copies she was in her 14th year) preferred the Thirties with their "restrained elegance", as she called them. She said, in the Roaring Twenties the horrors of the 1st WW were still around in peoples' souls. That's why they tried to relieve them in charleston and craze.

12 years ago

240252

@barbcard I have last two still in store and I'll keep one for you until next time you are back here. They play excellent music and give a nice dim light to the tangoes, which gets brighter and sometimes even flickering with colors when charlestons or shimmies are played!

12 years ago

240252

@neilkcoker Thank you, I'm glad that you liked it :-)

12 years ago

240252

@heinbanjo12 Hi Hein, especially for you I traced the divine sounds of banjo in this recording, however this time its occurrence is not so frequent.. Next time, it will be better :-)

12 years ago

OrodesIII

great photos too

12 years ago

Hein Overbeek

Thank you for this beautiful recording. Hein

12 years ago

VictrolaJazz

These early Whiteman records are all wonderful!

12 years ago

barbcard

Cheerful and sprightly. Please send me a lampograph at once; I've got just the place for it in my nostalgia corner. I agree with Trombonology: the 20's seem very desirable in retrospect. Of course, what followed in the next decade I need not mention.

12 years ago

MsDobrita

I love it!

12 years ago

Trombonology Erstwhile

Wonderful recording! I, too, am a great admirer of both Paul Whiteman's Orchestra and Walter Donaldson's compositions. The combination makes the fun of the '20's still clearer -- as do your well-chosen images. I am quite fascinated by the Lampograph @ 1:08, which of course anticipated a trend we observe today in which everything must have multiple functions as well as be decorative. Despite the technological advances since the Jazz Age, I suspect I would have preferred that time.

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