Annette Hanshaw - Am I Blue-1929 video free download


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Uploaded: 2009/01/26

Annette Hanshaw sings Am I Blue from the from the motion picture On With The Show which featured Ethel Waters, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown and Arthur Lake. The film was the first sound motion picture filmed in color although only black and white copies survive. The film had been adapted from the musical The Broadway Melody. Annette recorded her version May 31, 1929 in New York on the Harmony, Diva, Puritone and Velvetone labels.

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9 years ago

jay d

Not sure I can thank you enough for introducing this great talent to me. Have loved this sort of music and the era that produced it since boyhood, and that was many, many yes ago. That era was my mom's generation but I somehow took to it like it was my own. So, the surprise and the wonder of it is, why oh why and how was it possible for me to have never heard this wonderful and lovable looking talented lady before YouTube? I'm indebted and happy to. Be.Thank You again.

9 years ago

thePlayer787

Only batman could do it better.

9 years ago

Roger Levy

Why does Annette say "bad dog" at the end of this & You're the Cream in my Coffee?

9 years ago

David Glowacki

Love that trumpet behind the vocals

9 years ago

Janette Walker

Blue fades when you listen to Annette.

9 years ago

Om1n0uzOmar

Didn't Batman sing this in that justice league episode to save Wonder Woman?

9 years ago

Amandine Caras

Nice music ;)

9 years ago

Micelli1947

Good old time music. Thanks for the post.

9 years ago

CoolhandLukeSkywalkr

I'm sitting here feeling wistful and forlorn, listening to music from the 1920's. Not chatting with anyone else. nobody is around. just listening to Annette Hanshaw. I've had a rough go lately in my love life, and my work life, it's been rough. That's always my situation. I'll tell you one thing, at least I'm used to having a rough go of it.

9 years ago

Ian Peden

I've been playing this for quite some time and have only just discovered it has a verse, and a good one at that!

10 years ago

Bettina Binks

Dear preservationhall01, I found your channel through Tom Smith's upload of Annette Hanshaw singing "I'm Following You". Thank you for uploading this! By the way, I really like the montage you've made for this song. I'm sure I'll love many of your other uploads too. Fondest regards, Bettina

11 years ago

preservationhall01

Something like that.

11 years ago

19XWyomingGrizFan

O.K. So Puritone isn't the same as Puretone that came out of Bridgeport, Conn 1923-25,owned by the Bridgeport Die and Machine Co. pressed in red shellac, then. Ownerships seem to me to be rather confusing what with what I've heard that Pathé, started out in Paris in 1894. Bought by the American Record Co.; ARC a merger of Regal, Cameo and Banner Labels about 1928. From 1920 onwards Pathé Actuelle did 78 rpm until the English Columbia bought it out in Dec 1928; the US holdings bought by the ARC?

11 years ago

preservationhall01

Puritone was a Pathe label. Annette's husband originally worked for Pathe in the 1920s. I think Puritone was used to re-release previously recorded works from the old master recordings. I think (not sure) that Columbia bought Pathe. The Diva~Velvet Tone~Harmony labels were cheap Columbia labels. The NY Recording Labs of Arthur Fields also had a Puretone label amongst its 16 labels including Paramount, Banner & Grey Gull. Thanks for your comment!

11 years ago

19XWyomingGrizFan

I know about the Track appearing on the Diva Label (2940-G) and the Velvet Tone Label (1940-V); as well as on the Harmony Label (940-H) under the name 'Gay Ellis.' But I don't know anything about a puritone Label. Do you mean Melotone? Flip side beng "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home."

11 years ago

Stuart Goldbarg

People who believe the myth of the good old days never lived in them. Thugs used to leaflet towns advertising eyes blackened for 50c, legs broke for $2, and killing $10. Herman Mudgett and Earl Nelson murdered people across the US and Canada. Carl Panzram murdered at least 40 people on 2 continents, and Albert Fish ate children and wrote the parents about the dining experience. That said, almost all modern music is trash.

11 years ago

preservationhall01

Well youll have more fun in life not worrying about eveything in the world for sure. Thanks for your comment!!

11 years ago

Teri Wells

I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT POLITICS . CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT ANYWAY BUT I HAD A BALL LISTENING TO THIS. THANK YOU WHOEVER PUT IT UP OF ON OR DOWN . SIGNED DUMB COVENT EDUCATED GIRL

11 years ago

Michael Norton

I graduated from college in 1963. The class of 1964 was a little different, but the big change was with the class of 1965 (which, by the way, includes my dear wife!).

11 years ago

Michael Norton

True -- Edwardian sensibilities were quite upset with the goings-on of the '20s and 30s. But the Edwardian crowd shocked Victorians, too. Not for their activities, for there was nothing new going on, really, but for their lack of discretion.

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