Join: Mar 8, 2007
Name: Somerset45
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Videos (15)
Red Nichols - My Gal Sal
- Length: 3:12
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 4 people
- View Count: 199
- Author: Somerset45
Tags: 1920s 78RPM 78s era Gal jazz My Nichols Red Sal silent
Silent Sweethearts to the music of My Gal Sal recorded May 1927 in New York. Ernie "Red" Nichols was born in Utah in 1905 and studied music under the tutelage of his father. Red recorded in at least 14 groups and appeared in almost 4000 records in the 1920s. This session was recorded under the...
Jelly Roll Morton - Dr. Jazz
- Length: 3:26
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 3 people
- View Count: 136
- Author: Somerset45
Tags: 78RPM 78s Dr Jazz Jelly Morton Roll
The sixth of the "Hot Style" jazz pieces presented on this channel was recorded by Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers. The band, made up mostly of musicians from Lil Hardin Armstrong's disbanded DreamLand Syncopaters, cut this record in Chicago in December 1926 on the Victor label-also...
Josephine Baker-Then I'll Be Happy
- Length: 2:42
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 3 people
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- Author: Somerset45
Tags: 1920s 78RPM 78s Baker Be Happy I'll Jazz Josephine Then
Freda Josephine McDonald aka Josephine Baker danced into this world in 1906 in St. Louis. As young as age 10 she worked as a nanny and housegirl and by 14 was on the TOBA circuit as a comic. Before her more sophisticated recordings with the Jazz du Casino de Paris Orchestra in the 30s, she cut...
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Kaplan's Melodists - Love Tales
- Length: 3:33
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 5 people
- View Count: 100
- Author: kspm01
Tags: Kaplan's Love Melodists Tales
Bandleader and arranger Dave Kaplan wrote arrangements for the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra in 1917. He led his own group known as Kaplan's Melodists and was also the piano accompanist for the extremely popular duo of Ernest Hare and Billy Jones, otherwise known as the Happiness Boys. He regularly...
Phil Baxter & His Orchestra - Honey Child
- Length: 3:35
- Rating Average: 4.57 from 7 people
- View Count: 223
- Author: kspm01
Tags: 78RPM Baxter Child Honey Orchestra Phil
This territory band (also credited sometimes as Phil Baxter & His Texas Tommies when playing with a smaller outfit as indicated on the picture) was popular in the Southwest of the United States, and led by Phil Baxter, a talented bandleader, composer, vocalist and arranger. This great record was...
Armstrong & Russell - Song Of the Islands (new copy)
- Length: 3:30
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 4 people
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- Author: kspm01
Tags: 78RPM Armstrong Islands Louis Luis Of Orchestra Russell Song The
This is a new copy of my previous post: "Luis Russell & His Orchestra - Song Of The Isands". Additional research (partly courtesy of merrihew whom I most grateful) and the comments left at that post lead to the conclusion that references tend to credit Louis Armstrong & "His" Orchestra, although...
