Musical Holocron

I wanted to take a moment and post an explanation about the last 20 posts to this site. Foldedspace.org has a post from 2006/06/30 where the blogger/author shares some great songs from before the Age of Jazz.

The best way to introduce this music is probably to offer the entire 1991 RCA collection called Nipper's Greatest Hits: 1901-1920. This disc is long out-of-print. It sells for $190 on Amazon.

Here are my local pages about each song.

• I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles - Ben Selvin and His Novelty Orchestra [mp3]
• A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody - John Steel [mp3]
• After You've Gone - Marion Harris [mp3]
• Over There - Enrico Caruso [mp3]
• Tiger Rag - The Original Dixieland Jass Band [mp3]
• Smiles and Chuckles - The Six Brown Brothers [mp3]
• It's a Long Way to Tipperary - John McCormack [mp3]
• Carry Me Back to Old Virginny - Alma Gluck [mp3]
• That Haunting Melody - Al Jolson [mp3]
• Life's a Funny Proposition After All - George M. Cohan [mp3]
• Mister Moon Man, Turn Off the Light - Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes [mp3]
• Come Josephine In My Flying Machine - Ada Jones and Billy Murray with The American Quartet [mp3]
• Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? - Nora Bayes [mp3]
• I've Got Rings on My Fingers (Bells on my Toes) - Blanche Ring [mp3]
• The Yama Yama Man - Ada Jones [mp3]
• In My Merry Oldsmobile - Billy Murray [mp3]
• Shine on Harvest Moon - Miss Walton and Mister MacDonough [mp3]
• The Arkansas Traveler - Len Spencer [mp3]
• Grand Old Rag - Billy Murray [mp3]
• In the Good Old Summertime, performed by John Philip Sousa's Band [mp3]

To learn more, read foldedspace.org.

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Labels: genre/oldies, history

# posted by ArcoJedi : 00:15