What's the *oldest* recorded music you actually enjoy listening to.

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  1. JerolW

    JerolW Senior Member

    1938 - Benny Goodman - Carnegie Hall

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  2. vanhooserd

    vanhooserd Senior Member

    Location:
    Nashville,TN
    The dividing line for me is the beginning of electrical recording in 1925. I have done very little listening to acoustic recordings.
     
  3. Fender Relic

    Fender Relic Forum Resident

    Location:
    PennsylBama
    I like Peg and Awl too and have one of the Harry Smith Anthology volumes with that song. My dad had a bunch of old 78's and I still have a few like Cliff Carlisle, Columbus Stockade/Dirty Old Mama, or maybe, My Two Timin' Mama. Dad used to sing that all the time when we were in the car or around the house.

    Mama,Mama, dirty old Mama why do you make me so blue?
    You had another Daddy and that's why I'm leavin you (yes I am)
    I was your Daddy but you wouldn't stay home
    You just wouldn't leave other Daddys alone
    Yo de lady de lady o lady

    I have a bunch of others like Jimmie Rodgers,Carter Family,Hank Williams
     
  4. Veltri

    Veltri ♪♫♫♪♪♫♫♪

    Location:
    Canada
    My favourite interpreter of Schubert is Artur Schnabel and he has recordings going back to 1932.
     
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  5. JoeF.

    JoeF. Forum Resident

    Location:
    New Jersey, USA
    Probably rhythm and blues from the late 4o's.
     
  6. ZenArcher

    ZenArcher Senior Member

    Location:
    Durham, NC
    Maybe Jelly Roll Morton's recordings from the mid-1920s. Very sophisticated and completely enjoyable. He was a genius.
     
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  7. segue

    segue Psychoacoustic Member

    Location:
    Hawai'i
    My Morning Jacket "It Still Moves"
     
  8. Hey Vinyl Man

    Hey Vinyl Man Another bloody Yank down under...

    Definitely Bessie Smith, by far my favorite pre-war artist.
     
  9. DirkGentlyUK

    DirkGentlyUK Forum Resident

    Location:
    London
    I enjoy some Buddy Holly on occassion.
     
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  10. Fullbug

    Fullbug Forum Resident

    Location:
    Seattle
    Duke Ellington or Robert Johnson.
     
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  11. mike's beard

    mike's beard Forum Resident

    Location:
    UK
    The 1930s. Stuff like Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and The Andrews Sisters.
     
  12. Zoot Marimba

    Zoot Marimba And I’m The Critic Of The Group

    Location:
    Savannah, Georgia
    Mainly 50s, with some occasional previous stuff.
     
  13. GodBlessTinyTim

    GodBlessTinyTim Forum Resident

    Location:
    Ontario, Canada
    Country and blues from the late 20's. Jimmie Rodgers, Charley Patton, Mississippi John Hurt, and so on. With regards to country from that period I'm more interested in the bluesy stuff about two-timin' streamlined gals and true-blue papas than the old-time Appalachian folk traditions.
     
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  14. Zach Johnson

    Zach Johnson Forum Resident

    Location:
    Toronto, Ontario
    Miles Davis' Quintet recordings are as far back as I go at this point.
     
  15. claudecat

    claudecat Tax the rich! (sorry George)

    Location:
    Rural America
    I've always been a big fan of 1920's blues (and jazz, hillbilly, etc.) stars, especially my personal guitar hero Blind Blake (my daughter's middle name is Blake) and Charley Patton. Lots of great great music from this era if you can listen past the audio shortcomings. Hearing original 78's on a well tuned and maintained system can be revelatory.

    But even further back there is music that's not without its charms. I don't listen to this kind of thing regularly, but it's definitely interesting to me as a student of American musical forms. George W. Johnson was the biggest selling artist of the 1890's, especially his "Laughing Song". I like this one better, despite the poor fidelity and racial backwardness:

     
  16. bosskeenneat

    bosskeenneat Forum Resident

    I've picked up a small stack of Bing Crosby's material over the years from thrifts & store cheapo bins, and find his non-Christmas material is given short shrift. The pre-Rock 50's had its gems that shouldn't be dismissed outright either, like Teresa Brewer, Joni James, McGuire Sisters and Les & Mary. Eartha Kitt, Pearl Bailey, & Ruth "Davy's Dinghy" Wallis all deserve mention too.
     
  17. CrimsonPiper

    CrimsonPiper Forum Resident

    Location:
    Los Angeles
    Django Reinhardt - all the way back to 1930s recordings.
     
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  18. Elton

    Elton I Hope Being Helpful, Will Make Me Look Cool

    Location:
    Carson Ca.
    [​IMG]This has older stuff that I listen to (a great set).
    But, mostly I listen to Duke Ellington, Robert Johnson, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra. So, some 20's through the 50's before I get to what I call "my music".
     
  19. CupOfDreams

    CupOfDreams Forum Resident

    I listen to a lot of old blues from the 20s & 30s.
     
  20. The Killer

    The Killer Dung Heap Rooster

    Location:
    The Cotswolds
    Although I've got some 1920 - 30s stuff earliest everyday listening era is 1950s country and rock n roll.
     
  21. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    The Boswell Sisters from the 1930s. Nobody has ever duplicated their amazing close vocal harmonies.

     
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  22. Wild Ram Speedway

    Wild Ram Speedway Forum Resident

    The Ink Spots (1934-1954), a beautiful vocal group with a brilliant tenor vocalist - Bill Kenny.

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  23. Munros1969

    Munros1969 Forum Resident

    Location:
    UK
    Charlie Christian 1939'ish...

     
  24. Andy Smith

    Andy Smith .....Like a good pinch of snuff......

    This, I guess. Easily one of the best things the BBC have ever produced. A million miles away from my usual pick of the Glam-gods or the Punk era. Not me at all, yet everything here worked so well within the program's overall tone. The series was aired in the 80s, yet I'm still playing - and loving - the soundtrack featuring music from the 40s. (Ignore the film. That was just rubbish. Too crammed and badly cast).

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  25. Jack o' the Shadows

    Jack o' the Shadows Live and Dubious

    Location:
    Bergen, Norway
    About the turn of the twentieth Century with stuff like Billy Murray, Emry Arthur, The Gentry Brothers, etc.
     
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