Your favorite music from 1920?

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  1. Terrapin Station

    Terrapin Station Master Guns Thread Starter

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    Can be a single track, a 78 with multiple tracks, early albums (as in literal albums of 78s bound together), a classical piece, a later compilation focusing on the year . . . whatever.

    Doesn't have to be a list, though of course you can post a list if you want. You can also just post one title at a time as you think of it/run across it (which is what I do in these threads).




    (I'm going to eventually be doing one of these for every year from 1920 to 1963 (we already have threads for every year from 1964), and then for wider periods prior (decades, etc.) Of course, anyone else is free to start the others before I get to them, but just let me know if you do so we can avoid duplicates.)
     
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  2. Terrapin Station

    Terrapin Station Master Guns Thread Starter

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    Igor Stravinsky - Symphonies of Wind Instruments

     
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  3. John54

    John54 Senior Member

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    Both Robert Stolz's Salome and Albert Ketelbey's In a Persian Market were composed in 1920.
     
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  4. jbg

    jbg Senior Member

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  5. Platterpus

    Platterpus Senior Member

    Ragtime music
     
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  6. idleracer

    idleracer Forum Resident

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    :kilroy: 28 years later, this melody would be stolen for "Here Comes Santa Claus."

     
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  7. LeBon Bush

    LeBon Bush Hound of Love

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    Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opera Die tote Stadt.

    And Mamie Smith's rendition of Crazy Blues.
     
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  8. Pomotu

    Pomotu All The Way

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    My favorite sounds of the 20's and 30's are here on my Youtube channel

    Don Dan


     
  9. Steve Carras

    Steve Carras Golden Retriever

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    Darndeleela, Ben Selvin
    When my Baby smiles at me, Ted Lewis
    Whispering, Paul Whiteman
     
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  10. john hp

    john hp Forum Resident

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    Mamie Smith

     
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  11. Sear

    Sear Dad rocker

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    Louis Armstrong Hot 5 and 7
     
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  12. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Al Jolson
     
  13. john hp

    john hp Forum Resident

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    Marion Harris

     
  14. john hp

    john hp Forum Resident

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  15. john hp

    john hp Forum Resident

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    George Formby (Senior) (1875-1921)

     
  16. john hp

    john hp Forum Resident

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  17. john hp

    john hp Forum Resident

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    Bert Williams

     
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  18. elaterium

    elaterium Forum Resident

    Any number of pieces by Ives, Ruggles, Stravinsky, Varese, Webern, Schoenberg, Milhaud...
     
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  19. john hp

    john hp Forum Resident

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  20. willy

    willy hooga hagga hooga

    This is one of those threads that gives me goosebumps... wonderful stuff!!! :agree:
     
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  21. Colin M

    Colin M Forum Resident

    The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams
    December 1920

     
  22. Pomotu

    Pomotu All The Way

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    1929 - Coleman Hawkins @ The Mound City Blues Blowers

    "One Hour"

    It's history. First great jazz tenor sax solo



    Coleman Hawkins was the first important tenor saxophonist and he remains one of the greatest of all time. A consistently modern improviser whose knowledge of chords and harmonies was encyclopedic, Hawkins had a 40-year prime (1925-1965) during which he could hold his own with any competitor.

    Coleman Hawkins started piano lessons when he was five, switched to cello at age seven, and two years later began on tenor. At a time when the saxophone was considered a novelty instrument, used in vaudeville and as a poor substitute for the trombone in marching bands, Hawkins sought to develop his own sound. A professional when he was 12, Hawkins was playing in a Kansas City theater pit band in 1921, when Mamie Smith hired him to play with her Jazz Hounds. Hawkins was with the blues singer until June 1923, making many records in a background role and he was occasionally heard on instrumentals. After leaving Smith, he freelanced around New York, played briefly with Wilbur Sweatman, and in August 1923 made his first recordings with Fletcher Henderson. When Henderson formed a permanent orchestra in January 1924, Hawkins was his star tenor.

    Although (due largely to lack of competition) Coleman Hawkins was the top tenor in jazz in 1924, his staccato runs and use of slap-tonguing sound quite dated today. However, after Louis Armstrong joined Henderson later in the year, Hawkins learned from the cornetist’s relaxed legato style and advanced quickly. By 1925, Hawkins was truly a major soloist, and the following year his solo on “Stampede” became influential. Hawk (who doubled in early years on clarinet and bass sax) would be with Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra up to 1934, and during this time he was the obvious pacesetter among tenors; Bud Freeman was about the only tenor who did not sound like a close relative of the hard-toned Hawkins. In addition to his solos with Henderson, Hawkins backed some blues singers, recorded with McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, and, with Red McKenzie in 1929, he cut his first classic ballad statement on “One Hour.”
     
  23. DmitriKaramazov

    DmitriKaramazov Senior Member

    Thanks John!

    While I’m a fan of George Formby, I have to admit I’d had no idea that there was a George Formby SENIOR who himself was a performer!!!
     
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  24. Mr-Beagle

    Mr-Beagle Ah, but the song carries on, so holy

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    Maurice Ravel - Sonate In A Minor
     
  25. Terrapin Station

    Terrapin Station Master Guns Thread Starter

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    Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra - "Alexandria" / "Oriental Stars" [Victor 18673]



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