Your favorite music from 1924

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).

 

Lewis James - "The Pal That I Loved Stole the Gal That I Loved" / "The Ten Commandments of Love" [Victor 19473]

James had an unusual number of "Pal" songs.

 

Here's the flipside:

 

Madame "Ma" Rainey with Lovie Austin and her Blues Serenaders


78 Record: Madame "Ma" Rainey - Moonshine Blues (1924)

 

The Brox Sisters - Red Hot Mama

First heard it on a compilation called "Flappers, Vamps And Sweet Young Things" which has a lot of other great songs that sound similar.

 

That Gershwin guy wrote a catchy little piano piece in 1924 - “Rhapsody in Blue”

 

Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet together with Alberta Hunter.

 

Gabriel Fauré's String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 121 was his very last composition. Completed in 1924, he died shortly after, leaving behind a glorious final piece of music:

 

On the other hand, Aaron Copland was just getting into his stride with his first fully realized work for orchestra. Here is his Symphony for Organ and Orchestra:

 

Jean Sibelius completed his final, 7th, Symphony in 1924, notable for having only one movement. Check out the great video:

 

Another 1924 masterpiece is Ottorino Respighi's "I Pini di Roma" (Pines of Rome), a trilogy of tone poems inspired by three different pines in Rome at different times of the day:

 

I Never Knew What the Blues Were (Until you Went Away)⸻Virginia Liston

 

One cannot talk about 1924 without discussing Bessie Smith and her easy come and easy go blues.

 

What a trip! I couldn't find this on discogs.

 

anything Al Jolson

 

Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Everybody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Don't Love Nobody But Me)

 

Ma Rainey - See See Rider Blues

 

Cliff Edwards - Somebody Loves Me

 

"Blue Ridge Blues" by George Reneau, later covered by dozens of bluegrass and country artists.

The artist is of particular interest to me, as I've got Reneau ancestors, making George my 6th cousin or something.

 

Sara Martin


'I've got to leave my daddy behind'; w. Sylvester Weaver
78 Record: Sara Martin - Roamin' Blues (1924)
Illustrated Sylvester Weaver discography

 

'I'm Nine Hundred Miles from my Home' - Fiddlin' John Carson


first recording of traditional song later adapted as '500 Miles'
78 Record: Fiddlin' John Carson - I'm Nine Hundred Miles From Home (1924)
Cover versions of I'm Nine Hundred Miles from Home by Fiddlin' John Carson | SecondHandSongs

 

(Papa) Charlie Jackson


78 Record: Charlie Jackson - Salt Lake City Blues (1924)
Illustrated Papa Charlie Jackson discography

 

'John Hardy' - Eva Davis


Cover versions of John Hardy written by [Traditional] | SecondHandSongs

b/w 'Cindy in the Meadows' - Samantha Bumgarner (vocal & violin) & Eva Davis (banjo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyJaYp3rstg&ab_channel=trinovantian61trinovantian61
78 Record: Samantha Bumgarner And Eva Davis - Cindy In The Meadows (1924)
Illustrated Samantha Bumgarner discography

 

Lottie Beaman (aka Lottie Kimbrough)


'Regular Man Blues'
https://bluesimages.com/museum-78s/...unt-12235-a-Lottie-Beaman-Mama-Cant-Lose.html
Illustrated Lottie Beaman/Kimbrough discography

 

This past weekend a cousin asked me to send him rattlesnake rattles should I ever obtain any so he can put them inside his fiddle the way the oldtimers did.