Your favorite music from 1926

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).

 

Frank Hutchison - "Worried Blues" / "The Train That Carried the Girl from Town"

Note that the initial catalog number for this, from 1926, was 45064, not 45114. The later issue (from 1927) may have flipped the A and B sides. As far as I can tell the 1927 issue wasn't a rerecording (though of course that wasn't unusual during the era).

 

'Sail Away Lady' - "Uncle Bunt" Stephens


78 Record: "Uncle Bunt" Stephens - Louisburg Blues (1926)
Cover versions of Sail Away Lady by "Uncle Bunt" Stephens | SecondHandSongs

 

Al Jolson - Sitting on Top of The World

 

'White House Blues' - Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers


Posey Rorer - fiddle
78 Record: Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Monkey On A String (1926)
Cover versions of White House Blues written by [Traditional] | SecondHandSongs

 

Jack O Diamond Blues⸻Blind Lemon Jefferson

 

Baby you Don't Know my Mind⸻Lonnie Johnson [Alonzo Johnson]

 

Black Horse Blues⸻Blind Lemon Jefferson

 

Here's Jesse Thomas in 1951 covering the song recorded in 1926 by Blind Lemon Jefferson
Jack O Diamond Blues

 

Hands down, Puccini's TURANDOT.

Unfinished at the time of his death in 1924 , the opera premiered on April 25, 1926 with an ending composed by another composer (based on Puccini's work and sketches). Above is a contemporaneous recording of one of Liu's arias by Maria Zamboni, who created the role on stage.

 

A while ago I was inspired by John Peel's Peelenium and decided to make one of my own with one song each from 1900-2000... Naturally I had little frame of reference for much >20s music (sort of why I started the project) and found this one while browsing Acclaimed Music for ideas:

Pawlo Humeniuk - (Dance Under The Willows)



It's pretty good, though I'm not sure how I ever would have found it otherwise or if anyone even heard it at the time.

 

One of my favourite songs, any year, and this first 1926 version is my absolute fav version. Apparently, this was a fav of William Burroughs as well.

East St. Louis Toodle-oo - Duke Ellington

 

Bessie Smith


https://www.discogs.com/Bessie-Smith-The-Gin-House-Blues-Lost-Your-Head-Blues/release/11423392
Columbia matrix W142149. Lost your head blues / Bessie Smith - Discography of American Historical Recordings

 

Bartok's piano sonata. If the second movement (starting about 4:40) doesn't freeze your blood, I don't know what would. Whatever, it's gorgeous.

 

'Where we'll never grow old'


78 Record: Smith's Sacred Singers - Pictures From Life's Other Side (1926)
Cover versions of Where We'll Never Grow Old written by James C. Moore | SecondHandSongs

 

Bessie Smith and her Blue Boys (Joe Smith - cornet, Buster Bailey - clarinet, Fletcher Henderson - piano) - Young Woman's Blues

 

Sol Hoopii's Novelty Trio


'Stack O'Lee Blues'
78 Record: Sol Hoopii's Novelty Trio - Farewell Blues (1926)

 

Blind Blake


78 Record: Blind Blake - Early Morning Blues (1926)
Illustrated Blind Blake discography

 

(Papa) Charlie Jackson


(YT posting starts at 0:15)
78 Record: Charlie Jackson - I'm Going Where The Chilly Winds Don't Blow (1926)
Illustrated Papa Charlie Jackson discography

 

Bertha "Chippie" Hill


'Georgia Man' accomp. Richard M. Jones; Louis Armstrong
78 Record: Bertha "Chippie" Hill - Trouble In Mind (1926)

 

Bo Weavil Jackson aka Sam Butler


78 Record: Bo Weavil Jackson - You Can't Keep No Brown (1926)
Illustrated Bo Weavil Jackson / Sam Butler discography

 

Ma Rainey with her Georgia Jazz Band


https://www.discogs.com/Ma-Rainey-W...-Blues-Yonder-Comes-The-Blues/release/4862529
Cover versions of Yonder Come the Blues written by Ma Rainey | SecondHandSongs

 

Classical music premiered/written in 1926:

• The Miraculous Mandarin (Bartok)

• Out of Doors (Bartok)
  
  
• 3 Village Scenes (Bartok)
  
  
• Piano Concerto (Copland)
  
  
• Harpsichord Concerto (Falla)
  
  
• Cardillac (Hindemith)
  
  
• Concertino for piano and orchestra (Janacek)
  
  
• The Makropulos Case (Janacek)
  
  
• Sinfonietta (Janacek)
  
  
• Hary Janos (Kodaly)
  
  
• Orpheus und Eurydike (Krenek)
  
  
• Le Carnaval d’Aix (Milhaud)
  
  
• Les Malheurs d’Orphée (Milhaud)
  
  
• Chansons Gaillardes (Poulenc)
  
  
• Turandot (Puccini)
  
  
• Chansons Madécasses (Ravel)
  
  
• Three Satires, op. 28 (Schoenberg)
  
  
• Die Jakobsleiter (Schoenberg)
  
  
• Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  
  
• Tapiola (Sibelius)
  
  
• Otche Nash' (Stravinsky)
  
  
• King Roger (Szymanowski)
  
  
• Amériques (Varese)
  
  
• 3 Songs, Op. 18 (Webern)

Lotsa goodies in there.

 

Gid Tanner and his Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett


78 Record: Gid Tanner And His Skillet-Lickers With Riley Puckett - Ya Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Aroun' (1926)
Cover versions of They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg Aroun' written by Cy Perkins, Webb M. Oungst | SecondHandSongs