Your favorite music from 1929

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).

 

Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins - "Snatch It and Grab It" / "A Rag Blues"

 

Mississippi John Hurt


https://www.discogs.com/Mississippi-John-Hurt-Stack-OLee-Blues-Candy-Man-Blues/release/4831681

 

“Tip toe Thru' the Tulips With Me”⸻Annette Hanshaw


* link replaced, mastering upgraded

 

'29 was a great year, though I can't come up with anything off the top of my head. I'm thinking of Bing Crosby & the Rhythm Boys, Paul Whiteman, Boswell Sisters, the rise of "hotel orchestras," etc. I collect tunes from around '29 to about '33--that's the sweet spot, imho, before music started to morph into the big band sound.

 

so right!

 

Garfield Akers, Cottonfield Blues- listen to that guitar attack (second guitar Joe Callicott)

 

Blind Willie McTell, Statesboro Blues

 

“Two Tone Stomp”⸻Lonnie Johnson

better uplink

 

“Jet Black Blues”⸻Blind Willie Dunn's Gin Bottle Four

 

“Six or Seven Times”⸻The Little Chocolate Dandies


what a year.
.. me Da turned 1 y.o., right into the Great Depression. the height of rebellion against what was, incredulously, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (!) and rum-running, it was all going horribly wrong. Music was in a very magical place though, rather unsurprisingly when one considers Prohibition's unintended effect of bringing about something of a 2Oth-century version of a return to a “Wild Wild West” culture to urban America. And how Hollywood and American society would glamorise and aurify─even romanticize─that underworld and counterculture. but I digress.

 

Keep 'em coming....I like most of it.

PS: Am I the only one to hear Sittin' on Top of the World in Jet Black Blues?

 

Bix

 

John McCormack - Little Pal

 

John McCormack - Norah O'Neal

 

Fats Waller's piano solos.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FmVvB8s1A1Q

and all of his music!

 

Carter Family

 

My favorite Annette Hanshaw tune:

 

Maurice Chevalier - Louise

 

Louis Armstrong, "Basin Street Blues"

Recorded in December 1928, released May 1929

 

Cliff Edwards - Singin' in the Rain