Your favorite music from 1929

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  1. Tord

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    Louis Armstrong - What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?

     
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    Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

     
  3. Elliottmarx

    Elliottmarx Always in the mood for Burt Bacharach

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    George and Ira Gershwin gifted the world with Embraceable You in 1929.
    One of the finest songs ever written.
     
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    Jimmie Rodgers - Waiting for a Train

     
  5. Fischman

    Fischman RockMonster, ClassicalMaster, and JazzMeister

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    Lonnie Johnson- Hot Fingers
    Blind Willie McTell - Travelin' Blues
    Blind Lemon Jefferson - That Crawling Baby Blues

    Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'
    Hoary Carmichael - Stardust
    Cole Porter - What is this Thing Called Love

    Arnold Bax - Symphony 3
    Henry Cowell - Piano Concerto
    Bohuslav Martinu - String Quartet 3
     
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  7. mwheelerk

    mwheelerk Sorry, I can't talk now, I'm listening to music...

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    There are a lot of these posts for music prior to 1950 and the truth is I have no releases in my library from before 1950. In truth I only have a few releases from 1950-1955. My interest is in the music first always but sound quality/technology is always important to me. Though I can appreciate the music prior to 1956 I do not like the sound technology prior to 1956 for my collection.
     
  8. White Raven

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    Of course you are right, but the noise and the imperfect of technologies are also an important part of the music sounding. Imagine, please, the artistic drawings and crafts of the people of the Middle Ages, for example, in historical museums: they can be restored by modern means so, that they will amaze everyone with their brilliance, but is this then their true value? Our view of the past will change, and so the thing can be distorted. Deception in such cases is the most terrible thing, because we can go down the wrong path and begin to interpret the history not as it was, but as we want.
     
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  10. mwheelerk

    mwheelerk Sorry, I can't talk now, I'm listening to music...

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    Good words and thoughts
     
  11. White Raven

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    Thank you, but don't praise me too much, or I'll go bad then:). To be honest, I want to answer you more fully. But I don't dare do it. I am absolutely not afraid, that there may be those who will come here only to show, that I am a stupid russian. (This happened here quite recently.) I am only concerned, that I may go somewhat beyond the scope of the proposed topic in my reasoning, and I would not like to break the rules and cause the fair discontent of the other participants in this topic. The only thing I would still like to add is that when we listen to a particular record, we should always understand theoretically whether it could have been made at that time better in quality than it sounds. If it could, but it was not done efficiently, only then our reproaches are absolutely fair.
     
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  15. tim_neely

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    "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" has an interesting history. The melody is said to be "traditional," thus it has been used in at least five different songs.

    The oldest is a 1925 ditty called "Thrills That I Can't Forget," sung by Welby Toomey, who also recorded under the name John Ferguson.

    Then came the Carter Family song.

    Next came "Great Speckle Bird," made famous by Roy Acuff in 1937.

    Then came "Wild Side of Life," which made Hank Thompson into a star in 1952.

    Finally, there was "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," which put Kitty Wells on the map in 1953.

    Some sources say the melody was used in Vernon Dalhart's ground-breaking 1924 hit "The Prisoner's Song," but though I hear similarities, I don't think it's part of the evolution.
     
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  17. jaypee65

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    Fat's Waller, Handful of Keys:

     
  18. ggergm

    ggergm another spring another baseball season

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    (What Did I Do To Be So) Black & Blue - Fats Waller

    It was for one of Fat's Waller's successful Broadway shows, Hot Chocolates. Beyond that, in what used to be called a "race record," it was a hit for both Louis Armstrong and Ethel Waters. I like both of their versions. Hers swings a bit more but his is more traditional. Both are up on YouTube. Upthread his was posted. Here's hers:

     
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    Johnny Hamp's Kenkucky Serenaders - "Blue Shadows"

     
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