Annette Hanshaw and other 1920s jazz-pop vocalists

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I've been listening to nothing but Annette lately. Is anyone else here remotely interested in/knowledgeable about this kind of music?

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 17 April 2006 07:39 (twenty years ago)

i've been playing a lot of english dance band stuff from this time, (well, also the 30s). stuff recorded with either ambrose & his orchestra, ray noble, or jack hylton, is a good place to start, for this. elsie carlisle is a lot of fun, irreverant, perhaps cutesy vocal style. al bowlly, you will probably know from the shining (those 2 tracks were with ray noble), a great ghostly quality which seems to come back again and again

of course, a lot of the popular vocal music in america at this time was actually hawaiian themed, hapa haole stuff (bing and louis, amongst others, performed, hawaiian themed stuff) - actually check louis armstrongs 1937 work with andy iona, maybe a bit late for your time frame. sol hoopii and andy iona, are the big two for this kind of stuff. andy iona is a giant, as far as i am concerned. cumquat records in australia have reissued reems of this stuff.

i guess paul whiteman would be important here, as anything to do with the 20s must be. i dunno what the critical opinion of whiteman is (or any of this stuff really, i think 'considered' opinion of all this stuff, still says 'trite'). paul specht's 'thats what i call sweet music' is great too. its definitely cocaine music!

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 17 April 2006 08:09 (twenty years ago)

I read an interview with one of the d00ds from Belle & Sebastian where he claimed to be listening to a lot of 20's british dance band music, he mentioned there's a label that's cranking out tons of reissues of that kind, proceeding alphabetically, at cheap prices. Didn't name the label, tho. :(

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, I've been wanting to get more into English dance band music, do you have any suggestions for good compilations?

I've found that most of these are quite variable...

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Awww, this thread is going to die quietly.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

In answer to the original question, I dig what I've heard by Lee Wiley.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:34 (twenty years ago)

the Vocalion label is yr one-stop shop for classic dance band discs:

http://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/products.asp?cat=373

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 07:04 (twenty years ago)

The Pennies from Heaven soundtrack is as good a primer as any, unfortunately it's out of print and goes for £20 or £30 on ebay.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 07:50 (twenty years ago)

well heres annette hanshaw's myspace page(!)

http://www.myspace.com/thepersonalitygirl

i wonder, if elsie carlisle has one...

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:20 (twenty years ago)

This is a cool comp, pretty readily available though it's out of print:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000028RL/sr=1-2/qid=1146094096/ref=sr_1_2/002-1691997-7987205?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=music

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

i'm throwing together some 20s music for a little gatsby-themed solstice get-together with some friends, and i've been wondering: how contemporary would the popular/functional music of the time have been? i've been eyeing some classics of european modernist art music, but a lot of that wasn't exactly reaching a lot of ears. and nowadays we regularly listen to 50-year-old music without batting an eye, so i don't see why to expect listeners at the time to have been tossing out their schubert piano scores or whatever just because bing crosby was burning up the charts. but i don't know really.

― j., Wednesday, 17 June 2015 22:55 (ten years ago)

on the other side of the question, since radio and phonographic recordings were such novelties then, i would kind of expect a great wave of enthusiasm for ~the new~ wherever it could be had

― j., Wednesday, 17 June 2015 23:03 (ten years ago)

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