Friday, April 07, 2017

"Springtime Ragtime, Big Time" April 7, 2017

(Week 455)

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Discographical information for certain selections below (particularly those on the Victor and Columbia labels) may be found using this excellent site: Discography of American Historical Recordings.

Mike Bernard - Fantasy On Mendelssohn's Spring Song and Rubenstein's Melody in F (1912) - Columbia A1276
Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers - Maple Leaf Rag (1932) - HMV B 9408
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
Paul Whiteman and his Orch - Manhattan (1925) - Victor 19769 B
Coon Sanders Orch (C. A. Coon v) - Too Busy (1928) - Victor 21546 A
Dixie Jazz Band (Original Indiana Five) - Moten Stomp (1928) - Oriole 1172 [ToNY]
Harold Yates Cooper Lawley - Highways Are Happy Ways (1927) - Victor 20907 A
Charles Dickson (Irving Kaufman) - Skies of Gray (1927) - Jewel 5135 B
Annette Hanshaw and her Sizzling Syncopaters - I Just Roll Along (1928) - Perfect 12419 B
Frank Westphal and his Orch - Railroad Man (1923) - Oh! Sister, Ain't That Hot! (Rivermont BSW 1158)
Ted Weems and his Orch - Traveling Blues (1924) - Victor 19496 A
Johnny Sylvester Orch - King Porter Stomp (1925) - Perfect 14392 [ToNY]
Billy Murray - I Love to Stay at Home (1915) - Victor 17855A
Criterion Quartet - Life's Railway To Heaven (1925) - Brunswick 2931 B
Carolina Club Orch (Arthur Fields v) - Dream Train (1929) - Diva 2844 G
Richard Dowling - Wall Street Rag (2015) - Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin (Rivermont BSW 2240)
Richard Dowling - Gladiolus Rag (2015) - Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin (Rivermont BSW 2240)
Frosini - New York Blues (Rag Classical) (1918) - Edison 50454
Wm Eckstein - Coaxing The Piano (1923) - Silvertone 1250 B (orig Pathe)
Earl Rickard - I'm a Homesick Rolling Stone (1924) - Okeh 40305 B
George Olsen and his Music (Fran Frey v) - Big City Blues (1929) - Victor 21961 B
Tiny Parham and his Musicians - Subway Sobs (1929) - Victor V 38041 A
Hal Kemp and his Orch (Skinny Ennis v) - Whistles (1931) - The Hot Sides 1926-1931 (Retrieval RTR 79025)
Mildred Hunt - Ho Hum (1931) - Romeo 78 (courtesy Rich Conaty)
Gerry Fitz-Gerald - It's Home (1934) - Regal Zono MR 1553
Sophie Tucker - Stay At Home Papa (1934) - Superbatone 733 - Disc 4 (orig Parlophone R-1851)
Jack Denny and his Waldorf-Astoria Orch (June Pursell v) - Sharing (1932) - Victor 24012 A
Ramona with the Park Avenue Boys - The House is Haunted (1934) - Victor 24597 A
Henry King Hotel Pierre Orch (Joe Sudy v) -You've Got Everything (1933) - Voc 2562 A
Jazz Gillum - I'm Still Walking the Highway (1941) - Bluebird B 8778 A
Jelly Roll Morton Seven - Good Old New York (1940) - General 1704 A
Richard Dowling - Bethena (2015) - Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin (BSW 2240)