Numero Group along with WFMU Radio have made available for free download a collection of 60 songs recorded from 1908 through 1980 that tells the story of the history of recorded music in Chicago. Numero archivist/producer Michael Slaboch gives a little background on the tracks and how the project came together, as well as a complete track listing below. The history of recorded music in Chicago during the 20th century was broad and deep, traversing sonic areas both [...]
Marion Harris - Paradise Blues (1916) Victor Military Band - Joe Turner Blues (1916) Prince's Band - Hesitating Blues (1915) Nora Bayes - Homesickness Blues (1915) All blues scholars and writers have ID'd the first true blues record : "Crazy Blues", by Mamie Smith, recorded in 1920. Every story of the recorded blues starts with this song. But we tend to forget that songs were recorded with the word "blues" in the title before 1920. [...]
Elvira Barney arriving at her parents house at 6 Belgrave Square, 7th July 1932 Visiting England apparently on a whim and a year before she made her first film late in 1925, a seventeen year-old Louise Brooks became a dancer at the Cafe de Paris in Coventry Street and it was here that she reputedly became the first person to dance the Charleston in London. The Piccadilly nightclub had quickly become the place to be seen when it had opened in December 1924, not least because the Prince of Wales soon became a regular visitor. [...]
Songmasonry: After You've GoneMarion Harris (1918).The Versatile Four (1919).Bessie Smith (1927).Sophie Tucker (1927).The Charleston Chasers (1927).The California Ramblers (1927).Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers (1927).Red Nichols and His Five Pennies (with Jack Teagarden) (1930).Alphonse Trent Orchestra (1930).Fats Waller (1930).Benny Goodman Trio (1935).Roy Eldridge Orchestra (1937).Judy
The Troglodyte World: 1916French woman working at munitions factory, ca. 1915-1916Nora Bayes, Homesickness Blues.Marion Harris, Paradise Blues.The Versatile Four, Circus Day In Dixie.Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra, I Can Dance With Everybody Except My Wife.Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck, L'Amiral Cherche Une Maison à Louer.I see men arising and walking forward and I go forward
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River's Invitation
Another Nickel In The Machine
Locust St.
I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
K-Holes - "Frozen Stiff"
Taste And Try Before You Buy
Summer Camp – “Always”
