Tag: 1919

From the Studio #87 – A pretty Girl Is Like a Melody – Today’s recording features a 1919 tune by Irving Berlin that has been used by many in various ways. I take it at a slow tempo, play the melody, sing a chorus, and make a cornet solo before a short cornet and trumpet ending. (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #318 – Dardanella – Coinciding with WW1, let’s say between 1915 and 1920, oriental types of songs were popular, and this is one of them, published by Fred Fisher in 1919. He also wrote the lyrics, but they are seldom used. When Paul Whiteman took it up about ten years later, he assigned it (…) read more and listenread more and listen