How ya gonna keep em down on the Farm - Lt. James Reese Europe's 369th "Hellfighters" Jazz Band 1919
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- Here is African American Entertainment Legend, and WWI Soldier & Jazz Band Leader Lt. James Reese Europe and his 369th U.S. Infantry (Hell Fighters) Jazz Band with vocal by Lt. Noble Sissle, performing "How ya Gonna Keep em down on the farm" from 1919. The record is an American Pathe and the phonograph is a rare Pathe Solophone Model 125 produced around 1916-1917. Europe led this extremely successful early Black Jazz Band comprised of African American Soldiers, on a triumphant and successful tour of European Cities during WWI, and the band led the Triumphant returning U.S. servicemen Down 5th Avenue in New York City at the end of the War. Tragically what was to be surely a brilliant and successful career was cut short when Lt. Europe died as the result of a fatal knife wound inflicted during a scuffle with one of his band members while the Band was on Tour in Boston, Mass. in 1919, and only a matter of days after this recording session at the Pathe Studios.
I have heard this recording on an lp and also on a Jim Europe cd but never on the original Pathe 78, Thanks
God bless these guys. I don't see how humanity could have got through1919 without them--if there was anything else actually listenable going on in the world of popular/dance music, I don't know what it was. Well, the Original Dixieland Jass Band, okay, but still...
On February 12, 1918. jazz was for the first time performed in Europe by this man and his band.
That credit began as a marketing ploy by Pathe. Over the years the notion died out but was picked up again by a new generation of scholars. The fact is they were not the first to introduce Jazz to Europe, or any form of syncopated music. The Southern Syncopated orchestra traveled to Europe in 1916. Even their music was what could best be described as a proto-Jazz. During WW1 there were multiple ensembles attached to regiments who performed publicly in France. Tim Brymn and the 370th Regiment "Black Devils" Orchestra was among them. They too had notoriety during the War. Unfortunately when the mAsses cling on to an idea and run with it, fueling it to become the popular gospel narrative, it's tough to get them to focus diagonally or side to side. They just look straight ahead and don't look back. In life that's a positive. With history, you have to look back.
That was a killer band.
Gives new meaning to "rare," at least as far as I'm concerned. Thanks so much for posting.
One of my favorite Hellfigthers' songs.
What a wonderful recording! And such a great machine! Thank you for always sharing such historic, informative stuff!
This music has reached its 99th year from 2018, and soon 2019 will mark its 100th birthday.
This is a song for any person of authority, as true today as it was at the dusk of WW1.
I love it when people put some thought and effort in their videos...to make them stand out a bit. Keep up the good work!
I knew of Sissle as Eubie Blake's partner, but I think this is the first I have heard his voice.
Very nice...and a very interesting phonograph as well! AND,,,nice rooster!!!
Loved the "farm" touch there.
Thank you for another wonderful comment Miss Pickletoes!! That phonograph as you may or may not know is Pathe Sololphone Model 125. It is the only one of its kind known to still exist. As for the Rooster, in addition to the "Farm" Touch, the Trademark of Pathe of course is a Red Rooster, and although mine is not Red, he is a Rooster!! and since I am playing a Pathe Record on a Pathe Phonograph, I thought a Rooster looking down on the event would add an interesting touch. Thanks again.
Nice piece of old Jazz, the recording is clear, thanks!
CHUCK A. WRIGHT II
its about time! I have been following this on and off since 1980, I share the same appeal Max brooks has in this topic and I hope he tells it right! In particular I take interest in Jim Europe. the movie will show why. Also I personally would nominate Wynton .Marsalis only to do the music score. His genius is aware of WC HANDY,EUBIE BLAKE,SIDNEY BECHET and such royal garden musicians
Have you read it yet? He doesn't focus on the music side much, but it's so great. And Canaan White's illustrations are so excellent
This is wonderful !!
Thank you for sharing.
This is so great! Thank you for posting!!
I have this one.
Sissle's straining to sing lower but it is his voice.
+Chris Rich thanks for sharing!
What a great piece of history! I hope someone is re-recording this and/or keeping some copies in good condition. This one is excellent but it will wear out.
No need to worry about this record wearing out. It is a Pathe, and can only be played with a patented Pathe Sapphire Ball needle which does wear the record, that was part of Pathe's unique process, that is why this record still sounds so great after 90 years of existence. Thank you for watching.
hey victrola man- thanks so much for posting this. syncopated-ragtime? early jazz? hmmmmmmmmm ??? sounds pretty jazzy ! thanks pat k
I am using this song as the theme song to my Michigan's WW1 News Report on TH-cam.
If you are interested in the Great War, you should watch!
The band really gets going after Sissle’s vocal. The Europe band in that last ensemble chorus plays hotter more swinging jazz than anything I have heard on any of the ODJB’s records and I have all their early records, Victors and Aeolian Vocalions on lp’s and cd’s. LaRocca said at no time did blacks play music equal to whites. Sorry, Nick, Jim Europe’s hot jazz military band could have blown you away. I like the ODJB but Europe’s band just plays more hot swinging jazz on this record than the ODJB did. LaRocca’s best playing is on that Okeh of Tiger Rag from 1923 but that record was made 4 years after the Jim Europe and the music had advanced a lot in 4 years. LaRocca finally loosens up on that record and there is a little more swing in his playing than on the earlier records. But by 1922 Mutt Carey’s trumpet playing jazz wise on the Kid Ory Nordskog Ory’s Creole Trombone was light years ahead of what LaRocca was playing a year later on the Okeh record.
I have this one and sever WWl songs on Victor I have a Victrola 420 (1923) .....
I have this exact record, but mine is in worse shape than yours, mine has been played A LOT, so the sound has really deteriorated, unlike yours being very loud. and has a bit of a crack on it.
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