00:00 [01] Harry Ruby and Herbert Stothart (m) & Ruby Kalmar (w) 03:09 [02] Sammy Fain and Benée Russell (m) & Irving Mills (w) 06:10 [03] Oscar Levant (m) & Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young (w) 09:02 [04] Ray Henderson (m) & Mort Dixon (w) 11:48 [05] Lewis E. Gensler (m) & Clifford Grey and Robert A. Simon (w) 15:16 [06] Larry Spier (m & w) 18:12 [07] Theodore Norman (m) & Herman Ruby (w) 21:00 [08] Fred Fisher (m & w) 24:09 [09] Al Bogate and Carl Hoefle (m) & Ned Miller (w) 26:58 [10] Fred Hall (m) & Arthur Fields (w) 30:00 [11] Billy Baskette (m) & Charles Newman (w) 33:23 [12] Sammy Fain (m) & Irving Kahal and Addy Brit (w) 36:05 [13] Joe Burke (m) & Dorothy Terriss (w) 38:45 [14] Arthur Johnston (m) & Herman Ruby and Dave Dreyer (w) 41:47 [15] Walter Donaldson (m) & Gus Kahn (w) 44:46 [16] Con Conrad (m) & Archie Gottler and Sidney D. Mitchell (w) 47:47 [17] Pete Wendling (m) & Alfred Bryan (w) [07] & [14]: Master of melody Harry Ruby - _(see Ruby & Kalmar)_ - co-wrote the *lyrics* to these songs!
Hey, Pax41 Music Time Machine: please give a listen to a fabulous New Orleans jazz, ragtime, blues, etc. band called Tuba Skinny, if you haven't already. You'll love 'em!! Please let me know. Thank you!
I'm a 70s girl, born smack in the middle of the 1920s and the 2020s. I've always had a strong sensation of association with this era. I dare say I would rather have lived then than now, Depression or no Depression. And this music, I'll take it any day!
1939', the great depression is one of the biggest misconceptions in USA history, in fact a whole multitude of life before is...really what do we and now do we learn in school about 1920 beside a flapper and the model t, 1930 for the great depression and dust bowl, and 1940 for clearly the world war. All I learn from that is that peoples negatives outweigh the positives of the time which were vast and grand. They think life was a dream so much that when any negative aspect enters in, they are left believing it was all a lie and a hopeless time period. Now back to yes the stock shortage so many call the great depression. It was a period of 3 years only believe that or not, 1929 which I will not count as an entire year however I'm sure it felt very long, 1930, 1931, and 1932 were the three hit years, but I'll tell you that we still strived in production, creative automobiles every single year, fashion constantly still changing, a lot of movies and performance shows coming out, architecture and buildings being created. The great depression was an effect, it was not a universal destruction of the time period...if you lived in Manhattan in 1931, you would be waiting in a long line for coffee products or to the grocery store (yes they existed... in fact, my grandmother remembers her first grocery store in 1882 or so). The world they show of this time period is a dull horrible world, some places suffer from the romanticization of it, whilst others suffer the complete opposite- a stark wasteland of horror that they will always present it as, sputtering model ts that can barely grip the road, washed out human beings that resembled zombies", dangerous driving, bizzare slang talk, desolate cities with dirt roads (only idiots should believe that one), racist killers at every turn, horrible sexism, honestly that list is longer than Martin Luther's 95 theses and is 99 percent ineffective and based on stereotypes compared to his theses. People each day are more and more against the 20th century...its hopeless really, 100s of arguments later and I'm no closer to informing anyone than I was in 1970.
J Powers The secret to long life is genes, yes, but also a good healthy diet (whole-food plant-based is best), reasonable exercise, surround yourself with loved ones, cultivate an attitude of gratitude for all the good things in life, make the best of all situations, including the bad ones (I know - I’ve survived cancer, and would not change a thing if I had my time again), cultivate lots of interests and activities, never stop learning, keep a childlike enthusiasm, be curious about everything, learn to be observant of the wonders of nature, even the tiny things, take time to smell the flowers, read lots, listen to good music, sing, dance, keep a sense of humour and laugh at the ridiculous, see the best in others... Above all, put your faith in Jesus Christ and you will have real joy, and regardless of how long you live on this earth, you will live forever in His presence in heaven.
Richard Rodriguez Wonderful! Congratulations to you both. My mum was born in 1921 and lived to be 96. I am now 66 and will live forever! Meantime, keep those feet tapping to the glorious rhythms of the 1920s!
@@ShoshiPlatypus Thank you. That's good advice and many of your suggestions are ones I have heard before. My biggest problems include being too worried/tuned into the news flow, not living in the present, finding gratitude, worrying about the well-being of loved ones, etc! Much to work on. Cheers
Microphones weren't used for recording until 1925. Until then records were recorded acoustically with the singers & bands performing into a horn attached to a recording needle that etched the master from which records were made. Often instruments didn't come across clearly and range was limited, with bass especially problematic. Didn't stifle creativity thought - the music is terrific!
It's really important to keep this music alive a whole century later . I appreciate your efforts into sharing this as it's so amazing to hear it ! Thank you so much . I've spent years listening to heavy rock and disco , but every genre is interesting and can be learnt from . I'm now hooked on 1920s music after watching old films . It feels decadent and glamorous . Everyone needs a bit of glamour .
It's very refreshing to hear music from this period. So many different styles blending together with different aesthetics that later generations built on. The influence of jazz was enormous. Shame the Wall St crash ushered in a huge change and Bing Crosby/ Sinatra saccharine morality took the spoils and the 20s became to be seen as an age of shame.
I think I was born in the early 1900s and died in the mid 1940s. This is my music. :). As a child I would buy Laurel and Hardy records mostly for the background music. I'm obsessed with the 20s and early 30s.
I'm 13 and I just realized, I am indeed an old soul, This music is so much better then today's vile modern music. I wish music was still like this, I wish people would dance like they did back in the 20s, and dress like they did back then, I mean Flappers are just the cutest dress ever! I wish music was still like this were you could actually dance to it.
HELLO! I am an old soul too!!! :D This music, is actually cute, to be perfectly honest! I'm glad that we have people out there who upload and share music that out ancestors listened to. :) EDIT: I'm 17
I’m 15 and I usually listen to music from the 1960’s to the 1990’s. I’d say the 70’s and 80’s was the peak for music in my opinion since I love funk and classic r&b music. I don’t really like music from the first half of the 20th century but I can still appreciate for what it is. I just clicked on this video to hear how much music has change in 100 years.
@@bgarri57 The Fox Trot was one, among many, many multitudes of other dances! The Charleston.. The Stomp.. The Rhumba.. The Tango.. The Two-Step.. The Slow Drag.. just to name a few. Today.. what do you have? Twerking. Fucking clueless, classless, untalented people, perpetuating their complete lack of culture.
I love this music It takes my worries away. I play it for therapy and it sure works... I put speaker out window and listen as i do chores or just sit and drink coffee and listen..All the political crap and bad news goes away when I play this Thanks for putting this wonderful music on here...
I was born in the 80s, but because my mother is a pianist and vintage music aficionado, I grew up exposed to the very best of retro songs ranging from the 1920s to the 1960s, especially a lot of Gershwin, Porter, and jazz vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. I actually used to be embarrassed a little growing up in the 90s, an era of pop and boy bands, that so much 'old-timey' music was played in the house but now that I've matured, I find myself listening to THESE kinds of musical genres. I like the 90s music I grew up with hearing on the radio and MTV sometimes, but somehow these classic tunes and ballads from the early 20th century have more staying power with me. I really appreciate now that my ear was tuned in this way!
Who could NOT like early 20th century music ? The 1920s thru the 1940s was a fantastic period in music . A lot of talented composers like Irving Berlin , Cole Porter , Johnny Mercer , Cab Calloway just to name a few 👍
It’s so great to know people like you have been able to digitalize music from this era, so that others even in 100 years can hear what our grandparents used to dance to. 👍😇🥳
Steve Heywood Great comment. As I listened to this video, I was thinking about my grandparents, and also about one of my favourite films, Thoroughly Modern Millie! I love the 20s - the fashions, the architecture, the beginnings of Art Deco, the glamour... It’s great living today, though, because we can enjoy these things from all the previous periods. I also love the big band music of the 1940s, the sort of music to keep people’s morale up in the dark days of WW2. There is a lightness and innocence about the music of the early 20th century which has been lost in our modern times when everything seems to have got so dark and ugly.
Always been drawn to the 20s. What an explosion! IMO the REAL sexual revolution & party decade: the golden Gatsby era post-WWI & pre-market crash. The music, art, clothes, cars, architecture, fashion, hairstyles. So exciting and wild, even prohibition couldn't stop it.
I was born in late 40's but I do like the popular music, dances and trendy looks of the ROARING 20's. Its unique cartoon-like musical apps and styles engrossingly suits its romantic vocal renditions. RELAXES ME with my feet gently swinging uncontrollably!!!
The people who made this joyous music had not only survived a global pandemic, but also America's (admittedly limited) participation in a global war. Even if I personally don't make it (59 years, 9 months, so PROBABLY I will), we the people will.
It is a bummer that todays music does not contain music from horn instruments. I love the clarinet, sax and trombone.That is why I love the music of the 20s.
Look up Brian Setzer. Back in the 80s, he was the lead singer of a rock band called the Stray Cats. He now does Big Band music. The music is still around; you just have to look for it.
One thing that gives this music its unique sound is the limitations of the recording system in use then. Drums did not record well until better microphones were developed, so the rhythm line was provided by the tuba and banjos. Notice how cymbals sound like pot lids banged together? It also explains why most men's vocals were by tenors. When better electric microphones were available, baritones became more popular as their range could be recorded properly, and the era of the great baritone crooners, like Crosby, began, and you started getting more emphasis on drummers. Imagine what a band today would sound like if orchestrated like Whiteman's early band, using tubas and banjos, but hardly any percussion.
The limited use of drums had nothing to do with recording capability. If you study popular music BEFORE recording capabilities, the use of drums was present (barely), and severely limited. The bands of the era were NOT put together for recording, but for LIVE dance music in dance halls. Their income derived from live performances (and a lot of travel from place to place). The tuba-banjo combo evolved to give the tune "swing". Musical "swing" was completely evolved by 1925. The tuba-banjo is a slew of musical contrasts for a purpose and effect. Recording is not a factor. Tuba - banjo: (1) 1-3 to 2-4; the 2-4 (banjo) is slightly delayed for tension, but the tuba (1&3) is "on". (2)Monophonic (single note) to polyphonic (i.e: chords of the banjo). (3) Low sound (deep) (1&3) to high (2&4). (4) Soft sound of tuba to sharp/shrill (attack) of banjo. (5) Long note/sound (slow decay of tuba) to short (fast decay of banjo). (6) Radically different (also contrasting) undertones of brass-wind vs. the banjo's strings hit with a pick - instead of the original/traditional fingers. These juxtapositioned, contrasting each other in the above listed ways in the rhythm section gave the musical(!) "swing" feel, without the drums. Cymbals only... The tuba - banjo combo use was for musical(!) reasons, NOT for recording. Drums actually (with the guitar) in the 1930s severely muted the musical "swing" feel. (Remember, it's NOT about the dance - that's another subject). Per Tex Wyndham - a well known authority on the genre - wrote in his writings, that there have been well known dance-bands in the 20s (i.e: written about at the time), that haven't recorded as far as we know, or in case they did, we have lost all recordings of them. There ARE many trad. bands to this day, who eschew the use of drums. Famous example: Tuba Skinny band of NOLA, uses only washboard.
I was born in 1997, is it weird that this music makes me feel so calm and collected? Almost nostalgic for a time I've never experienced. I can listen to this all day and feel really good because of it
I grew up listening to this music in the Midlands, U.K, as this was the era of my mother who had music like this emanating from the 'wireless' as it was referred to then. We'd sit around the dining table, and wait for dad to get in so that we could get stuck into a hearty dinner. So I understand your fascination and attraction to it.
My dad was a teenager in the 1920s. He loved it...lots of roaring activity; dancing, drinking, and everything that comes with fun times! Lots of music then, too, just like we are hearing here.
Right off the bat, first song is right phobic against the polyamorous community. Also, you’re not allowed to like anything from any period in which there was racism. CANCELLED. Jk
That is too funny and my father was born in 1926. I was the youngest of six kids and born much later than the fifth one, not really planned as I was told. However, it was old 1960's records that I was exposed to by older siblings.
Pax41 Music Time Machine I was born in the early 50s and grew up with the best period of pop music in the 60s. Things went downhill after that. The first half of the 20th century was definitely the best for popular music. My parents were both classical musicians (dad was an amateur) and I grew up with the sound of live chamber music coming up through the floorboards of my bedroom as a child, and I still adore it. I have very eclectic tastes in music - I also enjoy world music and folk. I’m not keen on heavy rock and modern dance music.
@@ShoshiPlatypus It appears we have some similar tastes in music. My music tastes are very eclectic, if you dig around through the posts on the channel you will find a wide variety of music styles. There are music posts from as early as 1903 up into the 1940's. The various posts contain classical, opera, ragtime, jazz, swing/big band and popular dance music from each decade. If you use the search feature and enter salon music you will find some pieces you may enjoy. Also, enter light opera or musical for some other enjoyable selections too. Let me know what you think Shoshi.
This music was in the background of cartoons, films and 'Our Gang Comedies', also known as Little Rascals! I was a lad of the 1950's and heard it then. It's great to be able to call up on TH-cam.
My father was born in 1903. If he heard an old fashioned song, like the Beatles' When I'm Sixty-Four, he would break into a little shuffle dance and start singing. It brought out a silly, mischievous side that we rarely saw. Unfortunately, my father almost never talked about the past. He acted like we wouldn't be interested, when we were actually very interested.
Its amazing to think close to 80% of all the music written before tye 21st century only exists in vinyl and consquentually whenever I play a record here at home ,perhaps no one alive has heard it in close to a century . It really makes you wonder how much history is lost in a span of a lifetime and how beautiful it is really is that some record remains at all . When you pick up a rock you can say the same thing ,some of them have been around for centuries if only they could talk Im sure they would have so many stories to tell perhaps even shed some light on the creation of the universe haha
Actually the music before the 1950's was on shellac which is much different from vinyl. The shellac has a much more porous surface and why you get a lot of surface noise. One of the benefits of the vinyl was it had less surface noise on playback. You may have known this Angel but there are many that are not aware of the difference.
I'm also from '89 and agree. We had decent music until the late 2000s, but now it's tuneless crap, not even "scandalous" it's just pretentious and boring (and Rihanna and Adele are so overrated)
That was common for the dance bands but there are plenty of recordings where the whole recording is with individuals singing. Most of the popular music of the 1900s and 1910s was with people singing vocals. There are also a lot of 1920s and 1930s recordings of vocalists like, Jane Green, Marion Harris, Franklyn Baur, The Revelers, Gene Austin, Billy Murray, Aileen Stanley and later Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo, Ruth Etting, Annette Hanshaw and many others.
I have around 400 old 78rpm records from the 20's 30's 40's and 50's. The sound quality on this upload is excellent. I'm so used to the background noises of my records I forgot how clear it would have sounded back then.
If I have a decent copy of a vintage record, especially Columbia's and Victor's, it isn't too hard to get them to sound pretty good. The more the record was played with those old steel needles the more wear and thus surface noise found on many records. British records are another story due to the damp conditions in many homes back then. They have a lot of what collectors call the English Crackle sound. Victor records from the early 1930's had sound almost as good as ones produced in the 1950's. They used high quality ribbon microphones that produced terrific sound. However, the playback equipment wasn't capable yet to reproduce what was being recorded. That would take another 20 years, along with the switch to vinyl instead of shellac.
The records would soon get scratched or chipped back then so the surface noise would soon have developed . The old steel needles were supposed to be used once but of course they were used until they were blunted. They were sold in small tins of around 50 . But they were not really that cheap,by the standards of the day. Most young working class people would be earning less than £100 per year, often quite a bit less. So 6D ( 6 old British pennies), I think that was the price of a tin of needles, was quite a lot of money. Woolworths sold covers of the big name record companies for 6D or 9d , “Regal” was one such name, another was “Embassy” . At one time I had several thousand 78 RPM records and 6 players.
So much nostalgia. And just think, this was the first music to be broadcast, so it's been beaming out into space on radio waves for a hundred years and will be the first Earth music heard in another galaxy.
Just the tonic I needed for a gloomy night: bright and bouncy sonic riches from the 1920s. I really was having a tough night and this set popped up, and man! I'm so glad it did. Thanks so much for all of your hard work to bring these treasures out of the shadows of time for all of us to enjoy.
Pensaba que era el ùnico loco que aùn disfruta de esta mùsica. A nadie le habìa contado mi aficiòn y me alegra que habemos muchos. Es lo mejor que hay!..Alegre, rìtmica y que evoca una bella època.!
I have never imagined there were so so so many 1920's records released ! It's wonderful ! This is a result of powerful USA after World War I. I keep thinking what economic boom It was. This is the real "Great Gatsby's sound track". Thank you, thank you very much! Eduardo Bastos. 52 y.o. - San Paulo City - Brazil.
The US, contrary to what some may think, was an economic powerhouse from the 1870's all the way up to the end of the 20th century. It was not uncommon to find made in the USA on many common items used in everyday life. The proof is in the many vintage magazines that can still be found online and in antique stores. Magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and The Ladies Home Journal were full of ads for countless items all made in the USA. Thank you for watching the channel Eduardo!
Yes. There was a great flowering of American popular music for about 30 years, up to WW2 really. And some really superb musicians to arrange them and play them!
Me encanta todo lo que tiene más de 50 años de antigüedad. Me siento menos solo, encontrar personas que se sientan tan identificados con estas piezas añejas. :)
Es una hermosa música nostálgica, que me remonta a imaginar cómo era esa época y me hace soñar. Música muy nostálgica , un gran acierto su publicación, mil gracias dios los bendiga.
Hello, you fellow travellers of the post 20's era who yearn for the music and culture of the 20s. Everything about it, except the poverty, fills a huge cavity in my present existence; the joyfulness, the rhythmic, melodious music, the sheer happiness lifts my spirits to the highest possible level. Oh, transport me to the world of my dreams. Please,please, just for a day.
Thank you Larry for your generous donation to the channel. Some of the February posts the others will enjoy are due to your support of this channel. Thank you again!😊🙂
I use this as a soundtrack for literally everything. Just try, open a random youtube video, mute it, and open this in another tab with the audio on. It's perfect 100% of times.
Glad you love the music Linda. I think the 20's would be a great time to visit but we do have some amenities today that I would surely miss. You have to remember that by the end of the 1920's only about 65% of homes in the US had basics like electricity. Having a phone in your home was even much less common than having electricity. Let's not forget about modern medicine, there have been many advancements made since this time, antibiotics for one.
"I wanna be loved by you" that Marilyn Monroe sang in" Some Like It Hot" the movie was set in the 1920's. This the original song from 20's . Love it ! ❤️
Yeah , they were until 1929 and the bottom fell out of the stock market and the depression hit . after the slaughter of The Great War was over in 1918 people just wanted to live and forget about all the horror .
About ten years ago I bought a cd with music of the 1920s and 30s which contains some of the tracks published here. I really like it. Each decade has its good and not so good things, except for the music you hear today,which is almost entirely rubbish.
00:00 [01] Harry Ruby and Herbert Stothart (m) & Ruby Kalmar (w)
03:09 [02] Sammy Fain and Benée Russell (m) & Irving Mills (w)
06:10 [03] Oscar Levant (m) & Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young (w)
09:02 [04] Ray Henderson (m) & Mort Dixon (w)
11:48 [05] Lewis E. Gensler (m) & Clifford Grey and Robert A. Simon (w)
15:16 [06] Larry Spier (m & w)
18:12 [07] Theodore Norman (m) & Herman Ruby (w)
21:00 [08] Fred Fisher (m & w)
24:09 [09] Al Bogate and Carl Hoefle (m) & Ned Miller (w)
26:58 [10] Fred Hall (m) & Arthur Fields (w)
30:00 [11] Billy Baskette (m) & Charles Newman (w)
33:23 [12] Sammy Fain (m) & Irving Kahal and Addy Brit (w)
36:05 [13] Joe Burke (m) & Dorothy Terriss (w)
38:45 [14] Arthur Johnston (m) & Herman Ruby and Dave Dreyer (w)
41:47 [15] Walter Donaldson (m) & Gus Kahn (w)
44:46 [16] Con Conrad (m) & Archie Gottler and Sidney D. Mitchell (w)
47:47 [17] Pete Wendling (m) & Alfred Bryan (w)
[07] & [14]:
Master of melody Harry Ruby - _(see Ruby & Kalmar)_ - co-wrote the *lyrics* to these songs!
Thank you
Henri de Lagardère -
Merci monsieur ! You are the best !
back in the days before women sang. at least thats what this playlist would leave one to believe.
Merci beaucoup.
Hey, Pax41 Music Time Machine: please give a listen to a fabulous New Orleans jazz, ragtime, blues, etc. band called Tuba Skinny, if you haven't already. You'll love 'em!! Please let me know. Thank you!
TH-cam is the world’s best time machine.
Yes, I agree!
You can say that again
Ι agree!
2020 season 2 sucks already but I sure love this music!
Yeahh
Who else is here listening to this in 1920?
Starman's here in 2020.....sounds good to Me.
@@CamperVanPersie Time machine baby 😆
Мы.
I will be disappointed if cool stuff from the 1920's doesn't make a comeback in the 2020's.
I agree!
I concur...
😭😭😭
Bring back fully auto Tommy guns.
I'm a 70s girl, born smack in the middle of the 1920s and the 2020s. I've always had a strong sensation of association with this era. I dare say I would rather have lived then than now, Depression or no Depression. And this music, I'll take it any day!
rock on. 71
@@FrostifiedRight back at ya... '71 here, too 😉
1939', the great depression is one of the biggest misconceptions in USA history, in fact a whole multitude of life before is...really what do we and now do we learn in school about 1920 beside a flapper and the model t, 1930 for the great depression and dust bowl, and 1940 for clearly the world war. All I learn from that is that peoples negatives outweigh the positives of the time which were vast and grand. They think life was a dream so much that when any negative aspect enters in, they are left believing it was all a lie and a hopeless time period. Now back to yes the stock shortage so many call the great depression. It was a period of 3 years only believe that or not, 1929 which I will not count as an entire year however I'm sure it felt very long, 1930, 1931, and 1932 were the three hit years, but I'll tell you that we still strived in production, creative automobiles every single year, fashion constantly still changing, a lot of movies and performance shows coming out, architecture and buildings being created. The great depression was an effect, it was not a universal destruction of the time period...if you lived in Manhattan in 1931, you would be waiting in a long line for coffee products or to the grocery store (yes they existed... in fact, my grandmother remembers her first grocery store in 1882 or so). The world they show of this time period is a dull horrible world, some places suffer from the romanticization of it, whilst others suffer the complete opposite- a stark wasteland of horror that they will always present it as, sputtering model ts that can barely grip the road, washed out human beings that resembled zombies", dangerous driving, bizzare slang talk, desolate cities with dirt roads (only idiots should believe that one), racist killers at every turn, horrible sexism, honestly that list is longer than Martin Luther's 95 theses and is 99 percent ineffective and based on stereotypes compared to his theses. People each day are more and more against the 20th century...its hopeless really, 100s of arguments later and I'm no closer to informing anyone than I was in 1970.
Hello, nice to meet you here, how are you?
@@artdecotimes2942 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
I'm 86 . reminds me of my teen years on a Saturday at the Palais De Dance with the big bands there.
my mom was born in 1919 she is headed to 101, i'm 78 expecting to be 135
Hoping you both have a great life until our Lord returns.
What the secret, besides good genes?
J Powers The secret to long life is genes, yes, but also a good healthy diet (whole-food plant-based is best), reasonable exercise, surround yourself with loved ones, cultivate an attitude of gratitude for all the good things in life, make the best of all situations, including the bad ones (I know - I’ve survived cancer, and would not change a thing if I had my time again), cultivate lots of interests and activities, never stop learning, keep a childlike enthusiasm, be curious about everything, learn to be observant of the wonders of nature, even the tiny things, take time to smell the flowers, read lots, listen to good music, sing, dance, keep a sense of humour and laugh at the ridiculous, see the best in others... Above all, put your faith in Jesus Christ and you will have real joy, and regardless of how long you live on this earth, you will live forever in His presence in heaven.
Richard Rodriguez Wonderful! Congratulations to you both. My mum was born in 1921 and lived to be 96. I am now 66 and will live forever! Meantime, keep those feet tapping to the glorious rhythms of the 1920s!
@@ShoshiPlatypus Thank you. That's good advice and many of your suggestions are ones I have heard before. My biggest problems include being too worried/tuned into the news flow, not living in the present, finding gratitude, worrying about the well-being of loved ones, etc! Much to work on. Cheers
Microphones weren't used for recording until 1925. Until then records were recorded acoustically with the singers & bands performing into a horn attached to a recording needle that etched the master from which records were made. Often instruments didn't come across clearly and range was limited, with bass especially problematic. Didn't stifle creativity thought - the music is terrific!
It's really important to keep this music alive a whole century later . I appreciate your efforts into sharing this as it's so amazing to hear it ! Thank you so much . I've spent years listening to heavy rock and disco , but every genre is interesting and can be learnt from . I'm now hooked on 1920s music after watching old films . It feels decadent and glamorous . Everyone needs a bit of glamour .
Great comment Michaela and I very much agree with the last statement. Thank you for watching the channel too!😊🙂
It's very refreshing to hear music from this period. So many different styles blending together with different aesthetics that later generations built on. The influence of jazz was enormous. Shame the Wall St crash ushered in a huge change and Bing Crosby/ Sinatra saccharine morality took the spoils and the 20s became to be seen as an age of shame.
I think I was born in the early 1900s and died in the mid 1940s. This is my music. :). As a child I would buy Laurel and Hardy records mostly for the background music. I'm obsessed with the 20s and early 30s.
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 100 years since the 1920’s I hope it’ll be as exciting as back then was; dancing, drinking and flirting!
Glowing Karma One thing is certain: the year will be memorable for eye doctors.
@@bobbywimsy6741
Is that a joke? If so, that's quite funny!! ^∆^
Unfortunately, things are so much worse these days.
Driving a car was also just starting.
I'm 13 and I just realized, I am indeed an old soul, This music is so much better then today's vile modern music. I wish music was still like this, I wish people would dance like they did back in the 20s, and dress like they did back then, I mean Flappers are just the cutest dress ever! I wish music was still like this were you could actually dance to it.
HELLO! I am an old soul too!!! :D This music, is actually cute, to be perfectly honest! I'm glad that we have people out there who upload and share music that out ancestors listened to. :)
EDIT: I'm 17
I’m 15 and I usually listen to music from the 1960’s to the 1990’s. I’d say the 70’s and 80’s was the peak for music in my opinion since I love funk and classic r&b music. I don’t really like music from the first half of the 20th century but I can still appreciate for what it is. I just clicked on this video to hear how much music has change in 100 years.
Listen to "Japanese Sandman" and "Im forever blowing bubbles 1919" if you like old music
The prevalent dance was the 'fox trot.'
@@bgarri57 The Fox Trot was one, among many, many multitudes of other dances! The Charleston.. The Stomp.. The Rhumba.. The Tango.. The Two-Step.. The Slow Drag.. just to name a few. Today.. what do you have? Twerking. Fucking clueless, classless, untalented people, perpetuating their complete lack of culture.
From my grandmother's time. I can't imagine how interesting those days were.
Very interesting indeed!
Born in 1939 in Argentina brings memories never happened. it is wonderfull
Que bom que você gostou da música e obrigado por assistir o canal.
i can listen to the 20's music alllllllll dayyy!!!!!
I think this is my second life and my first was 1920s
I think many of us feel the same way Junnie.
Same!
I'm so glad the '20s are back!
heh , I see what you did there :') 👏👌
I love this music It takes my worries away. I play it for therapy and it sure works... I put speaker out window and listen as i do chores or just sit and drink coffee and listen..All the political crap and bad news goes away when I play this Thanks for putting this wonderful music on here...
Me too it relaxes after everything that is going on right now.
Same here ☝
True. I feel better.
100 years ago. Much better than hip hop. Really enjoyed and reminisced of days gone by.
I love ❤ this magnificent music of the 20's in 2023
I was born in 1931 when this music was still popular. I loved it then and still do.
Great stuff! Back when music was real not like some of the garbage they have now.
I was born in the 80s, but because my mother is a pianist and vintage music aficionado, I grew up exposed to the very best of retro songs ranging from the 1920s to the 1960s, especially a lot of Gershwin, Porter, and jazz vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. I actually used to be embarrassed a little growing up in the 90s, an era of pop and boy bands, that so much 'old-timey' music was played in the house but now that I've matured, I find myself listening to THESE kinds of musical genres. I like the 90s music I grew up with hearing on the radio and MTV sometimes, but somehow these classic tunes and ballads from the early 20th century have more staying power with me. I really appreciate now that my ear was tuned in this way!
@Exntryk Exntryk I will. Thank you. :)
Hello Victoria.....
Hello beautiful, how are you?
All these wonderful songs are 90 odd years old. I wonder how many of today's songs will still be sung in 90 years time? Mmmm.
Do they even have songs now? I can't think of any.
Who could NOT like early 20th century music ?
The 1920s thru the 1940s was a fantastic period in music . A lot of talented composers like Irving Berlin , Cole Porter , Johnny Mercer , Cab Calloway just to name a few 👍
Absolutely correct Linda, fantastic period in music and one we will never see again.
Hello
I'm just imagining listening to this on a gramophone while have a whisky and a smoke
It’s so great to know people like you have been able to digitalize music from this era, so that others even in 100 years can hear what our grandparents used to dance to. 👍😇🥳
Steve it is very time consuming but I enjoy doing it. Thank you for watching the channel and posting a comment! 😊🙃😀
Steve Heywood Great comment. As I listened to this video, I was thinking about my grandparents, and also about one of my favourite films, Thoroughly Modern Millie! I love the 20s - the fashions, the architecture, the beginnings of Art Deco, the glamour... It’s great living today, though, because we can enjoy these things from all the previous periods. I also love the big band music of the 1940s, the sort of music to keep people’s morale up in the dark days of WW2. There is a lightness and innocence about the music of the early 20th century which has been lost in our modern times when everything seems to have got so dark and ugly.
Steve Heywood my dad Samuel used to dance to the Charleston around 1926 when he was a 20 yo.
Always been drawn to the 20s. What an explosion! IMO the REAL sexual revolution & party decade: the golden Gatsby era post-WWI & pre-market crash. The music, art, clothes, cars, architecture, fashion, hairstyles. So exciting and wild, even prohibition couldn't stop it.
I was born in late 40's but I do like the popular music, dances and trendy looks of the ROARING 20's. Its unique cartoon-like musical apps and styles engrossingly suits its romantic vocal renditions. RELAXES ME with my feet gently swinging uncontrollably!!!
I agree Gerardo, it is very relaxing and can stimulate those feet to move too. 🙂😊
I made breakfast for my brother and listened to this music and all of my canaries were singing. Thank you.
The people who made this joyous music had not only survived a global pandemic, but also America's (admittedly limited) participation in a global war. Even if I personally don't make it (59 years, 9 months, so PROBABLY I will), we the people will.
You WILL make it! Take care, youtube mate😀
@@passionfruitfruit - Thank you, kind friend.
@@nerowolfe736 🤝🏻
yes if we the people takes back the reins of govt.
in the next 10 years these songs are all going to be over 100 years old!
Yep but will still be classics.
Who is here in 2020?🎷🎺🎹🥁❤
Love the style of hat you chose!It's quite smart!
2021... march 29
Fly ass hat Bro
It is a bummer that todays music does not contain music from horn instruments. I love the clarinet, sax and trombone.That is why I love the music of the 20s.
Look up Brian Setzer. Back in the 80s, he was the lead singer of a rock band called the Stray Cats. He now does Big Band music. The music is still around; you just have to look for it.
Funk music has entered the chat
Look up Post Modern Jukebox.
Love the oldies.....actually they never age...evergreens always...
To think that this music comes from (almost) 100 years ago... goosebumps!
Lot's of great music from the past for you to discover 😉
One thing that gives this music its unique sound is the limitations of the recording system in use then. Drums did not record well until better microphones were developed, so the rhythm line was provided by the tuba and banjos. Notice how cymbals sound like pot lids banged together? It also explains why most men's vocals were by tenors. When better electric microphones were available, baritones became more popular as their range could be recorded properly, and the era of the great baritone crooners, like Crosby, began, and you started getting more emphasis on drummers. Imagine what a band today would sound like if orchestrated like Whiteman's early band, using tubas and banjos, but hardly any percussion.
It was recorded in one take as well with a sense of teetering danger.
nice info thanks
The limited use of drums had nothing to do with recording capability. If you study popular music BEFORE recording capabilities, the use of drums was present (barely), and severely limited. The bands of the era were NOT put together for recording, but for LIVE dance music in dance halls. Their income derived from live performances (and a lot of travel from place to place). The tuba-banjo combo evolved to give the tune "swing". Musical "swing" was completely evolved by 1925.
The tuba-banjo is a slew of musical contrasts for a purpose and effect. Recording is not a factor.
Tuba - banjo:
(1) 1-3 to 2-4; the 2-4 (banjo) is slightly delayed for tension, but the tuba (1&3) is "on".
(2)Monophonic (single note) to polyphonic (i.e: chords of the banjo).
(3) Low sound (deep) (1&3) to high (2&4).
(4) Soft sound of tuba to sharp/shrill (attack) of banjo.
(5) Long note/sound (slow decay of tuba) to short (fast decay of banjo).
(6) Radically different (also contrasting) undertones of brass-wind vs. the banjo's strings hit with a pick - instead of the original/traditional fingers.
These juxtapositioned, contrasting each other in the above listed ways in the rhythm section gave the musical(!) "swing" feel, without the drums. Cymbals only...
The tuba - banjo combo use was for musical(!) reasons, NOT for recording.
Drums actually (with the guitar) in the 1930s severely muted the musical "swing" feel. (Remember, it's NOT about the dance - that's another subject).
Per Tex Wyndham - a well known authority on the genre - wrote in his writings, that there have been well known dance-bands in the 20s (i.e: written about at the time), that haven't recorded as far as we know, or in case they did, we have lost all recordings of them.
There ARE many trad. bands to this day, who eschew the use of drums.
Famous example: Tuba Skinny band of NOLA, uses only washboard.
@@victorsong8416 wow more education on this music thanks
90 plus years ago and still sounds wonderful!
Glad to hear it and stay well my friend.
I was born in 1997, is it weird that this music makes me feel so calm and collected? Almost nostalgic for a time I've never experienced. I can listen to this all day and feel really good because of it
I don't think it's weird at all. This music predates me as well but I feel the same too.
If you play it at 0.75 speed it's even more calming.
@@Sawrattan Why would you want to play it at that speed? It would sound strange and too slow. The records on this post play at 78.26.
@@pax41 not if it's instrumental, at 0.75 speed I feel like a Flapper reclining in her boudoir after a long party 😏
I grew up listening to this music in the Midlands, U.K, as this was the era of my mother who had music like this emanating from the 'wireless' as it was referred to then. We'd sit around the dining table, and wait for dad to get in so that we could get stuck into a hearty dinner. So I understand your fascination and attraction to it.
Both my parents born in the 1920s. I can just picture my grandparents listening to this music.
My dad was a teenager in the 1920s. He loved it...lots of roaring activity; dancing, drinking, and everything that comes with fun times! Lots of music then, too, just like we are hearing here.
1929 was a year, i mean, a whole decade
How old you I. mean your age
My grumps was 100 years old today
I’m probably a bit late but happy birthday to him.
He will remember this music with nostalgia, as I do. Happy birthday grumps !!
Great music that I hope never gets canceled.
Right off the bat, first song is right phobic against the polyamorous community. Also, you’re not allowed to like anything from any period in which there was racism. CANCELLED. Jk
Hey I'm time traveling to 1920
My dad was born in the 20s, and 20s to 40s music was all I heard in the house growing up until I was 5 when I found out there was other music.
That is too funny and my father was born in 1926. I was the youngest of six kids and born much later than the fifth one, not really planned as I was told. However, it was old 1960's records that I was exposed to by older siblings.
Pax41 Music Time Machine I was born in the early 50s and grew up with the best period of pop music in the 60s. Things went downhill after that. The first half of the 20th century was definitely the best for popular music. My parents were both classical musicians (dad was an amateur) and I grew up with the sound of live chamber music coming up through the floorboards of my bedroom as a child, and I still adore it. I have very eclectic tastes in music - I also enjoy world music and folk. I’m not keen on heavy rock and modern dance music.
@@ShoshiPlatypus It appears we have some similar tastes in music. My music tastes are very eclectic, if you dig around through the posts on the channel you will find a wide variety of music styles. There are music posts from as early as 1903 up into the 1940's. The various posts contain classical, opera, ragtime, jazz, swing/big band and popular dance music from each decade. If you use the search feature and enter salon music you will find some pieces you may enjoy. Also, enter light opera or musical for some other enjoyable selections too. Let me know what you think Shoshi.
Pax41 Music Time Machine Thanks! Will do. New subscriber.
@@ShoshiPlatypus Thank you for subscribing Shoshi🙂
This music will never come back. But it should. Real tunes, and snappy arrangements!
i agree this music is the BEST!
STILL ENJOYING THIS GREAT MUSIC ESP. IN THE MORNING GIVES ME A POSITIVE OUTLOOK ON LIFE
beatifull music
Glad you are enjoying it!
Reminds me of my dear mother she loved music of this era bless you dearest mum I think of you alot
Glad I could help you with some fond memories Irene.
Gracias a quienes tienen la gentileza de darse el tiempo de buscar estas joyas musicales , me encanta me fascina escuchar estas joyas de la música
Patricia Me alegra que hayas disfrutado de la música y gracias por ver el canal.
@@pax41 gracias a ti y seguiré viendo tu canal ,
This music was in the background of cartoons, films and 'Our Gang Comedies', also known as Little Rascals! I was a lad of the 1950's and heard it then. It's great to be able to call up on TH-cam.
My great-grandma was born in 1900. I wonder if she ever danced to any of these.
More than likely she did Delilah. She would have been in here twenties then.
She definitely did!
My father was born in 1903. If he heard an old fashioned song, like the Beatles' When I'm Sixty-Four, he would break into a little shuffle dance and start singing. It brought out a silly, mischievous side that we rarely saw. Unfortunately, my father almost never talked about the past. He acted like we wouldn't be interested, when we were actually very interested.
I am 86 and love this music
Its amazing to think close to 80% of all the music written before tye 21st century only exists in vinyl and consquentually whenever I play a record here at home ,perhaps no one alive has heard it in close to a century . It really makes you wonder how much history is lost in a span of a lifetime and how beautiful it is really is that some record remains at all . When you pick up a rock you can say the same thing ,some of them have been around for centuries if only they could talk Im sure they would have so many stories to tell perhaps even shed some light on the creation of the universe haha
Actually the music before the 1950's was on shellac which is much different from vinyl. The shellac has a much more porous surface and why you get a lot of surface noise. One of the benefits of the vinyl was it had less surface noise on playback. You may have known this Angel but there are many that are not aware of the difference.
@@pax41 And those edges cracked pretty easy!
I was born in 1989. Music nowadays is trash. Greatful for the people who has compilations of this music on TH-cam. Thank you!
So glad you like it We D Midnight! I have a daughter that was born in 2000 and she likes some of this music too.
I'm also from '89 and agree. We had decent music until the late 2000s, but now it's tuneless crap, not even "scandalous" it's just pretentious and boring (and Rihanna and Adele are so overrated)
my goodness this is 100 years old already 1920-2020
The songs in this post are almost 100 years old, most are late 1920's recordings.
When music was musical and delightful!
Glad you enjoyed it Roslyn.
And also worth being heard.
Interesting how songs back then had a long instrumental introduction and brief vocals
That was common for the dance bands but there are plenty of recordings where the whole recording is with individuals singing. Most of the popular music of the 1900s and 1910s was with people singing vocals. There are also a lot of 1920s and 1930s recordings of vocalists like, Jane Green, Marion Harris, Franklyn Baur, The Revelers, Gene Austin, Billy Murray, Aileen Stanley and later Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo, Ruth Etting, Annette Hanshaw and many others.
Great to listen beautiful songs from 100 years ago.
I have around 400 old 78rpm records from the 20's 30's 40's and 50's. The sound quality on this upload is excellent. I'm so used to the background noises of my records I forgot how clear it would have sounded back then.
If I have a decent copy of a vintage record, especially Columbia's and Victor's, it isn't too hard to get them to sound pretty good. The more the record was played with those old steel needles the more wear and thus surface noise found on many records. British records are another story due to the damp conditions in many homes back then. They have a lot of what collectors call the English Crackle sound. Victor records from the early 1930's had sound almost as good as ones produced in the 1950's. They used high quality ribbon microphones that produced terrific sound. However, the playback equipment wasn't capable yet to reproduce what was being recorded. That would take another 20 years, along with the switch to vinyl instead of shellac.
The records would soon get scratched or chipped back then so the surface noise would soon have developed . The old steel needles were supposed to be used once but of course they were used until they were blunted. They were sold in small tins of around 50 . But they were not really that cheap,by the standards of the day. Most young working class people would be earning less than £100 per year, often quite a bit less. So 6D ( 6 old British pennies), I think that was the price of a tin of needles, was quite a lot of money. Woolworths sold covers of the big name record companies for 6D or 9d , “Regal” was one such name, another was “Embassy” . At one time I had several thousand 78 RPM records and 6 players.
@@pax41 I love the English Crackle Sound. But especially the tinny sound.
I used to listen to this and sit in my living-room to watch my plants grow, they were healthy plants! I think my plants liked this music too ;)
I think my plants enjoy it as well Philippe. Good to hear from you again, stay safe and well. 🙂
@@pax41 Merci de votre sollicitude cher ami, je vous souhaite la pareille ! ..... ;-)
@@MegaCirse Merci Philippe
We're in the 20's again!
So much nostalgia. And just think, this was the first music to be broadcast, so it's been beaming out into space on radio waves for a hundred years and will be the first Earth music heard in another galaxy.
This thought makes me happy!
I love 20s music. I've always felt a connection to the twenties.
Lets hope that the aliens are vegetarians.
Just the tonic I needed for a gloomy night: bright and bouncy sonic riches from the 1920s. I really was having a tough night and this set popped up, and man! I'm so glad it did. Thanks so much for all of your hard work to bring these treasures out of the shadows of time for all of us to enjoy.
Hope 2day was better :)
@@bondjames5792 Indeed it was, many thanks for the encouragement.
Well put
Welcome Kirk, hope you are doing well.
Pensaba que era el ùnico loco que aùn disfruta de esta mùsica. A nadie le habìa contado mi aficiòn y me alegra que habemos muchos. Es lo mejor que hay!..Alegre, rìtmica y que evoca una bella època.!
La música no tiene tiempo , ni edad !!...
A mi me sorprende ver tantos comentarios en Español!
I am surprised to see so many comments in Spanish!
I play this music for my parakeets, they happily chirp along to it,lol 🐥🐦
A time that lives again in these beautiful melodies and romantic lyrics. I live in Peru.
I have never imagined there were so so so many 1920's records released ! It's wonderful ! This is a result of powerful USA after World War I. I keep thinking what economic boom It was. This is the real "Great Gatsby's sound track". Thank you, thank you very much!
Eduardo Bastos. 52 y.o. - San Paulo City - Brazil.
The US, contrary to what some may think, was an economic powerhouse from the 1870's all the way up to the end of the 20th century. It was not uncommon to find made in the USA on many common items used in everyday life. The proof is in the many vintage magazines that can still be found online and in antique stores. Magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and The Ladies Home Journal were full of ads for countless items all made in the USA. Thank you for watching the channel Eduardo!
Yes. There was a great flowering of American popular music for about 30 years, up to WW2 really. And some really superb musicians to arrange them and play them!
Thank you very very much! I think I lived in those years.
Me too ;)
Me encanta todo lo que tiene más de 50 años de antigüedad. Me siento menos solo, encontrar personas que se sientan tan identificados con estas piezas añejas. :)
Esto es música ritmo y melodía.
Igual yo.
You got me with 1920s and Paris. I'm in musical heaven.
Another fabulous set to listen to while I finish my work week at my desk! Thanks so much for posting all the wonderful music!
Thanks for listening
Tuba prominent. Sounds remastered. Excellent
Thank you Craig for the comment and for watching the channel.
Es una hermosa música nostálgica, que me remonta a imaginar cómo era esa época y me hace soñar. Música muy nostálgica , un gran acierto su publicación, mil gracias dios los bendiga.
Que bom que você gostou da música e obrigado por assistir o canal.
Super excellent with very good interesting photos
Glad to hear it and thank you.
even washing the dishes 💦
is a kind of fun 😅
while listening to THIS music 🎶
So do you know the singer and band leader Pat Hyde? I found one of her records and it's from 1935.
@@pax41
Pat Hyde?
never heard of her
just as Hildegard...
So you do know Hildegard? She is one of my favorites.
I get very emotional listening to these beautiful melodies. It's as if I had lived through that time ... it makes me so happy! 🤩🎶💕🤗
Hello
Hello Soleil.....
Hello beautiful, how are you?
Lovely easy listening. How do youngsters keep cheerful with today's pop? Thank you.
Thanks for listening
I always loved the background music of the "Little Rascals" (this stuff).
Yeah, me too!!!
Once in a while you run into something delightful on TH-cam. Great visuals with the music. Thank you for preserving historical heritage.
Thank you Malcolm for the compliment and for being a subscriber to the channel.
Thanks for your DEDICATION and free speech.....yeah great time capsule........ you rock 💥💥💥👍👍👍
Welcome Bravo 556 and thank you for watching and subscribing to the channel.
Hello, you fellow travellers of the post 20's era who yearn for the music and culture of the 20s. Everything about it, except the poverty, fills a huge cavity in my present existence; the joyfulness, the rhythmic, melodious music, the sheer happiness lifts my spirits to the highest possible level. Oh, transport me to the world of my dreams. Please,please, just for a day.
True, skip the poverty. Also, seams in ladie's stockings. lol
@@cathieshie5005 lol
A nice dose of beautiful music in February.
Thank you Larry for your generous donation to the channel. Some of the February posts the others will enjoy are due to your support of this channel. Thank you again!😊🙂
Temuco Chile yo naci en 1970 pero me gusta esta musica la ropa autos y relojes de esa época
Me too!! 😊✨
Same bro
Yo también soy igual y solo unos 6 años mayor que tú. Tengo muchos muebles antiguos en mi casa. Gracias por mirar el canal.
I use this as a soundtrack for literally everything. Just try, open a random youtube video, mute it, and open this in another tab with the audio on. It's perfect 100% of times.
i love this music ..wish I could have lived in that era the 20's very romantic..sincere and lovely💗🌞⭐🌙🌴💐🌷🌹🍸💃👠💄💋💗
and deadly
You're living in the 20's right now!
Glad you love the music Linda. I think the 20's would be a great time to visit but we do have some amenities today that I would surely miss. You have to remember that by the end of the 1920's only about 65% of homes in the US had basics like electricity. Having a phone in your home was even much less common than having electricity. Let's not forget about modern medicine, there have been many advancements made since this time, antibiotics for one.
I wonder how many lives I have lived to feel nostalgic for some bygone times.. and the roaring 20's being one.... lovely!
Me too. others say the same thing. I feel like I had a wonderful time strangely, but 30s 40s brings great sadness for some reason.
Thanks for this. I love this style and time. Muy peppy!
Glad you like it Mary.
Hello Mary....
Quietly playing in the background, this is so relaxing to listen to!
Superb collection. Thank you so much.
Welcome Cate and thank you for watching the channel.
"I wanna be loved by you" that Marilyn Monroe sang in" Some Like It Hot" the movie was set in the 1920's. This the original song from 20's . Love it ! ❤️
The vocal in this recording seems to be by Vaughn DeLeith, popular recording star of the late 1920s
Adoro esta musica Tiene melodia ritmo y armonia
Wow! People back then must of been like, really happy!
Roaring '20's! Then out of work '30's.
Yeah , they were until 1929 and the bottom fell out of the stock market and the depression hit . after the slaughter of The Great War was over in 1918 people just wanted to live and forget about all the horror .
About ten years ago I bought a cd with music of the 1920s and 30s which contains some of the tracks published here. I really like it. Each decade has its good and not so good things, except for the music you hear today,which is almost entirely rubbish.
Yes, right through the 1990s there was fairly good composition - now its just mfg. trash.
aa the good old days, still remember when it came out lol
*_Hello 2020 !_*
I listen to this whilst playing triple solitaire. Sheer bliss. Try it. Regards from "Locked Down England" March 2021.
Glad the music can bring some pleasure Ronald and thanks for watching the channel.
Straordinaria eccellenza..2023
And 2024!
great music. have a great affinity for the roaring 20s even though I was born in 1960s!
Same here John!
Love 1920's music!!