{"id":1997,"date":"2025-05-08T14:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2025-05-08T14:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:11:23","slug":"california-ramblers-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2025\/05\/08\/california-ramblers-1925\/","title":{"rendered":"California Ramblers &#8211; 1925"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Columbia527D.jpg\" alt=\"Columbia 527-D label image. &quot;Dreaming Of A Castle In The Air&quot; California Ramblers\" width=\"472\" height=\"467\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Columbia527D.jpg 472w, https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Columbia527D-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Background information about the recordings can be found below the audio selections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 31px;\">\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2ebeb; padding-left: 40px; height: 31px; width: 628px;\">\u201cDreaming Of A Castle In The Air\u201d<br \/>\nCalifornia Ramblers<br \/>\nDecember 4, 1925\u00a0 \u00a0 (Columbia 527 D mx 141352)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1997-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/California-Ramblers-Dreaming-Of-A-Castle-In-The-Air.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/California-Ramblers-Dreaming-Of-A-Castle-In-The-Air.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/California-Ramblers-Dreaming-Of-A-Castle-In-The-Air.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 13px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 13px; width: 628px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 31px;\">\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2ebeb; padding-left: 40px; height: 31px; width: 628px;\">\u201cSmile A Little Bit\u201d<br \/>\nCalifornia Ramblers<br \/>\nDecember 4, 1925\u00a0 \u00a0 (Columbia 527 D mx 141351)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1997-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/California-Ramblers-Smile-A-Little-Bit.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/California-Ramblers-Smile-A-Little-Bit.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/California-Ramblers-Smile-A-Little-Bit.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2024\/01\/10\/update-edward-mitchell-78-rpm-collection\/\">Edward Mitchell Collection<\/a>, here are two instrumental recordings by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_California_Ramblers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Ramblers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I find <em>\u201cDreaming Of A Castle In The Air\u201d<\/em> extremely charming.\u00a0 \u00a0The song&#8217;s composer is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Ward_(composer)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eddie Ward<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0My understanding is that another recording of the song, by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ray_Miller_(bandleader)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ray Miller<\/a> Orchestra, should also be in Eddie&#8217;s collection.\u00a0 Once I locate it, I will digitize it for inclusion in Radio Dismuke as well, and possibly include it in a future blog posting.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSmile A Little Bit\u201d<\/em> was composed by Bob Morton and Peggy Shevlin.\u00a0 I find the arrangement here to be rather haunting.<\/p>\n<p>As was often the case with popular songs during the era, most record labels issued at least one version of these songs.\u00a0 <em>\u201cDreaming Of A Castle In The Air\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 seems to have been especially well-received in Germany, where it was recorded by multiple artists under the title<em> &#8220;Mein Schlo\u00df im Mond&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; including a very nice vocal version by the Austrian tenor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Tauber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Tauber<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two 1925 recordings by the California Ramblers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2025\/05\/08\/california-ramblers-1925\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":79,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}