{"id":2227,"date":"2026-07-10T17:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:08:55","slug":"salt-and-pepper-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2026\/07\/10\/salt-and-pepper-1924\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt And Pepper &#8211; 1924"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SandPCameoRRomeo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"783\" height=\"907\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SandPCameoRRomeo.jpg 783w, https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SandPCameoRRomeo-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SandPCameoRRomeo-768x890.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/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;\"><strong>&#8220;Holdin&#8217; The Sack&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Salt And Pepper<\/strong><br \/>\nSeptember 18, 1924\u00a0 (Cameo 609 mx 1151)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2227-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Salt-And-Pepper-Holdin-The-Sack.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Salt-And-Pepper-Holdin-The-Sack.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Salt-And-Pepper-Holdin-The-Sack.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;\"><strong>&#8220;Doodle Doo Doo&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Salt And Pepper<\/strong><br \/>\nSeptember 18, 1924\u00a0 (Cameo 609 mx 1156)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2227-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Salt-And-Pepper-Doodle-Doo-Doo.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Salt-And-Pepper-Doodle-Doo-Doo.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Salt-And-Pepper-Doodle-Doo-Doo.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the many fads of American popular culture in the 1920s was the ukulele craze.\u00a0 The Hawaiian instrument captured public attention through performances of Hawaiian bands at the 1915 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panama%E2%80%93Pacific_International_Exposition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Panama\u2013Pacific International Exposition<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>By 1925, over four million ukuleles had been sold in the United States.\u00a0 On college campuses, the ukulele had become an important accessory and symbol of Jazz Age popular culture.<\/p>\n<p>The 1920s celebrity most associated with the craze was <a href=\"https:\/\/syncopatedtimes.com\/cliff-edwards-profiles-in-jazz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cliff &#8220;Ukulele Ike&#8221; Edwards<\/a>, whose recordings are well-represented in Radio Dismuke&#8217;s playlist.\u00a0 \u00a0Those less familiar with 1920s and 1930s popular music may know him as the voice of Jiminy Cricket, who famously sang \u201cWhen You Wish Upon a Star\u201d in Walt Disney&#8217;s 1940 film <em>Pinocchio<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two pre-microphone-era recordings by a lesser-known duo associated with the instrument&#8217;s popularity.\u00a0 <span>Frank Kurtz (Salt) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Pepper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Pepper <\/a><\/span>were famous on the vaudeville circuits and in Broadway musical revues for their comedic song and dance act, which featured singing and ukulele playing in a style similar to that of Cliff Edwards. \u00a0They also appeared on radio and recorded about ten sides on the low-priced Cameo label.<\/p>\n<p>After the duo broke up,\u00a0 Jack Pepper formed a new vaudeville act, Ginger and Pepper, with a young, then-unknown Texas dancer named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ginger_Rogers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ginger Rogers<\/a>. The two married in 1929 and divorced in 1931.<\/p>\n<p>On both of these recordings, you can hear the duo perform the high-pitched style of scat singing popularized by Cliff Edwards, which sounds reminiscent of a kazoo. The term for this vocal effect is eefing (also spelled eephing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;Holdin&#8217; The Sack&#8221; Salt And Pepper September 18, 1924\u00a0 (Cameo 609 mx 1151) &#8220;Doodle Doo Doo&#8221; Salt And Pepper September 18, 1924\u00a0 (Cameo 609 mx 1156) &nbsp; One of the many fads of American popular culture in the 1920s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2026\/07\/10\/salt-and-pepper-1924\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":74,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,87,86],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1920s","tag-jack-pepper","tag-salt-and-pepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","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=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}