{"id":370,"date":"2021-10-20T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=370"},"modified":"2021-10-20T13:33:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T18:33:28","slug":"radio-dismuke-new-selections-10-21-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2021\/10\/20\/radio-dismuke-new-selections-10-21-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Dismuke &#8211; New Selections 10\/21\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-373 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-21-21Update.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Twelve 78 rpm audio restorations are being added to <a href=\"https:\/\/RadioDismuke.com\">Radio Dimuke\u2019s<\/a> music library this week and will begin airing on Thursday. Below are a few highlights.<\/span><\/p>\n<table class=\" alignright\" width=\"636\" style=\"height: 616px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 143px;\">\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2ebeb; width: 638px; height: 143px; text-align: left; padding-left: 80px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">&#8220;Lingering Lips&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Clicquot Club Eskimos<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">December 24, 1925 (Columbia 544 D mx 14135)<\/span><br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-370-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cliquot-Club-Eskimos-Lingering-Lips.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cliquot-Club-Eskimos-Lingering-Lips.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cliquot-Club-Eskimos-Lingering-Lips.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 13px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 638px; height: 13px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 143px;\">\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2ebeb; width: 638px; height: 143px; padding-left: 80px;\">&#8220;Happy Days Are Here Again&#8221;<br \/>\nJack Payne And His BBC Dance Orchestra; Jack Payne, vocal<br \/>\nMarch 1, 1930 (Columbia CB-9 mx A 10020)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-370-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jack-Payne-And-His-BBC-Dance-Orchestra-Happy-Days-Are-Here-Again.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jack-Payne-And-His-BBC-Dance-Orchestra-Happy-Days-Are-Here-Again.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jack-Payne-And-His-BBC-Dance-Orchestra-Happy-Days-Are-Here-Again.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 13px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 638px; height: 13px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 143px;\">\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2ebeb; width: 638px; height: 143px; padding-left: 80px;\">&#8220;23 1\/2 Hours&#8217; Leave Selection&#8221;<br \/>\nCarroll Gibbons And His Boy Friends<br \/>\ncirca early May 1937 (Columbia FB 1697 mx CA 16364)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-370-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Carroll-Gibbons-His-Boy-Friends-Twenty-Three-And-A-Half-Hours-Leave-Selections.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Carroll-Gibbons-His-Boy-Friends-Twenty-Three-And-A-Half-Hours-Leave-Selections.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Carroll-Gibbons-His-Boy-Friends-Twenty-Three-And-A-Half-Hours-Leave-Selections.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 13px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 638px; height: 13px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46.5px;\">\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2ebeb; width: 638px; height: 143px; padding-left: 80px;\">&#8220;Copenhagen&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Benson Orchestra of Chicago<br \/>\nSeptember 8, 1924 (Victor 19470-A)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-370-4\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Benson-Orchestra-Of-Chicago-Copenhagen.mp3?_=4\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Benson-Orchestra-Of-Chicago-Copenhagen.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Benson-Orchestra-Of-Chicago-Copenhagen.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&#8220;Lingering Lips&#8221; provides an excellent showcase for the talents of 1920s banjo virtuoso and bandleader <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Reser\">Harry Reser<\/a>.\u00a0 The Clicquot Club Eskimos was one of several names that his band performed under. Beginning in 1923 the band became the centerpiece of the pioneering radio program<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Clicquot_Club_Eskimos\"> <em>The Clicquot Club Eskimos<\/em><\/a> sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clicquot_Club_Company\">Clicquot Club Company\u00a0<\/a>which produced a popular line of carbonated beverages.\u00a0 The company&#8217;s advertising mascot was a cartoon Eskimo boy named Kleek-O.\u00a0 Reser&#8217;s band carried the Eskimo theme into their broadcasts and some of their recordings by incorporating sleigh bells and even barking dogs into the intros of their songs.\u00a0 This recording features the sleigh bells at the very beginning and end.\u00a0 Clicquot Club wanted the music on their radio program to sound as &#8220;sparkling&#8221; as their beverages.\u00a0 Between Harry Reser&#8217;s banjo and the wonderful clarity of Columbia&#8217;s still-new &#8220;Viva Tonal&#8221; electrical recording process, this recording definitely sparkles.\u00a0 \u00a0And given that it was recorded on Christmas Eve, the Eskimo-themed sleigh bells seem doubly appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy Days Are Here Again&#8221; is a song most people today are familiar with as a result of Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously using it as his 1932 campaign theme song.\u00a0 The song, however, dates to 1929 when it was composed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milton_Ager\">Milton Ager<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Yellen\">Jack Yellen<\/a> for an M.G.M. musical film <em>Road Show<\/em>. After M.G.M. canceled work on the film, Ager and Yellen had the song published and it subsequently caught the attention of prominent bandleaders such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Bernie\">Ben Bernie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Olsen\">George Olsen<\/a> who performed it during their network radio broadcasts. The song&#8217;s enthusiastic public reception motivated M.G.M. to revive work on the film which was edited to showcase the song. It was eventually released to theaters in February 1930 under a new title, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chasing_Rainbows_(1930_film)\"><em>Chasing Rainbows<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The song, with very different lyrics, also became a hit in late Weimar-era Germany under the title &#8220;<em>Wochenend und Sonnenschein<\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;Weekend and Sunshine.&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;23 1\/2 Hours&#8217; Leave Selection&#8221; features songs from the 1937 film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0028540\/\">23 1\/2 Hours&#8217; Leave<\/a>, <\/em>a remake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0009855\/\">a 1919 silent film of the same name<\/a>.\u00a0 Bandleader <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carroll_Gibbons\">Carroll Gibbon&#8217;s<\/a> main band was the Savoy Hotel Orpheans which, for many years, was the resident band at London&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Savoy_Hotel\">Savoy Hotel<\/a>.\u00a0 But he also had a smaller ensemble emphasizing his piano playing that made recordings and appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_Luxembourg\">Radio Luxemburg<\/a> broadcasts under the name Carroll Gibbons And His Boy Friends.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Copenhagen&#8221; was named not after the Danish city but the brand of chewing tobacco.\u00a0 The first recording of the song was on<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gennett_Records\"> Gennett<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wolverines_(jazz_band)\">The Wolverines<\/a> and featured a solo by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bix_Beiderbecke\">Bix Beiderbecke<\/a>.\u00a0 This version on Victor by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benson_Orchestra_of_Chicago\">Benson Orchestra of Chicago<\/a> doesn&#8217;t feature Bix but is still plenty jazzy. In 1924 recordings were still made through acoustic recording horns. It wasn&#8217;t until five months later in February 1925 that Victor held its first recording session that made use of the microphone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Twelve 78 rpm audio restorations are being added to Radio Dimuke\u2019s music library this week and will begin airing on Thursday. Below are a few highlights. &#8220;Lingering Lips&#8221; Clicquot Club Eskimos December 24, 1925 (Columbia 544 D mx 14135) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2021\/10\/20\/radio-dismuke-new-selections-10-21-21\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":32,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","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\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}