{"id":555,"date":"2022-02-02T22:38:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T03:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=555"},"modified":"2022-02-02T23:53:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T04:53:33","slug":"radio-dismuke-new-selections-2-2-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2022\/02\/02\/radio-dismuke-new-selections-2-2-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Dismuke &#8211; New Selections 2\/2\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shellworld.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"653\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-557 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shellworld.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shellworld-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sampling of some of the <span>78 rpm audio restorations that were added to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/radiodismuke.com\/\">Radio Dimuke\u2019s<\/a><span> music library this week and which began airing on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 629px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 13.5px;\">\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2ebeb; padding-left: 40px; height: 13.5px; width: 628px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;By A Lazy Country Lane&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Ted Wallace &amp; His Campus Boys<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">March 18, 1931 (Columbia 2441 D mx 151434)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-555-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ted-Wallace-His-Campus-Boys-By-A-Lazy-Country-Lane.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ted-Wallace-His-Campus-Boys-By-A-Lazy-Country-Lane.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ted-Wallace-His-Campus-Boys-By-A-Lazy-Country-Lane.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"padding-left: 40px; height: 13px;\">\n<td style=\"padding-left: 40px; 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;\">&#8220;Warum lachelst Du Mona Lisa&#8221;<br \/>\nPolydor Tanz-Orchester; Marcel Klass, vocal<br \/>\n1931\u00a0 (Polydor 24131 mx 40987)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-555-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Polydor-Tanz-Orchester-Warum-lachelst-Du-Mona-Lisa-aus-dem-Tonfilm-Der-Raub-der-Mona-Lisa.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Polydor-Tanz-Orchester-Warum-lachelst-Du-Mona-Lisa-aus-dem-Tonfilm-Der-Raub-der-Mona-Lisa.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Polydor-Tanz-Orchester-Warum-lachelst-Du-Mona-Lisa-aus-dem-Tonfilm-Der-Raub-der-Mona-Lisa.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"padding-left: 40px; height: 1px;\">\n<td style=\"padding-left: 40px; height: 1px; width: 628px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 60px;\">\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2ebeb; padding-left: 40px; height: 60px; width: 628px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;My Sunshine Is You'&#8221;<br \/>\nJack Hylton And His Orchestra; Richard Crooks, vocal<br \/>\nNovember 11, 1931 (Victor 36048 B)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-555-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Jack-Hylton-And-His-Orchestra-My-Sunshine-Is-You.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Jack-Hylton-And-His-Orchestra-My-Sunshine-Is-You.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Jack-Hylton-And-His-Orchestra-My-Sunshine-Is-You.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;\">&#8220;You&#8217;re All I Need&#8221;<br \/>\nSmith Ballew And His Orchestra; Smith Ballew, vocal<br \/>\nMay 7, 1935 (Conqueror 8528 A mx 17488)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-555-4\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Smith-Ballew-And-His-Orchestra-Youre-All-I-Need.mp3?_=4\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Smith-Ballew-And-His-Orchestra-Youre-All-I-Need.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Smith-Ballew-And-His-Orchestra-Youre-All-I-Need.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;\">&#8220;At Last I&#8217;m Happy&#8221;<br \/>\nTed Lewis And His Band; Ted Lewis, vocal<br \/>\nJanuary 12, 1931 (Columbia 2408 D mx 1151197)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-555-5\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ted-Lewis-And-His-Band-At-Last-Im-Happy.mp3?_=5\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ted-Lewis-And-His-Band-At-Last-Im-Happy.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ted-Lewis-And-His-Band-At-Last-Im-Happy.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;\">&#8220;Blue Again&#8221;<br \/>\nBenrus Radio Orchestra; Paul Small, vocal<br \/>\nJanuary 1930 (Hit Of The Week 1126)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-555-6\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Benruis-Radio-Orchestra-Blue-Again.mp3?_=6\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Benruis-Radio-Orchestra-Blue-Again.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Benruis-Radio-Orchestra-Blue-Again.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;\">&#8220;Teddy Bear Blues&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Virginians<br \/>\nNovember 17, 1922 (Victor 18992 A)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-555-7\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/The-Virginians-Teddy-Bear-Blues.mp3?_=7\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/The-Virginians-Teddy-Bear-Blues.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/The-Virginians-Teddy-Bear-Blues.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Our featured selections begin with a pleasant, upbeat version of <strong>&#8220;By A Lazy Country Lane&#8221;<\/strong> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Kirkeby\">Ed Kirkeby<\/a> band performing under the pseudonym of Ted Wallace and His Campus Boys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Warum lachelst Du Mona Lisa&#8221;<\/strong> is from the 1931 German film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Theft_of_the_Mona_Lisa\"><em>Der Raub der Mona Lisa (The Theft of the Mona Lisa)<\/em><\/a>. The song was written by the prolific Austrian composer and conductor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Stolz\">Robert Stolz<\/a>.\u00a0 The recording presented here is on a Polydor disc that does not provide credit for the vocalist. Through some online research, I have been able to determine that it was Marcel Klass as this recording is identical to the one issued on the Grammophon label by the Lajos Barany Tanz Orchester crediting Klass for the vocal.\u00a0 During this period Deutschen Grammophon used the Polydor label to issue records in countries outside of Germany where, for trademark reasons, it was unable to issue records under its own name.\u00a0 I have not been able to identify the actual band on this recording as &#8220;Lajos Barany&#8221; was a recording pseudonym that was used both by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Godwin\">Paul Godwin<\/a> and <span><a href=\"https:\/\/de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog\/wiki\/Ilja_Livschakoff?_x_tr_sl=de&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=sc\">Ilja Livschakoff<\/a> orchestras and possibly others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;My Sunshine Is You&#8221;<\/strong> is another Robert Stolz composition &#8211; a rather pretty tango written for the 1930 German film <span>\u00a0<\/span><i lang=\"de\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Tango_for_You\">Ein Tango f\u00fcr Dich\/A Tango For You<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>This 12-inch 78 rpm is one of a number of &#8220;concert arrangements&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Hylton\">Jack Hylton<\/a> Orchestra recorded that featured an enlarged orchestra and longer playing time than the band&#8217;s more typical dance band fare.\u00a0 While this recording was made in London, it features an American vocalist, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Crooks\">Richard Crooks<\/a> who was a star at New York&#8217;s Metropolitan Opera &#8211; though here he does not sing in an operatic style.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;You&#8217;re All I Need&#8221;<\/strong> is yet another song written by Austrian film composers, the team of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Jurmann\">Walter Jurmann<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bronis%C5%82aw_Kaper\">Bronis\u0142aw Kaper<\/a>.\u00a0 Jurmann already had hit songs to his credit and had worked with Kaper in Germany when the two were forced to flee in 1933 after the National Socialists came to power.\u00a0 \u00a0A year later they came to the United States after being offered a contract with the MGM film studio where they wrote songs for a number of successful films.\u00a0 This one comes from the 1935 film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Escapade_(1935_film)\"><em>Escapade<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Several bands recorded this song but I think the version here by the <a href=\"https:\/\/syncopatedtimes.com\/smith-ballew-1902-1984\/\">Smith Ballew<\/a> orchestra was the nicest &#8211; I especially enjoy the jazz violin passages after Ballew&#8217;s vocal.\u00a0 This recording is from the final months of Ballew&#8217;s career as a bandleader before he moved Hollywood where he starred in a number of singing cowboy Western films.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Lewis_(musician)\">Ted Lewis&#8217;<\/a> vocal and his band&#8217;s peppy arrangement on <strong>&#8220;At Last I&#8217;m Happy&#8221;<\/strong> transforms the song into a nice Depression-era &#8220;cheer up&#8221; style recording.<\/p>\n<p>This recording of <strong>&#8220;Blue Again&#8221;<\/strong> comes from a cardboard <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hit_of_the_Week_Records#:~:text=Hit%20of%20the%20Week%20was,instead%20of%20the%20usual%20shellac.\">Hit of the Week<\/a> record.\u00a0 The one-sided records were sold at newsstands and magazine counters and priced at 15 cents.\u00a0 The Benrus Radio Orchestra was a pseudonym for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_Lanin\">Sam Lanin<\/a> Orchestra.\u00a0 Benrus was, and still is, a brand of watches.\u00a0 My guess (and that is all it is) is that the pseudonym perhaps referred to a Benrus sponsored radio program for which Lanin might have provided the house band.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Teddy Bear Blues<\/strong>&#8221; is a recording I played a few weeks back on Radio Dismuke&#8217;s annual New Year&#8217;s broadcast as part of the program&#8217;s tribute to the 100th anniversary of the year 1922.\u00a0 This performance is by The Virginians, a small, hot jazz-oriented group comprised of musicians from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Whiteman\">Paul Whiteman<\/a> orchestra.\u00a0 This performance was captured through an acoustical horn as the use of microphones for recording was still a little over two years into the future.\u00a0 But, despite the primitive technology, this performance holds up remarkably well 100 years later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Here is a sampling of some of the 78 rpm audio restorations that were added to Radio Dimuke\u2019s music library this week and which began airing on Wednesday. &nbsp; &#8220;By A Lazy Country Lane&#8221; Ted Wallace &amp; His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2022\/02\/02\/radio-dismuke-new-selections-2-2-22\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":82,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","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\/555","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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}