{"id":824,"date":"2024-01-16T19:09:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T00:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=824"},"modified":"2024-01-16T19:09:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T00:09:51","slug":"felix-the-cat-paul-whiteman-orchestra-1928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2024\/01\/16\/felix-the-cat-paul-whiteman-orchestra-1928\/","title":{"rendered":"“Felix The Cat” Paul Whiteman Orchestra 1928"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Felix The Cat”
\nPaul Whiteman And His Orchestra; Austin Young, vocal
\n(Columbia 1478 D mx 146334)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 May 25, 1928<\/p>\n

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Here’s a cute recording that I had been wanting to add to Radio Dismuke’s playlist for a while and found in the late Eddie Mitchell’s record collection<\/a>.\u00a0 The song was inspired by the Felix The Cat<\/em> animated cartoons that were played before the main feature in 1920s-era movie theaters.<\/p>\n

This was recorded the same month that Paul Whiteman switched his recording affiliation from Victor to Columbia.\u00a0 Luring away one of arch-rival Victor’s top artists was a big coup for Columbia which went all-out in terms of publicity.\u00a0 This included creating a colorful new label specifically for Paul Whiteman’s records.\u00a0 Collectors refer to this label as the “potato head label,” a reference to its caricature of Whiteman’s face.<\/p>\n

At 1:36 into the recording, you can hear the first of two solo passages by cornetist Bix Beiderbecke<\/a>.\u00a0 Immediately after the vocal, you can hear a solo by Frankie Trumbauer<\/a> playing the C-melody saxophone<\/a>.\u00a0 During this period the Whiteman band had about 26 musicians, not counting its vocal artists – large even for the era.<\/p>\n

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  “Felix The Cat” Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra; Austin Young, vocal (Columbia 1478 D mx 146334)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 May 25, 1928   Here’s a cute recording that I had been wanting to add to Radio Dismuke’s playlist … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":115,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","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\/824","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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}