Tag Archives: 1910s – 1930s

Ideal remembered for “Zing! Went the Strings of My Center,” Adam F. Hanley was an archetypal Tin Skillet Alley professional who constructed numerous music for stage and film, mainly through the early ’20s. Hanley was created Feb 17, 1892, in Renselaer, IN, and that could inform his initial main strike, …

Although today largely forgotten, the Coon-Sanders Night-Hawks were among the best big bands from the 1920s. Drummer Carleton Coon (created Feb 5, 1894, in Rochester, MN) and pianist/arranger Joe Sanders (created Oct 15, 1894, in Thayer, KS) fulfilled in Dec 1918 inside a Kansas Town music store. Both soon produced …

b. Clifford Albyn Perry, 3 Sept 1891, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Britain, d. 8 Dec 1937, London, Britain. An amazingly gifted performer, Cliff made an appearance many capacities in the theater. He performed a comedy function in London in His Small Widows (1919), nonetheless it was his dance that obtained most plaudits. …

Blind Blake is really a figure of tremendous importance in American music. Not merely was he one of the biggest blues guitarists of all-time, Blake appears to have been the principal builder of “finger-style” ragtime on your guitar, the six-string equal to playing ragtime over the piano. Blake learned this …

Ernesto Nazareth is among the most significant composers and music artists of Brazil’s “Belle Époque.” When he was created, the choro had been established as an authentic Brazilian musical creation, but wasn’t a genre however, rather a playing design for the Western dance items. Through those composers from the Belle …

Long from the music of Harry Ruby, lyricist Bert Kalmar helped put songs in to the mouths of such film comedy teams mainly because Wheeler & Woolsey as well as the Marx Brothers. Collectively Kalmar and Ruby authored many Broadway displays and helped provide some pretty illustrious musical skill towards …

Given birth to George Byron Harlan, this historic American vocalist experienced a big hunger not merely for music, but also for meals. Despite an action-packed single career that led to 130 sides around the Edison label only, the vocalist was better still known as 1 / 2 of Collins & …

Abe Schwartz was among the heroes of early 20th hundred years klezmer. His compositions consist of such classics as “Tants, Tants Yiddlekh,” “Di Bobe Ligt In Kempet (Grandma’s With Kid),” and “Dos Zekele Mit Koyln (THE TINY Handbag of Coals),” which he documented in 1919 with an orchestra and Yiddish …

Banter concerning historic pianists can eventually come around to Banta. The first American musician Frank Banta was among the nation’s first main recording artists. Through the start of recording, once the ongoing modification between piano rolls, cylinders, and primitive 78s produced the compact disk revolution from the ’80s look like …

Ideal remembered for “Zing! Went the Strings of My Center,” Wayne F. Hanley was an archetypal Tin Skillet Alley professional who made up numerous tracks for stage and film, mainly through the early ’20s. Hanley was created Feb 17, 1892, in Renselaer, IN, and that could inform his 1st main …