Tag Archives: 1920s – 1930s

Among the legendary unrelated Smith performers from the 1920s, Clara Smith was never on Bessie’s level or seeing that significant seeing that Mamie but she had something of her own to provide. She began focusing on the theater circuit and in vaudeville around 1910, learning her build during the following …

Ishman Bracey (specific 78 rpm record brands are incorrectly spelled “Ishmon,” which has carried more than in some resources) was an early on amount in Mississippi Delta blues and a co-employee of vocalist Tommy Johnson. Bracey discovered electric guitar from “Mississippi” Ruben Lacy, and beginning within the 1910s he performed …

Bix Beiderbecke was one of the biggest jazz musicians from the 1920s. His colourful lifestyle, quick rise and fall, and eventual position being a martyr produced him a tale also before he passed away, and he provides lengthy stood as evidence that not absolutely all the innovators in jazz background …

Jack Pettis, an early on pre-swing jazz pioneer, became a secret when he dropped from the music world in 1940 and had not been heard from once again. His inevitable loss of life went undetected and there is nothing known about his later on life despite intensive study by many …

Vocalist Ivy Smith is at a favorite vaudeville and saving duo with pianist Cow Cow Davenport in the later 1920s. The cooperation started in 1927, when Smith became Davenport’s second vocalist, pursuing Dora Carr. Smith ceased documenting with Davenport in 1930.

J. Fred Coots may be the pop composer in charge of “Santa Claus Is usually Coming to City” and several other hits from the past due ’20s and ’30s. In the next decades, his tracks were regularly revived by famous brands Dinah Shoreline, Frank Sinatra, Doris Time, and more. Delivered …

Clarinet participant and bandleader Boyd Senter’s orchestra provided the very first musical wall plug for youthful trombone participant named Glenn Miller, in 1921, when Senter was just in his early 20s but still in Colorado. Senter continued to become billed because the “Jazzologist Supreme” and finally perfected the saxophones, trumpet, …

Charlie Poole & the NEW YORK Ramblers were probably one of the most popular string rings from the 1920s. If indeed they didn’t possess the foot-stomping exuberance of the chief rivals, Georgia’s Skillet Lickers, they provided a debonair accuracy which was similarly infectious. Infused with ragtime and pop, their music …

The term “hokum” is thought to possess descended through the English term “hokey-pokey,” denoting both ridicule as well as the ridiculous; for greater than a hundred years “hokey-pokey” in addition has been utilized, on both edges from the Atlantic, to spell it out low-grade snow cream offered on the roads. …

This pianist was an accompanist on a huge selection of blues records within the 30s, mainly for Bluebird, backing ‘Big’ Expenses Broonzy, Jazz Gillum, Tampa Red, Lil Johnson, Washboard Sam and many more. His identification was the main topic of many years of speculation, for this seemed absurd the possessor …