1920: Even Water's Getting Weaker

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Archeophone
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 656605911823
EAN: 0656605911823
ASIN: B0002ELWQ0

Release Date: 2004-06-08

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Tracks:

I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now (Al Jolson)
Wait Till You Get Them Up in the Air, Boys (Billy Murray)
Dardanella (Selvin's Novelty Orchestra)
The Moon Shines on the Moonshine (Bert Williams)
Let the Rest of the World Go By (Elizabeth Spencer and Charles Hart)
The Love Nest (Art Hickman's Orchestra)
When My Baby Smiles at Me (Ted Lewis Jazz Band)
Left All Alone Again Blues (Marion Harris)
All the Boys Love Mary (Van and Schenck)
Alice Blue Gown (Edith Day)
Yellow Dog Blues (Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra)
Swanee (Al Jolson)
Hold Me (Art Hickman's Orchestra)
Prohibition Blues (Nora Bayes)
Whispering (Paul Whiteman and His Ambassador Orchestra)
Rose of Washington Square (Kentucky Serenaders)
You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet (Al Jolson)
The Love Nest (John Steel)
I'll See You in C-u-b-a (Billy Murray)
I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time (Charles Harrison)
Tell Me Little Gypsy (Art Hickman's Orchestra)
You'd Be Surprised (Eddie Cantor)
The "St. Louis Blues" (Marion Harris)
Chile Bean (Paul Biese Trio with Frank Crumit)
The Japanese Sandman (Paul Whiteman and His Ambassador Orchestra)

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Customer Reviews:

Great cd.......2006-04-16

There are a lot of great songs on this cd, as with the whole phonographic yearbook series, they take the most successful tunes of the year, and giv eyou the original recording. takes you back doesnt it? I own this, and also I own 1907, 1908, 1912. Great stuff from billy murray etc. IF you like vintage music, gotta try this series.

A fine entry in a fine series.......2004-11-27

It is all very well to read books about the old time songs and those who sang them and quite another actually to hear them being sung. Then twice blessed are the smaller labels that can take chances and issue CDs that are targeted to small but appreciative audiences. Such a label is Archeophone with their Phonographic Yearbook series, of which I already have "1890s, Vol. 1 and 2," "1922," and now "1920: Even Water's Getting Weaker" (ARCH 9001A).

Here we have 24 tracks of recordings that appeared in 1919 and 1920. You will find such titles as "The Love Nest" (used by Burns & Allen as their theme), "When My Baby Smiles at Me," "Swanee," "Prohibition Blues," "Whispering," and "Rose of Washington Square." And you hear Paul Whiteman and his Ambassador Orchestra, Art Hickman's Orchestra, Al Jolson, Bert Williams, Edith Day, and Eddie Cantor, among others. Space limitations make it impossible for me to list them all-but they all are wonderful.

The booklet gives you a good background of the times, notes on each selection, and some wonderful photos of exploding beer barrels and the singers that drank from those that got away. Yes, there will be offensive racial references; but we cannot ignore the shameful part of our history without doing a 1984-type rewrite on it. Grab this one and the others.

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