In commemoration of Women's History Month 2023 Joe explores some of the great Lady Blues Singers of the pre-war era - Keechie Wiley, Bessie Smith , Memphis Minnie and many suprizes ! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
In commemoration of Women's History Month 2023 American Grooves presents three programs focusing on Women's contributions to pre-war pop, jazz country and blues. Episode one of this mini-series focuses on some of the great unsung pop vocalists of the mid-1920s-1930s Ruth Etting, Annette Hanshaw and a slew of surprises ! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
FROM RARE RECORDINGS OF DUKE ELLINGTON'S COTTON CLUB BAND, FLETCHER HENDERSON AND LUIS RUSSELL TO EARLY BLACK BROADWAY PIONEERS WILLIAMS AND WALKER JOIN UA FOR PART TWO OF OUR CELEBRATION OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
IN COMMEMORATION OF WOMEN' HISTORY MONTH WE PRESENT A PROGRAM FEATURING SOME OF THE 1920S-30S FINEST JAZZ/DANCE BANDS LED BY LADY BAND LEADERS - BLANCHE CALLOWAY & HER JOY BOYS, INA RAY HUTTON BAND, CLEO BROWN, THELMA TERRY AND MORE . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
THERE WERE MANY SMALL INDEPENDENT RECORD LABELS COMPETING WITH THE BIG 5 ( COLUMBIA, VICTOR, BRUNSWICK, VOCALION & OKEH) BACK IN THE 1920S. GREY GULL RECORDS AND ITS' ASSOCIATED LABELS ( RADIEX, VAN DYKE, SUNRISE AND OTHERS) WERE BY FAR THE LEASE EXPENSIVE ( 25 CENTS) AND WORSE SOUNDING ( BEING PRESSED WITH A THIN SHELLAC COMPOUND LIKELY INCORPORATING SAND AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE!) - GREY GULL EMPLOYED A "HOUSE" BACKING BAND MADE UP OF SOME FINE MUSICIANS ( Mike Mosiello TRUMPET, Charlie But...
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Part 1 (1901-1925) - From Williams & Walker to stride piano mastermind James P. Johnson we will attempt to scratch the surface of that iconic uptown cultural explosion .... The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. We will explore some of it's earliest roots with rare recordings b...
Joe plays some of his favorite Blues, Jazz and Country tunes about REQUITED love! From Miss Lee Morse's lovely version of SIDE BY SIDE ( 1926) to Cliff "Ukulele" Ike's OLD FASHIONED LOVE ( 1934), Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers and so much more - --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
The "Johnny B. Good" of jazz tunes! TIGER RAG has it's origins in Victorian era French Folk Music - hear how it started and how it was played by everyone from ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JASS BAND, JELLY ROLL MORTON to THE MILLS BROTHERS and many more! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
What was BLUE BLOWING ? it was human beings imitating jazz horns and banjos with just their mouths! - From guitarist Eddie Lang's first recordings with THE MOUND CITY BLUE BLOWERS ( 1924!), THE MILLS BROTHERS, to UKULELE IKE and a slew of now obscure artists hear how HOT blue blowing could be- a lost art of early jazz! - --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
From 1928-1933 Victor Records (then in 1931 RCA Victor) produced a series of Blues, Jug Band, Gospel, Jazz. Skiffle and Sermon recordings specifically marketed to African American record buyers..and some hip hot jazz loving white folks!...Icons such as Memphis Jug Band, Blind Willie McTell, Fury Lewis, Tommy Johnson, Duke Ellington, Bennie Moten and Jelly Roll Morton were released on Victors special RACE "38,000" numerical series. Join us for part two of our exploration of the vintage 1928-33 Vi...
Joe plays some of his favorite pre-1935 hot jazz, blues and folk sides as well as a study of the 1921 tin pan alley tune THERE'LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE - great versions by Ethel Waters, Sophie Tucker, Eddie & Sugar Lou's Hotel Tyler Orchestra, Red Mckenzie and others are played! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
American Grooves Radio Hour pays homage in song to the butcher, bakers and candlestick makers of pre-1940 American Song - From the obscure Vance Dixon & His Pencil's 1932 PETE THE DEALER IN MEAT to GROCERIES ON THE SHELF by blues gal Lucille Bogan we will be playing all of the grocery store hits and more --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
A new batch of pre-1940 Yuletide rarities and more to help you celebrate a shellac-centric Christmas! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
From 1928 - 1933 RCA VICTOR RECORDS had a record series specifically marketed to African American record buyers. It flourished until the ravages of the Great Depression put an enormous hurt on the record business in general and the buyers of "race" records in particular. Hear a variety of the Hot Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Jug Bands, Comedy and Sermons released by VICTOR for Americas' black population! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
Songs of turkeys, good eats and THANKSGIVING as recorded by the pilgrims and pioneers of pre-1940 American Music! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
THE ALL PLAYED THE PALACE! Vaudeville on record - New York's PALACE THEATER was the mecca of the "two a day" Vaudeville circuit from 1912 when it opened until the early 1930s' when vaudeville fell out of favor. We will play rare recordings of well known artists such as SOPHIE TUCKER and many great artists now lost to the ages such as WILLIE & EUGENE HOWARD, WEBER & FIELDS, DAVE APOLLON and BELLE BAKER (billed as The Female Jolson!)and more Tunes in! --- Support this podcast: https://podc...
Born in Philadelphia in 1902 Eddie Lang switched from banjo to guitar in the mid 1920s and virtually wrote the book on how the instrument should be played in Jazz. We will play some early Lang solo recordings, his corner stone recordings with childhood pal JOE VENUTI, duets with LONNIE JOHNSON , and some of his brilliant accompaniments with pop singers and orchestras of the day . Tunes in! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
Just in time for Halloween listen to an amazing array of SPOOKY 1920s Jazz and Blues recordings from the Rube Bloom Bayou Boys MYSTERIOUS MOSE, Bessie Smith's THEM's GRAVEYARD WORDS, Lonnie Johnson's BLUE GHOST to Reverend Gates getting into a frenzy about THE DEVIL IN A FLYING MACHINE! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Born the son of a Cantor in Buffalo New York (1904) Arlen ( Hyman Arluck!) took a path to Jazz playing in local bands that eventually landed him in New York ( 1926) where he honed his song writing skills. This show will focus on Arlen's pre-Hollywood years ( 1925-33) when he kept busy writing songs for musical reviews, singing with dance bands writing songs for films, and in 1931-33 for the legendary COTTON CLUB PARADES. Tunes in! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show...
American Ragtime and then Jazz showed up in England and Europe almost at it's inception in the 1890s-1910s - On this episode you will hear recordings by American ex-patriots and some of the pioneering European "Jazz Bands" that flourished in Europe during the music's early years 1916-1939. Included is FRED ELIZALDE, THE VERSATILE FOUR, ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JASS BAND, LE FRENCH HOT BOYS and more Tunes in! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/suppor...
From 1917 to 1934 Gennett Records, a small, family owned record label out of Richmond, Indiana recorded some of the earliest, most eclectic and most curious mid-west and east coast jazz- From the first recordings of LOUIS ARMSTRONG, KING OLIVER, BIX BEIDERBECKE , HOAGY CARMICHAEL and JELLY ROLL MORTON to obscure "territory" bands such as ZACK WHYTE & HIS CHOCOLATE BEAU BRUMMEL'S, SYD VALENTINE & HIS PATENT LEATHER KIDS and THE BLACKBIRDS OF PARADISE , Gennett recorded it ALL - and preser...
THIS SPECIAL GEORGE GERSHWIN EPISODE, IN COMMEMORATION OF HIS SEPT 26TH BIRTHDAY ( 1898!), WILL PRESENT RARE RECORDINGS OF GEORGE HIMSELF ON THE PIANO - PLAYING SOLO, ACCOMPANYING FRED & ADELE ASTAIRE ( 1926), AND WITH THE PAUL WHITEMAN ORCHESTRA ( 1927) AS WELL AS EARLY VERSIONS OF MANY PRE-1934 RECORDED GERSHWIN CLASSICS --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
VOLUME FOUR OF OUR ONGOING TRIBUTE TO THE LATE RICH CONATY AND HIS "BIG BROADCAST" PROGRAM OUT OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY THAT FOR FOUR DECADES BROUGHT THE GREAT, JAZZ, DANCE AND PERSONALITY RECORDINGS OF THE PRE-WW2 ERA TO THE AIR . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
MANY HOLLYWOOD STARS FROM THE ERA 192OS-30'S EITHER BEGAN AS BAND LEADERS, CROONERS AND BLUES SINGERS OR BECAMES ONES AFTER THEIR FAME ARRIVED - HEAR SOME RARE RECORDINGS BY JIMMY STEWART ( WITH THE HOT PRINCETON BAND IN 1932!), MEL FERRAR ( LEADING THE PRINCETON BAND IN 1932!), PHIL HARRIS AT THE COCOANUT GROVE, BING CROSBY GETTING HOT WITH THE MILLS BROTHERS, DICK POWELL PLAYING BANJO WITH THE CHARLIE DAVIS BAND IN MINNEAPOLIS IN 1928 AND MANY OTHER SURPRISES! --- Support this podcast: https:/...
In the pre-television and internet world people were more accustomed to entertaining each other live and in person than they are these days - in rural areas MUSIC reigned supreme handed down from neighbor to family member - there were countless little bands made up of family members...FAMILY BANDS if you will and quite a few were recorded for regional release by record companies scouring the wilds for anything musical that could possibly sell a few 100 dicks or more! - This episode will present ...
Part 2 of our deep dive into the life and music of Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (later Morton; c. September 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton. Rare recordings and stories told by the man himself to a young Alan Lomax in 1938. and a special cameo by Papa Lee himself!! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support...
The life and music of Ferd "Jelly Roll" Morton - from recordings from 1923-40 to anecdotes told by Mr. Jelly himself! Show 1 or 3! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
Part one of a series of American Grooves Radio Hours dedicated to the memory of Rich Conaty - long time host of New Yorks' longest running radio program dedicated to the jazz, and pop music if the 1920s-mid-1930s - Each episode will play the type of 78s that Conaty cherished ( and played) on his program - From ealry Bing, Boswell Sisters, Paul Whiteman, Cab Calloway, Annette Hanshaw, Fletcher Henderson, Mills Brothers, Baby Rosemarie, Bennie Moten, Gus Arnheim, The Rhythm Boys and so many more! ...
Besides the usual assortment of killer pre-1936 jazz, blues and country this episodes explores the great W.C. Handy tune and offers several interesting versions --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
THE JAZZ FIDDLER! - some of the hottest and earliest recordings of fiddle jazz. From Joe Venuti, Eddie South , Stuff Smith , Emilio Caseres to the Mississippi Sheiks! From 1926-38! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-grooves-hour/support
