Roaring 20s: Nat Shilkret & His Orchestra - Dusky Stevedore, 1928

[1920sbuff]

Shilkret outstanding as ever!

[altobiotero]

Great tribute ...

[munecojim]

The music was great....I wanted to get up and dance....but my lazy butt didn't. LOL

[240252]

@munecojim I'm not surprised. The music is enchanting and so spirited, indeed. You can easily see, the author is the one who composed "Travlin' All Alone" and Bessie Smith's "Empty Bed Blues".

[grofuss88]

Last time my wife and I got up to dance to this, was the last time I saw my beloved Gladys alive. She collapsed on the floor and died of a heart attack. Sad memories for me but beautiful music to cry to.

[BognarLJ]

Great song and pics

[240252]

@BognarLJ Yes, it's the past world of the "sweat on your brow" and the "stiff muscles" after your hard work day. Nowadays, only your eyes can be tired after a dozen of the sit hours by your PC, or your brain cells from inventing the new ways of obtaining your tax credits

[jozefsterkens2]

the best of the best!

[bill3murr]

i love the arrangement and shilkret's orch. there is a real emphasis on the bass in this record; i have noticed when i play my copy how it moves the whole orchestra along. the idea that heavy manual labor is paradise is a bit much and dusky puts the whole concept in the racist camp...another time and place then... the times hopefully have changed in that respect, but having said that, the photos and the instrumental part are terrific. thanks for sharing.

[240252]

@bill3murr It's puzzling, indeed, how the idea of a "happy worker" who "doesn't mind his sweat" and does his work singing, was widespread in the marxist countries. Russia in 1930s was full of such propaganda songs (certainly, not so well arranged!), also in Poland in dark stalinist years 1947-55 a popular music was full of working class girls singing and driving their tractors while the boys answered them from their scaffoldings in a happy unison of bricklayers

[Corrie121]

Great post ! Wonderful music and pics.

Thank you for sharing.

[240252]

@Corrie121 It's one ofthe best and the hottest recordings of Nat Shilkret's band, indeed. THank you!

[jozefsterkens2]

@240252 Indeed the best!!!!!

[240252]

@jozefsterkens2 Welcome, Old Friend!!! We missed you here! Thanks for your comment :-))

[barbcard]

Shines through the late afternoon dusk. Ah, where have all the stevedores gone now that I need them? Probably jazzing up their power boats.

[240252]

@barbcard I remamber stevedores from 1960s in the port of Bydgoszcz, when the river was simply covered with barges, tugs and smaller motor wessels of all kinds - remnants on inland waterway transport system of prewar Poland. Then, in "happy 1970s" when Breshnev and Ford did nothing but embracing and kissing each other and loans from the West poured Poland in process of building a "modern socialism" with a"human face", the port was cleaned off these "capitalist residues".