The Brooklyn Cake Walk - played by German Orchestra, 1908

[UunoHikivuori12]

" Schorschl, ach kauf mir doch ein Automobil, / es kost' ja nicht viel von Hamburg nach Kiel. / Schorschl, ach kauf mir doch ein Automobil, / schnell mit mir hin nach Kiel. / Glaube, im Auto, da fährt es sich fein, / sage nicht nein, komm, steige ein. / Schorschl, ach fahr mit mir im Automobil, / von Hamburg bis nach Kiel! "

[durekatt]

When I was a kid my grandmother use to sing a little song on this melody, but with another text: (in norwegian) Sett deg oppi kørja´og la ballongen gå.." = "Jump into the basket, and let the balloon take off.."

[WWGMD]

@durekatt Det gjorde min mor også:) Når jeg tenker meg om, gjør hun det vel fortsatt.

[durekatt]

I have this record in my collection, the same recording, but on the "JUMBO-RECORD" label. ("Jumbo" was the cheaper version of the "FONOTIPIA-RECORD")

[tlatosmd]

Der Chor klingt wie heute aufgenommenes Gegröhle, das auf 8kHz reduziert und in das Instrumental eingefügt wurde. Selbst, wenn das echt ist, waren das definitiv keine professionellen Sänger!

[gdw1910]

This is Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906 I believe), not Brooklyn Cakewalk. The wrong titles were sometimes added to recordings by foreigners and folk musicians who didnt know the actual title.

[merrywriter1]

Fabulous editing - thanks Where on earth did you get all of it - must have taken years to collect. Or was it All in the Family?

[NoneSoPretty]

Loved your Victorian image of the Charles Dana Gibson couple cakewalking. Now that's a real American Gibson Girl. Can't you just see Jenny Churchill doing it to amaze London?

[Stompy23]

I have about 15 versions of this extraordinarily popular 1900s tune, but this one on Anker was totally new to me. Thanks for this post.

[STARGLO6]

I really enjoyed the way your video flowed with the music. One can almost feel the joyousness and good taste of the couples while dancing....such a sharp contrast to the dances of today!

[barbcard]

Just returned from a brief trip to find this lively and cleverly presented video. Maybe I'm too tired to figure it out for myself right now, but why is this called the BROOKLYN cakewalk? Any connection with "my" Brooklyn?

[yiddishtheater]

As far as I know, the composer was American, maybe he composed this dance which was played in Brooklyn salons...

[yiddishtheater]

I love this tune !!

I have an instrumental version of it on Edison wax cylinder, under the title "The Dream of the Rarebit Fiend", another on G&T one-sided recorded in London, and a last one sung in French by Charlus on a Pathé cylinder.

But the one I prefer is this one !

It is funny that the title is written in 5 languages on the record label.

[pwarkentin2pc]

If people of the time thought that these pictures, graphics, and music would be interesting a hundred years later, they were right. Great video.

[merrihew]

Very attractive label and great pictures.

[Corrie121]

Interesting. I really like the pics. A nice insight into a past age.

Like the music too!

Thanks for sharing.

[dzheger]

Just love this combination of German singing and African-American dance. All the illustrations are lovely but the first poster takes the cake.

[HarborGuy]

Thanks to the Castles dance team I think? This was befor or after the "Grizzley Bear" and let Ragtime in the back door lol..quite daring in it's time I am sure...Great pictures too of the era...

[bostonblakie]

Very nice. Too bad the American influence was superficial, unable to grow stronger roots and lighten things up a bit more in Germany.

[Jeansschwimmer]

too bad the American influence was not even strong enough to enlighten things up in the USA themselves.

Wilson was made the fool of the world when Congress pushed the country into isolation, the Treaty of Versailles became the source of all the troubles we still have in the Middle East and Balcans, racial segregation stained democracy in the USA, and there is no need to make any comments about the American influence on the financial world in 1929 and 2008.

[bostonblakie]

History speaks for itself regarding the road taken by Germany.