Charleston
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  • @ashvanber

    what are you talking about, in the 20s the ladies looked nice because theyd recieve a prompt backhand an an evening of marital rape if they didn't. It was the 20s baby, cheer up. **smacK!**

  • I wish I'd lived i the 20's and I'm only 15.

  • @jokrluvr77

    15 is a big number dude. if you think you're "only 15" then youll be "only 36" and still living with your momz... glad you like the 20s. And besides, its not like you learn all about the 1920s after you're 15... in fact you probably covered it in school last semester or someshit, so you're probably ESPECIALLY prone to like the 1920s. With all the guns, glamour, and none of the understanding of the opression of race and women, 15 is

    the perfect age to appreciate the 1920s.

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  • @max8987 15 isn't a big number when you are 15. And i went beyond my schooling and I do understand the women's troub;es. I'm not an idiot. And i also know that the 20's is when women started to get theire voice. I'm not stupid. I may not be 30, but I have brains.

  • I have this song on cd. Perhaps it's the same cd? :)

  • @ashvanber

    Hell yeah to that. Classy suits. Music. Dancing. Honour. Classy girls.

    One thing I do not like in the 20s - short woman hair, make it shoulder length i want to warp time.

  • Gotta love the 1920's... Really wish I was alive during this amazing part of American History...

  • People all over the world were appreciating Jazz music and Jazz dance, which was before exclusive to blacks in only a couple American states. What was once a comparatively small movement became a staple in music, dance, and American culture. Jazz is now considered to be to America what classical music was to Europe.

  • I'd love to be back there driving my 1928 Deusenberg Model J roadster to the country club after which I'd take Louise Brooks for a drive, then we'd go sightseeing over Hollywood in my private Ford Tri-Motor. After that....who knows?

  • @SpeedyNeutrino43 If we could pick up Clara Bow for me and some penicillian for the both of us, I will join you. lol

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  • one of my faveroite songs and dances

  • A remarkable recoring. The sound is 'just right'. An enjoyable posting.... thankyou.

  • if the 20s was a part then the 30s was a hangover

    great song

  • I love this video..great job,now I have to find my familes original 78rpm records..from this era..thank you for posting this.

  • if it wasn't for the charlston there wouldn't be any form of popular dance.

  • wish i grew up back then

  • Hello, I guess you wouldn't say that back then ! Times were tough and when you were a kid, you would have been spanked many times in school and at home too !

  • @jackyruimy I was spanked many times anyways! Ahaha

  • Who the hell disliked this video and why?

  • Lovit, greate music wonderfull times

  • Goodstuff

  • Great music!!

  • MANY thanks for posting this delightful version of the 1920's classic. And what a wonderful montage of vinatge pictures you collected! Puts me in the mood to put on my racoon coat & fill my hip flask for New Year's Eve! You're the bee's knees...in fact, you're the cat's pajamas! 23 skidoo! Oh you kid!!! :)

  • fancy foot work two step two step two step hahaha

  • 0:37.. ^^ at first I thought it's a laptop. xD

  • don't feel bad. so did i.

  • It was.

    ..haha ;]

  • I lovvee the clothes back then, thats such a pretty girl at 2:37!!

  • i love the music.,

  • Many thanks for your sensibility and good taste. Simply beautiful, fasihionable, excellent shot and cut. And I love Old Paul Whiteman's tunes. Antonio Augusto from Brazil

  • Jazz of 20's the best jazz of all times.

  • Sorry, I meant to rate it 5 but I accidentally hit 4.

  • At 0:43, is that an early lap top? Sure looks it.

  • nar its just like a little case, like a lunch box or something it had a Buckle thing laptops don't have them and its too blocky to be a laptop..

  • early lap top,funny observation.

  • Laptop? There wasn't even any TV in the twenties :P

  • Video well done: great pictures and great music!

  • The 1920's was amazing. I wish I could live back then.

    My great-great grandma was a flapper, which I find funny :D

    Great video

    5 stars

  • Great video!

    Could you please tell me where you found that second picture, the one of Clara Bow?

    I'm dying to find it!

  • i have 2 do did in skool 4 bughys malonie

  • C'est pas tout jeune, mais j'aime car ça balance.

    bise

  • Love the Paul Whiteman orchestra! (of course) thanks

  • I'm nearly 19 and I've loved the golden for years. I wish I could have lived back then, a time when people dressed well, cars were built well and low-priced didn't mean low quality. Every time I walk around my neighborhood in a suit and fedora people look at me as if they have never see a well dressed person before. I feel I'm in the wrong time period. I agree with everyone else on this video, the women from that era look like REAL people.

  • Yeah, yet they were naturally cute. Not all fake and weird. I am just NOT into all this weird fabricated look thing now a days. I think it's gross. Sloppy looking, Fake boobs, fake tan and what not. ick. DOn't feel weird about getting looks from people, Just remember, there are plenty of us out there I think we are just scattered far between!

  • You hit the nail on the head. That's all anyone is today, FAKE. I'm not a fan of the 1970's, but I heard that even TV was better back then. It seems now that is "cool" to put curse words in every sentance and make shows like TMZ that unfairly invade peoples privacy.

  • the 70's?

  • I said I heard that TV was better then. In general I HATE the '70s. My favorite decades I'd say are the 1910's to the mid-1960's. The only good things in my opinion that came out of the '70s were the movies.

  • @1947Desoto People have always been fake. People were never any better than they are now. It's easy to say that people were different in a different time or in a different place, but that dream is fueled by a lack of experience of the time period. If you had read the Great Gatsby, you would already know people were fake in the 1920s too.

  • @qiqimaster : In your comment,you said people are no better off than they are now..I beg to differ with you.from the late 1940's til now,I have seen America,go from a productive nation,to a nation that makes NOTHING anymore.From what I've experienced through time on this earth,I see American then and now,as a nation on it's way DOWN,,and in a BIG way.Talk to a person in they're nineties,I do on a regular basis.They will tell you this,they,as well as I,have seen the USA,go from sugar,to sh*t

  • @qiqimaster So you're basing you're argument off of a fiction book? Talk about a lack of experience.

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  • Hi everyone, does somebody know, what the name of the lovely lady from 0:31 and 1:38 is? She seems to be an actress or some sort of famous person (she's so damn hot, but hey, you don't say that to lady ;) ). The woman on the red - ish picture with the rose is sweet too. Well, actually they're all beauties, but those two kind of atract me the most..Oh and who drew the first picture? Maybe blathermore or someone else can help? :)

  • I think it may be a very young, Gloria Swanson.

  • You could be right there, but I couldn't find that explicit picture used in this video, if it indeed was Gloria..well let's just see what blathermore says, I wrote him a message, but he isn't the kind of guy who checks his youtube-mails every day..;) thanks anyway :)

  • Please don't qoute me because I am not absolutely sure, I had several possibles in mind and after picture searches on google she seemed the closest but I am by no means entirely sure. If I find that pic and details of the lady in it I will let you know!

  • Guess what, I found out who she is...it's Jane Green! A lovely singer from the 20's..(nah not the author, the sweet woman on the old pics)

    Byebye ;)

  • By the way, I am assuming you refer to the Lady in profile with the cheeky off the shoulder number and the dreamy look in her eyes?

  • Yes, I am reffering to the "Lady in profile with the cheeky off the shoulder number and the dreamy look in her eyes" and the kind-of frizzly hair...she's the only one that is just shown 2 and not 3 times :(.

    Oh, and really thanks for the help on researching, I fear that I don't know too much about those Ladies, but I'm getting smarter :)

  • No problem, I am not too sure I hit the nail on the head either but if I get a definitive notion of who she is I'll let you know!

  • I like how all these girls weren't sticks, they looked like real people.

  • Awesome pictures.

  • Paul Whiteman acoustic best version made....for Victor

  • Actually this is an electrical recording, not acoustical. Recorded May 7, 1925. This is the released take 8 with the crazy chinaman scat. Back in 1999, Vince Giodano accidentally discovered unreleased take 6 in the Victor vault that did not have the scat, and released it on the century review CD "Time Capsule" on Buddha Records. So that is an even better version than this!!!

  • this was great fashion! would be nice to see something like that again!

  • Love that 1920s look, especially the short bob on dark hair! Nice

  • it made me crayed. so beautiful

  • I think they were all beautiful.

  • Hahaha, I'm thirteen. And I still think they were beautiful.

  • the pictures are great..i loved it even if i hate video that aren't videos because it only images and music.. anyway.. they were good.. but twice the sames.. come on..

  • Boy! grandma was sexy then! just kidding! great legs!im sure that was sexualy explict for that time.

  • i love it :). i would have rather been alive then, rather then now x

  • I'm 15 & this is the best music ever made :]]]

    Too bad they don't make it like they used to...

  • I'm 19 but have liked this sort of stuff for years. Glad some other young people appriciate it. :)

  • amen to that.

    15 as well:)

  • Who is that gal at 1:07 ?

  • I love this dance and its music. It's so fun to do. Pretty simpple also. I learnt it in a month, without lessons. These records of history are probably the best help you can get.

  • I Completely agree! And i am 14! I am quite out of place!

  • you're among friends :) im 15

  • And I'm 16. I guess we're not as alone as we thought. :)

  • Same here- I'm 19 :)

  • sweet-pretty epoque:-)imlike this contest:-)

  • Ahh that is Paul Witheman & His Orchestra

    love it ;)

  • swell just swell :D

  • What a delight this sequence is.

  • I feel nostalgic, and I still think that today the bobbed hair is kinda sexy, lol. Its original, you never see it, so its cool.

  • Women knew how to be themselves, and yet beautiful then . . .

  • Plus . . . have to admit . . . men knew how to dress well then too. Bring back the days of fedoras and tailored suits!!! (guess I could do without the hair grease tho)

  • ahh to live back in those days where not everyone's goal was to be a stripper and girls has self respect.

    turn on the news now and all you see is teens beating up others on Youtube.

  • To think, women in that era thought skirts at the CALF were too short!

    I was told that Ohio (or some state) tried to pass a law that skirts or dresses couldn't be 3 INCHES above the ANKLE! How crazy?! Right?

    I mean, look at the girls now a days...

  • In case you haven't noticed, there are countries today, where, IF their father or husband lets them go out, women are only allowed to show their eyes. Anything else can result in serious punishment, and stoning to death if caught in the company of men.

  • That's in the middle east somewhere.

    Yet, in some other muslin countries, Indonesia for example, if a woman is raped by a man she will be stoned for beings so 'tempting'; for lack of a better word.

  • If you didn't know, the throws they use to cover the legs of chairs were from a period where woman were expected to be covered, head to toe. They were so extreme they didn't even want the legs of chairs showing because they didn't want to give "naughty thoughts" to males. You weren't even allowed to say breast. They called turkey breast white meat.

  • yeah it was better then. more mystery, such excitement at each inch of flesh. nowadays women spread em and you see a butchers shop window, theres nothing left. it's like going straight for the pudding

  • lol - best line of the year!

  • The kind of things that happened back then remind me of Pride and Prejudice. Not sure why, but women then had a strong self of being, as to now when lots of girls always think that they have to be sexy or skinny, or blonde, or whatever to be beautiful. **random-ish comment**

  • Yes, yet in the "moving pictures", you see a lot of those crazy low low cut flapper dresses where if they just move ever so slightly they might have problems.... Just one example; Louise Brooks in Pandoras box wears a pretty racey little number! sfunny how everyone thinks it was so chaste in historic times. There has always been two sides to it all.

  • thanx for remembering olive thomas.

  • You bet. She was truly great wasn't she?

  • I want to get up and dance!!!! :D

    This music of the 1920s is absolutely timeless.

    :D

  • Great video, sometimes I pictured myself in that era. I liked the hairstyles and the fashion of the 20s and the dances as well. Awesome video.

  • Thanks. The era really does cast a spell, doesn't it?

  • the best was the car behind one of the actresses

  • i believe the song is from 1927, not 1925.

  • Paul Whiteman recorded Charleston on May 7, 1925 at the Victor Talking Machine Studios in Camden NJ. It was recorded Acoustically-with a recording horn and no mike. Amazing sound for an acoustic recording.

  • Actually, this is electrically recorded. It was in some of the first groups of electric recordings relesed in the spring of 1925. No anouncement was made, so the public had no idea what was going on. The new phonographs wouldn't be released till that fall.

  • Seems there's a bit too much bass present for an acoustic recording anyway. That's a good way to tell the difference.

  • I researched your comment-you're so right-thanks for the correction. Any idea why the record companies kept their new "Microphone" technology secret from the public until December 1925? That's what threw me-the Christmas 1925 announcement by all of the record companies simultaneously.

  • Possibly because it took most of 1925 to convert the factories and get production of the new style phonographs up to speed. There were a lot of advertising teasers leading up to that Christmas, which saw huge sales of the new phonographs.

  • Cute and we hear the great Paul Whiteman Ocrhestra performed "Charleston" recording in 1925.

  • Thanks. By any chance, are you a twenties scholar?

  • your welcome =]

  • awesome i love it and i love this song too

  • Thanks, gabby.

  • Love it!

  • Thanks, icecreamberry. I'm glad you liked it.

    Blathermore

  • Absolutely beautiful. I hope all the ladies pictured had wonderful lives.

  • wowow that is  great

  • I love it!

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