Roaring 20s: Lou Gold's Orch. - Buy, Buy For Baby, 1928

[manidig]

This is a nice laid back Lou Gold record. Most of his stuff is up tempo and many are Klez-flavored. Very nice. And yes...it's acoustic but it's Harmony acoustic. You can tell that there's a bass sax in there instead of a tuba. Older acoustic systems (except for Edison) weren't as good. I'd like to hear this record played on an Orthophonic Victrola.

[whizbang47]

Sounds like an acoustic recording. Pretty old hat by 1928, wouldn't you think?

[EdisonSquirrel]

This was recorded on the Harmony label, which released mostly acoustic records until 1930. In 1923, near the end of the acoustic era, Columbia upgraded its recording equipment. In two years electric recording came into being, and Columbia, hesitant to discard its newly upgraded acoustic equipment, relegated it to its subsidiary label, Harmony.

[ray1bradbury]

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[ray1bradbury]

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[zuebee]

Wow... thanks for this great song! I have the sheet music for this one and this is the first time I've heard it played.

[kspm01]

Interesting and rare recording!

[dzheger]

Chirpy music that makes you want to dance and makes you giggle too. Jews in music: I think that for most of them, in the US as in Europe, their Jewishness had no effect on their music. For the most part it's universal. But nothing is absolute...there's always "Rebeka" and "Second Hand Rose"

[merrihew]

An interesting question that has been debated before. One conclusion is that Jews in music were more sympathetic to the plight of Blacks because of mutual discrimination and therefore more interested in "Black" music as well.

[barbcard]

Love those ladies looking at the "Retirement Sale." Many of those musical directors were apparently Jewish. Any thoughts about the effect of that on their music?