Flapper

[Helenem55]

Oh, stop it! the shimmery gal clip was seen in the Ken burns Docu. "Prohibition" great music great times. They weren't so 'modest' those gals were shaking all the body parts, ala Beyonce, eh Woo-Hoo,

[Helenem55]

Oh, stop it!!!!

[collegegal79]

does it really matter lets enjoy the video and music because you did a great job regardless

[limlumable]

Where could I download this song? I love it!

[locochico4]

the girl at 1:10 is beautiful...

[Trigahappymore]

@locochico4 sure she is, that's Josephine Baker

[healer378]

very sexy and stylish. I think these girls can out beat 60s-70s.

[hedablinka]

Flappers were 1920's. That doesn't mean that music popular in 1918 wasn't heard. After all--in "Casablanca" the hit song "As Time Goes By" was actually almost ten years old, but it got stuck in the movie due to a musicians strike. Not everybody drives the latest car or even has the latest iPhone.

On the other hand, the flappers were somewhat unique in that they benefitted from nearly a half century of feminist labor that they casually threw aside for jazz and sex.

[Brendymac1]

Love this!!

[BuyBenco]

2:16!

[BuyBenco]

What version of Jada is this?

[BoudiccaBlanc]

#1

Thank you for posting this video. I especially like the song and the fashions.

The "Roaring '20s, like most eras was a mixed bag of good and bad; blessings and difficulties

Most people had money to spend. The exception being share-croppers and small independent farmers. Declining grain prices made life more difficult for them as the decade progressed

The extension of credit for all sorts of consumer products helped to fuel the "good times" for most people

Sound Familiar?

[BoudiccaBlanc]

#2

The two biggest downsides of the "Roaring 20's" in America were Prohibition and soaring rates of STDs

Prohibition fueled organized crime and for many people, made disregarding the laws, more or less, "respectable"

Prohibition was also was responsible for very high consumption rates of hard liquor (what, today we would call "binge drinking' or "alcohol abuse")

Prior to Prohibition; most Americans drank beer or wine. Most of the wine had been homemade with a low alcohol content.

[BoudiccaBlanc]

#3

Soaring rates of STDs, especially syphilis, were a very little talked about consequence of the "Roaring '20s. To be accurate this trend started in WW1 when the American Army refused to issue condoms (like the Brits & French) or, to educate our soldiers about condoms and STDs. The only information given was "Don't do it"

By the 1920's; this began to impact large numbers of the American civilian population. As a consequence pre-marital tests for syphilis became the law in many states.

[tdubblz]

In 11th grade, the Roaring 20s were my favorite era that we studied in U.S. History. However, after more broad research, I suppose the 20s were a golden era to be romantized about if you were weathly and white in America, but my grandparents didn't have such a romantic, roaring, or golden experience as some other Americans, neither did my creole grandparents either.

[discolemonade66]

Louise Brooks! Nice addition, Loved her eyes.

[bookkeeper57]

Question: what was a flapper? A dance hall floozie with short hair and hemline, doing the Charleston? Or just a sleek

fashion plate who wore the most progressive clothing the decade introduced? Not sure.

[40sreddoll]

"Flapper" came from the young fashion of the time, they wore their boots undone and they flapped. Also, the fashions after corsets and 20 pounds of hat and hair, was liberating- shorter skirts, bobbed hair and loose fitting drop waists. It must have been wonderful, the vote, the music, a great time!

[loveoldsongs]

I think it may have been more the first! Though I don't think they were all 'floozies'. I worked once in a pharmacy that was built around that time. It had once been a candy store/soda shop before it was a pharmacy.

I worked in the fountain that used to be in some of the old pharmacies. There was an older man who came in for coffee. I was curious about what a 'flapper' was. In fact, I once asked the very same question you did! He told me that a 'flapper' was something like a 60s go-go girl!

[criticop45]

Not exactly a flapper song, however. This song, Ja-Da, was a ragtime-themed hit released in 1918. The flapper movement was really launched in 1920, after Prohibition was enacted and women gained more independent pride from the Nineteenth Amendment. The jazz in the flapper era was more loud and energetic, while ragtime was more quiet and contained some elements of classical music. This is not the best song to use to describe a flapper era song

[swedishcinderella]

Hey, you don´t need to teach me that! I am aware of that Ja Da was released in 1918, and I simply chose it because I love the song. And I thought it suited cause its slow-going and I wanted to show the pictures in a slow tempo. I chose the title "flapper" cause I had some pictures of "flapper-girls". The movie is for entertaining not educating, if you didn´t get that, so if you´re looking for a doccumentary you´ve come to the wrong place.

[criticop45]

I have nothing against the song either. It is a good song

[swedishcinderella]

And whatsmore, Ja Da IS classified as a jazz-tune. You´ve probably just quoted most of your comment from a dictionary or something. I don´t agree that ragtime was more quiet generally then jazz from that era, and you have to explain to me what kind of elements you mean ragtime music has taken from classical music. Do you mean like walzes from the latter part of the 1800s but more upbeat?

[criticop45]

No, ragtime was the predecessor to jazz. It was an upbeat version of classical piano music and it did lead to the creation of jazz, but there were minor differences. Ragtime was carefully written and had a slower melody, while jazz was quicker and improvised. Jazz, which was what the flappers listened too, was an upgraded version of ragtime.

[swedishcinderella]

Ok, I won´t bitch with you anymore whether jazz was played faster or slower then ragtime, I can only speak of what I´ve heard through records ect. I know that some ragtime-composers ( Scott Joplin for example) was very strict about playing in a slow tempo, but he doesn´t represent all the other composers just because he´s the most famous one. Me myself proably play very different from what mr. Joplin wanted to hear his compositions on the piano.

[criticop45]

It's not that the song is bad at all, it's just it's not the energetic type the flappers danced too. I have nothing against the song at all. It is great

[toebonian]

The name of the song is: "Jada"

[toebonian]

One more thing about this song, I sang it in high school with an octet, in 1955.

It was a curious song, but fun to sing because no one else was using it at the time!

[pulido893]

whats the name of the song? and who sings it?

[postcardsoflife]

Great photos. I've done my song, I'll See You In My Dreams' as a 1920's waltz with period photos as well.

[blacksultan85]

flappers girl were the most sexiest rebellious and promiscuous women at that time!

[ManilaSyndicate]

Nice video of a fascinating time period. Nice and apt song to accompany it too.

[51362879]

2:42 The "She Tiger"

hmmmmm.

[stfuXslut]

Anyone know if the picture at 2:21 is supposed to be Philly? The white tower looks exactly like the courthouse. I'm almost positive it is.

[carabinier68]

I love those cloche hats

[shimmymoon]

Ding! Ding!  Ding! The coolest! Thanks!

[mercyhurstchic]

I want my hair styled like Louise Brooks.

[Victrolaman1]

Sounds a little like Al Jolson

[theshadow1932]

Wonderful stuff. My little old grandma was a life long jazz baby. She wore her marcelled (sp?) curls until the day she died, in 1972.

[bphutchins]

20s women were so freaking awesome... they knew how to party

[mercyhurstchic]

you got that right.

[CueChgo]

I remember, when I was a boy, hearing my grandmother singing and playing "Ja Da" on the piano. It was one of her favorites. Actually, "Ja Da" was hit song in 1919.