Annette Hanshaw - Lovable and Sweet - 1929

[surfwave1951]

Sweet girl. I can't believe I'm in love

with this 110 year old woman.

[preservationhall01]

@surfwave1951 Oops, now she's 28.

[rgaleny]

@surfwave1951 I think I know what you mean.

[paulj0557]

I just got a lead on stacks of old 1920's & 30's sheet music. The woman was a music teacher since the 40's. I can't wait to go check it out. She had a Hammond organ that she bought in 1940 with an early Leslie...Also this week I cleaned the carpets for a gentleman who has been a high school band instructor for 30 years. He said that in the storage room is a Hammond organ that never gets played as the students have no interest. Said organ was old in early 70's when he was a student. Offered to me

[MsTappingtoes]

This really cheered me up today. Thank you for posting!

[paulj0557]

And people think that CooL began in the 50's.

[MrGotsquashed]

@paulj0557 To a certain extent. The way I see it, the '50s were about the hot rods! You don't see many '29 coupes playing music from '29. Personally, I like music because of the sound.  For cars and music-the beginnings to the early '60s are my favorites.

[roybo1930]

This is the first record I ever heard her sing, GOD I HAVE LOVED HER EVER SINCE!

[paulagloria]

I wonder why she dropped out of fame...was something "wrong" with her copyright...or maybe it was too right for the artist or the artist's heirs

[LapisGarter]

@paulagloria Hanshaw is mostly unknown because she never did anything to promote herself. She hated show business, and she hated recording. She didn't want to be famous. She said in an interview, she only did it for the money. Her career was very short as well.

[paulagloria]

@LapisGarter have you seen "Sita Sings the Blues" with Hanshaw's voice? I think there was a problem over copyright....wonder who owns the copyrights?

[LapisGarter]

@paulagloria The problem over copyright was that Nina Paley had to pay an exorbitant amount of money to have her music featured in the film. There were a number of copyright extensions since the song was released back in the 20's and they are legally still under copyright law.

[spoonido]

Oooh, yaaah! Walk that thang!

[PonderingPig]

The pure essence of flapperdom. Full of fun, of joy and ready to laugh at themselves. Check out that trombone break -  wonderful musical comedy.

[Edisonfans19]

Great recording, love the trivia as well. Thank you for posting!

[preservationhall01]

@Edisonfans19 You're quite welcome-I enjoy making these. PH01

[MrRedFredSaid]

This is delightful. Thank you for sharing.

[BuyBenco]

Fascinating Rhythm

[fairman1952]

That's all

[katowsky]

I really hope we ' ll all have the great honour to meet such wonders , such angels , on the other side of the mirror. When seeing and hearing this... I ' m nearly close to think there' s something else . It would be criminal they just diseapear as they had never existed . It can't be !! Many thanks for sharing .

[paulj0557]

@katowsky Wonderful words you write. I drop the word 'old' every time something like this hits my soul. In fact it often takes a song or a movie to remind me I am a living breathing person.

[199520002002]

What a great natural voice, so untypical for that time. Thank you from Germany.

[bigcity233]

I'm not surprised that Annette was the winner. In the vernacular of her time - she was a real doll!

[Tonymostrom]

She's so charming.

[prettyparisian]

:) Thanks for sharing this is one of my favourites by the lovey Annette. People who worked with and knew annette said she was just like this song- lovable and oh so sweet. Very Nice, classic song x

[yogisuperman]

Annette was So Lovable and Sweet. No wonder Annette was the winner of the Personality Girl contest over all her contenders. Shyness added to her attractiveness. It also shortened her career. No movies, no live performances, only what she would allow, Singing in the studio. Reminds me a little of Eva Cassidy's career. Strange, how history repeats itself.

[MisterEvasion]

at :55 Ruth Etting is way down the list. Ethel Shutta is good too.

I also notice Frances Langford lingering near the bottom, but I guess she was just emerging at the time.

Annette Hanshaw has a good smooth voice, you always look forward to 'that's all'. Top flapper.

[preservationhall01]

I think Frances Langfords time was more into the 40s wasn't it?  I'm going to post one of her songs soon. Etting never had that many great hits and her popularity was hampered by her marriage to her gangster husband according to other comments I have read on Hanshaw vids.

[spchevy]

@preservationhall01 I have to disagree with you about Ruth Etting. She was called Americas Sweetheart. She had over 60 hit songs,movies ,Ziegfeld Follies,and radio. What a wonderful voice she had.

[curleyQ01]

@spchevy Etting America's Sweetheart? LOL!! You're entitled to your own set of opinions but not your own set of made up "facts". Etting had 60 recordings NOT 60 hits-only 5 were hits. Hanshaw had 325 recordings of which 90 were true hits. In a Radioland poll of the fans themselves, Hanshaw was chosen most popular American singer (with 5 times as many votes as Etting) who finished behind such stalwarts as Gertie Neisen, Muriel Wilson and Harriett Hilliard (think Ozzie & Harriett).

[chaosisfriendly]

Wow, I only heard of her recently. This song really makes me tap my feet each time I listen to it. So many people are missing such great music. Thanks for posting this :)

[Shabannie]

I love Annette Hanshaw. Good contribution!

------Ellen

[preservationhall01]

Thanks for your comment.

[Corrie121]

Just wonderful. I love this song. Please post more of the delectable Annette's songs from an age when music really was music.

Thanks for sharing.

[preservationhall01]

Thanks for stopping by.

[girlhitsbus]

I love this song, I sing it all the time. :) Wish I could find some of her records

[preservationhall01]

Try Amazon

[luvebug21]

Agreed its nice to tap my feet to this song.dam dam damdam x

[syrnostalgic]

Who's the trumpet player on this side? He almost sounds like Bix - but of course it's not actually Bix...

[preservationhall01]

I have the actual record-Okeh 41292, but its no help. The label only says vocal with orchestra from the motion picture Street Girl. I believe it may be Phil Napoleon.

[troleman18]

I heard this on the radio yesterday. According to the BBC web site it's:

Loveable and Sweet (Levant, Clare) (2:48)

Performed by Annette Hanshaw (p, v) Tommy Dorsey (tp) Charlie Butterfield (tb) Jimmy Dorsey (cl, as) Arthur Schutt (p) Tony Colucci (g) Hank Stern (brass) Stan King (d)

Recorded 29 August 1929

Taken from the album Lovable and Sweet

1997 CD (ASV CDAJA5220 (1) Track 14)

[preservationhall01]

Thanks for your info on the performers. This sound on this vid was made from the 1929 "78".

[preservationhall01]

See troleman18's comment below.

[JediGoddessChristy]

This is fantastic, she has' a great sound to her voice! Thank you sharing something you can't find anywhere else! Please post as many songs as you can.

[thefantastikmrbone]

I LOVE this song!!! And Annette in general.

[Cresantstar]

i like her helen kane imitations which she only did a few lol but in a light song after all her songs she always said

Thats All

[krispray]

Thank you so much for this! I have been searching all over for Annettes version of this wonderful song. Thanks again!

[preservationhall01]

Any other Hanshaw you would like to hear? My friends and I have have about 150 of her 78s recordings.