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Ethel Waters sings Am I Blue from the 1929 motion picture "On With the Show". This was the first sound movie filmed in color-unfortunately, only ...

A rare film clip of Annette Hanshaw performing

The great depression hit the US (and soon most of the rest of the world) with sickening speed in 1929. Lives were turned upside down as unemployme...

Mean to Me by Annette Hanshaw 1929 from the movie Sita Sings The Blues by Nina Paley.

The 1930s saw the rise of powerful radio stations along the northern Mexican border, out of the reach of U. S. authorities. Among the border radio...

From a 1985 performance by Peggy Sue and Sonny Wright. This song is from the album titled Gently Hold Me (1981).

Peggy Sue is Loretta Lynn and Cr...

Hoagy Carmichael and Ella Logan sing Two Sleepy People accompanied by the Perry Botkin Orchestra. Brunswick Records LA1730 8250, 1938. From the m...

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra recorded You Dog in 1931on the cheap Banner "dime store" label which was sold in department stores in the 1930s. Ca...

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys travelled to Chicago, Illinois in September 1936 to cut several sides for Okeh/Vocalion. At those sessions 03343A...

Lee Wiley was born in Cherokee County, Oklahoma in 1908 She left home as a teen to sing with the Leo Reisman band. She was forced to take several ...

Emilio Caceres Y Si Orquestra del Club Aquila recorded Alla En El Rancho Grande (Over at the Big Ranch) for the Mexican subsidiary of Victor Record...

Charlie Chaplin stars in this 1915 silent which he wrote and directed for the Essanay Film Mfg. Co. (S&A). S&A Studio was founded by G K Spoor and...

Cliff Bruner was a fiddler and band leader of his Texas Wanderers. He was influential in the development of the western swing sound of the 1930s a...

During the depression, Captain Henry's Maxwell House Showboat took listeners back to happier times of the old south. The show broke ground for the...

Victor Young and His Orchestra. The Very Thought of You. 1934

Brunswick

Jimmie Rodgers, the first inductee into the country music hall of fame-the man who started it all, sings 99 Years Blues. Recorded for Victor Recor...

Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers recorded EACH DAY March 5, 1930 at the RCA Victor Studios, 16 West 46, New York.

Carole Lombard stars with George Raft in the '34 film Bolero. Lombard was nominated for best actress in 1936 for My Man Godfrey. She was married ...

Yes, I know this was previously posted. This version does have the opening credits and the picture is much clearer making it more enjoyable to vie...

Maxine Sullivan was born in Pennsylvania in 1911 and had very little formal musical training. While singing in the Ben Harrison Literary Club (act...

Fussy Mabel was recorded by Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers March 20, 1930. Victor 38125A was cut at the Victor Labs, 44th Street in New...

Bob Wills was born in Kosse, Texas in 1905. In 1929 he started the Wills Fiddle Boys in Ft. Worth, then came to the attention of perennial Texas ...

Ethel Waters sings her signature song "Am I Blue" followed by "Underneath a Harlem Moon" in 2 clips from the 1933 movie Rufus Jones for President. ...

Sammy Davis Jr sings I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You and then shows off his hoofing talents in several clips from the 1933 movie "Rufu...

Get out and Get Under, 1920 silent starring Harold Lloyd. This film is copyrighted and is exhibited with the permission of the Harold Lloyd Trust.

Margaretha Keller was born in Vienna, Austria in 1903. She was trained in dance and acting and appeared onstage with Marlene Dietrich and was a mo...

Annette Hanshaw sings Am I Blue from the from the motion picture On With The Show which featured Ethel Waters, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown and Arth...

8-16-1932- Columbia Records

This has been posted a few times. I'll still chug along with posting my Annette collection. Annette Hanshaw (October 18...