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NICK LUCAS - Picking the Guitar (1922)
Nick Lucas - Guitar
Phil Boutelje ...
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NICK LUCAS - Picking the Guitar (1922)
Nick Lucas - Guitar
Phil Boutelje - Piano
Recorded July, 1922
(Pathe Actuelle Record # 020794)
Born Dominic Nicholas Anthony Lucanese on August 22, 1897, the son of an Italian gardener, in Belleville, New Jersey. Dominic Nicholas Anthony Lucanese later changed his name legally to Nick Lucas. At an early age he learned how to play the guitar, mandolin and banjo.
His recording career spanned from test cylinders for Thomas Edison in 1912 to the stereophonic age in 1980, with total disc sales in excess of 80 million copies. It is doubtful that anyone in popular music had a longer recording career, one that spanned seven decades.
It is important to remember that, though the height of his popularity came in the late 1920's, Nick Lucas' style was set by the time he moved to Chicago in 1922. Before electrical recording, before Louis Armstrong ever found his way into a recording studio, Nick Lucas had found his voice, and used it in much the same way for sixty years.
In the early days Nick's forte was as an instrumentalist. That would change, Lucas would become one of the first popular crooners on the radio. He is actually credited as creating the "intimate style" of entertaining after beginning his vaudeville career accompanying himself with his guitar. His was the first custom-made guitar and even today one of the best selling type picks bears Nick Lucas' name.
In 1924 Frank Campbell, who was general sales manager for Gibson was looking for an endorsement by a well-known star to push an expensive guitar. Nick Lucas, who had the first guitar instrumental hit record in 1922, [Picking The Guitar/Teasing The Frets (Pathe Actuelle 020794)] was an obvious choice, since he was already playing a Gibson L-5.
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The fabulous Whippoorwills doing Behold The Bridegroom Cometh on the Luc...
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The fabulous Whippoorwills doing Behold The Bridegroom Cometh on the Lucky-U Ranch radio program, subbing for the Sons of the Pioneers.
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Blackbird Society Orchestra playing at Wallingford Community Arts Center...
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Blackbird Society Orchestra playing at Wallingford Community Arts Center for the Tri State Jazz Society
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"Gone Tomorrow" from the album 'Mr. M', out February 2012.
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"Gone Tomorrow" from the album 'Mr. M', out February 2012.
Buy the album:
Direct: http://glnk.it/xk
Amazon: http://glnk.it/p3
iTunes: http://glnk.it/p2
Featuring JOCEPHUS and WOLFIE D
Special thanks to TONY FALK and the STADIUM INN
Directed and photographed by ZACK SPIGER
Gaffer and Key Grip JEFFREY STANFILL
Dolly Grip HERBERT JONES
Editorial by SACHA SZWARC
Film scanning and grading by ERIC ROSEN at LIGHTPRESS
Shot on KODAK motion picture film
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Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson - Guitar Blues
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You are very good!
Best,
Tom Geisler
USA
good to see there are other gypsy jazzers in the area!
take care, see you around hopefully! tell us when your gigging and i'll try make it down!
Vernon Bigsby
thank you very much for the sub!!! Your channel is very cool, great playing!!!
All the best, esq
Take care my friend.
Wish you all the best my friend.