James P Johnson The Charleston 1925

James P Johnson The Charleston 1925 piano roll

Lyrics by Cecil Mack according to Wikipedia

Caroline, Caroline, At last they've got you on the map.
With a new tune, a funny blue tune, with a peculiar snap!
You many not be able to buck and wing, fox-trot, two-step, or even swing,
If you ain't got religion in your feet, you can do this prance and do it neat.
Charleston! Charleston! Made in Carolina.
Some dance, some prance, I'll say, there's nothing finer
Than the Charleston, Charleston. Lord, how you can shuffle.
Ev'ry step you do leads to something new, man, I'm telling you it's a lapazoo.
Buck dance, wing dance, will be a back number,
But the Charleston, the new Charleston, that dance is surely a comer.
Sometime you'll dance it one time, the dance called the Charleston,
Made in South Caroline.
Charleston! Charleston! Made in Carolina.
Some dance, some prance, I'll say, there's nothing finer
Than the Charleston, Charleston. Lord, how you can shuffle.
Ev'ry step you do leads to something new, man, I'm telling you it's a lapazoo.
Buck dance, wing dance, will be a back number,
But the Charleston, the new Charleston, that dance is surely a comer.
Sometime you'll dance it one time, the dance called the Charleston,
Made in South Caroline!

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• jazz

[StukityFarnsworth]

LOL @ 2:22

[oldtimecharlie]

@StukityFarnsworth I'm sure all the guys in the audience appreciated the janitor who buffed the floor out to a mirror like finish :)

[jgstargazer]

It would be great to find a restaurant with '20s decore and music like this playing in the background.

[keelan111]

Probably, at the end of the day, one of the happiest songs in the american songbook.

[jgstargazer]

@thelonelyslayer All the best with your plans and good luck.

[thelonelyslayer]

@jgstargazer there are a few. i live in L.A and there's The Cicada Club in downtown. It's alright but the customers are generally older in their 30s/40s/ and up. So it's missing that flaming youth of teens/20s. My dream is to one day open up a club that plays hot 20s jazz but in a modern club like atmosphere with loud bass and videos playing with the music. Someday...

[jgstargazer]

@8azile8 That's great! Wish I lived nearby one.

[8azile8]

@jgstargazer The Bookstore. Bethlehem, PA awesome place. It was an old speakeasy and the servers dress

[leoncoda]

James Price Johnson (JAMES P. JOHNSON) nacido en New Brunswick, Nueva Jersey, en 1891 ; fallecido en 1955, en Nueva York, fue un formidable compositor y pianista de jazz clásico e influyó algo en el pianista y compositor de jazz moderno THELONIOUS MONK (vivía en su mismo barrio en N.York ), pero Thelonious recibió aún más influencia de DUKE ELLINGTON. JAMES P. JOHNSON tocó mucho STRIDE, juego armónico-rítmico con la mano izquierda, mientras la derecha tocaba la melodía en el piano.

[brabazon10]

James P didn't know what he was starting; a whole new genre that over 70 years has mushroomed in to all kinds of music.

[Lutiolae]

@badJokeBitedebouc True, I don't know why I said that --'

[badJokeBitedebouc]

@Lutiolae Not jazz son , but charleston

[9gigglegirl13]

Listening to this song and staying completely still is painful. It really inspires me to attempt to recreate the era somehow.

[Lutiolae]

Jazz like I love it.