78s George Hamilton Green - Watermelon Whispers

This is a great tune by the one and only Xylophone master George Hamilton Green from 1916 on the Emerson label No. 991. A jazz number with orchestra and a xylophone solo throughout the song.

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• Xylophone
• George Hamilton Green
• Watermelon Whispers

[whiskeyshan]

I've got the edison blue amberol version of this - this sounds aot more jazzy than the edison version

[althazarr]

Awesome! I would love to hear it sometime.

[dhbvmm]

This was written by Green as a ragtime piano solo, and published in 1918 by Ted Brown music company. Here Green performs it as a xylophone solo with band, improvising many phrases quite differently than printed.

This music is an early example of the foxtrot, which provided the basis for the development of novelty ragtime. Green was a great ragtime performer on xylophone. He often "ragged" popular dance tunes, as well as writing some amazing novelty xylophone rags of his own.

[althazarr]

I appreciate your added information! Thanks for listening.

[Dewcefus]

HA! Of all the records in my collection, this is probably the last one I ever expected to see a dupe of!