Paul Tremaine and His Aristocrats - Four/ Four Rhythm, 1929

Paul Tremaine operated a popular East Coast dance orchestra from the 1920s to the 1940s. The group featured ensamble vocals and the trumpet work of future bandleader Sonny Dunham. During the early 1930s the orchestra resided at Yoeng's Chinese-American Restaurant on Broadway. It recorded for Victor and Columbia. Tremaine retired in the mid-1930s to form a new band a year later.

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[guitaress1]

The debate still rages between the two beat and the four/four, with passionate partisans on either side. I tend to want to swing, but two beat can do that too, if there's a wiggle in it.

[DGatsby]

Great song! Thanks!

[Kirke182]

@6374112 I agree. Great song, though.

[6374112]

Hi, 2/4 rhythm is when the bass plays on beats 1 & 3 per measure. In 4/4 rhythm, the bass plays on all 4 beats. Swing is 4/4, most twenties music and polkas, etc are 2/4. I use to perform this very arrangement with my orchestra. Royal Society Jazz Orchestra, see youtube.

[seanneilan]

What does it mean though to be in 2/4 rhythm v.s. 4/4 rhythm?

(I'm not a musically inclined person, although I do like this song).

[6374112]

Ironically, this song is in 2/4 rhythm.

[cvwtzhaar]

great, swingin' record

[jozefsterkens]

Good record, may I ask wich ball room is the first picture?

[kspm01]

Brilliantly catchy!

[dzheger]

Perfect music for a New Year ball. He may sing about the Charleston being "passe" in 1929, but it is very much in vogue here in 2007!