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Uploaded by on Jun 23, 2008

78RPM Victor disc of Joseph C Smith and his orchestra performing a popular waltz. Acoustic recording, played on a Brunswick phonograph.

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  • is this the original?, anyway appropriate tune for this time of the am...like it's 3:36 & i'm doing facebook right now. tjere was a time when even coffee shops were closed at this hour, even in manhattan. now of coarse you can go shopping, day or night 24/7. thx4 posting

  • @Ezdduf4kuZ 78discography says that this record was done on January 27, 1922. I am using a better microphone now, and one of these days I will repost this one so it doesn't sound so 'tinny.'

  • "Her glance left me and sought the lighted top of the steps where 'Three O'Clock in the Morning,' a neat sad little waltz of that year, was drifting out the open door." --The Great Gatsby,_ Chapter VI

    Song dates from 1919--was a hit when words were added to it (1921.) _The Great Gatsby_ occurs in 1922.

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    Cf. "In the real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning..." --"The Crack Up" (1936)

  • Thank You! I had not looked up the information on this record. It has been over thirty years since I read The Great Gatsby.

    I usually post a 'new' record on Friday night, so check in once in a while. David N

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  • Pity I didn'l learn to type better since then.

    ;(

  • I had to sind this song and play in on a banjo for the play "The Front Page" my sophmore year in college. :)

  • Wonderful post thanks for sharing - Zef

  • I'm glad to be of use. I think I've provided similar references for other songs both in _Gatsby_ ("Beale Street Blues," "Ain't We Got Fun," e. ., and _Tender._ I don't seem to be able to find an easy list of all my comments via the You Tube records (doubtless it can be done but I don't know how to do it.) However, there are two places in _Tender_ that mention numerous songs--(Book II, Chapter 5, and some later on). My books are not to hand, but on You Tube you can hear much vintage (cont'd)

  • Wondedrful. I'm the RA for an instructor that asked me to find this song for her lectures on F.S. F because she remembered her mother singing it years ago. How much will it will make her day to learn of the connections you provide.

    Thanks so much.

  • Another good Smith side, a fox trot, from 1922, is "While Miami Dreams" - Check it out if you can find it.

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