"Turn on Your Radio" - Ben Selvin and His Moulin Rouge Orchestra, 1923 (Irving Kaufman)

TURN ON YOUR RADIO (And Listen In On Your Home Town) - Fox Trot
(Cliff Hess)
Played by Ben Selvin and His Moulin Rouge Orchestra
(Vocal Chorus by Irving Kaufman)
Vocalion B-14754, 1923

Commercial radio broadcasting was still new and radios were still something of a novelty when this song was written. In fact, the lyrics read almost as an instruction manual!

"Turn on your radio,
And then you listen!
Without a radio, Oh! what you're missin'!
The air is full of song,
So run along and buy a set!
Just turn a little dial,
And in a while, see what you get!
You'll hear a jazz band play out in Chicago!
You'll hear 'most everyone of great renown!
And if you're blue, and on your mind
You've got the folks you left behind,
You can listen in on your home town!"

Illustrated with vintage magazine advertisements from the collection of abendstunde49.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Ben
• Selvin
• Irving
• Kaufman
• early
• radio
• 78rpm
• 1920s

[SuperLuckydream]

What a lovely video! Music and visuals are so harmoniously matched! Thank you, dear Anthony.

[abendstunde49]

@SuperLuckydream

I am so pleased by your kind comments, dear Tamara!

[VictrolaJazz]

Thanks! I love any and all 20's radio songs!

[abendstunde49]

@VictrolaJazz Glad you like it! I always thought it was a fun record!

[willgonow]

well done !!!

[abendstunde49]

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[chkjns]

Your presentations are all gems for a historian like me. HUGE THANKS.

I'm trying to make these more readily accessable. . . . . . . .

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[abendstunde49]

Thank you very much!

[sbd650]

C`est Magnifique!

[abendstunde49]

Thank YOU for your kind comment!