Just found this site and wanted to share it. People who like this sort of thing will like this sort of thing.
Inludes original recordings of some of my favorites: “Fido is a Hot Dog Now,” “O’Brien Is Tryin’ to Learn to Talk Hawaiian,” “There Must Be Little Cupids in the Briny,” “My Little Bimbo Down on the Bamboo Isle”—why don’t they write 'em like that anymore?
While my computer can’t play any of those selections, any list of recordings that includes the Happiness Boys, marching bands, and barbershop-style quartets can’t be that bad.
This is cool, Eve! I’ve heard snippets of the music from this period in documentaries, but I never had a source for it.
I just switched from listening to the likes of Sigur Rós and DJ Tiësto to listening to this music. That’s got to count as a personal record for pop-music era-chnaging in one listening session…
Glad you’re enjoying it . . . I love Billy Murray, one of the most prolific recording stars of the 1910-20 period. Now, excuse me, while I do some housework to the tune of “If I Knock The ‘L’ Out of Kelly.”
Eve, I do believe you are the bee’s knee’s, the veritable cat’s pyjama’s. I have alerted James “The Gallery of Regrettable Food” Lileks, and I expect a royalty when the two of you collaborate on the “Gallery of Regrettable Celebrity” in 2004.
I have a web site that’s similar to Turtle’s Jukebox. It’s called Swazoo Koolak’s Web Jukebox. I remaster records from my collection of 78s and make them available as mp3 and rm files. I rotate the selections, putting up a different twelve records every month. Each month has a different theme - this month is devoted to twenties dance bands.