1927
If I had a time machine I’d leave for there today.
I actually met the gal that sang this song in the 1929 film version of “Rio Rita.”
Ben Selvin’s studio orchestra recorded hundreds upon hundreds of recordings, often using pseudonyms because he was so prolific. But most were in the mid-1920s to early-1930s. Sometimes he’d hire familiar jazzmen to sit in and serve up solos for his recordings, like Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden and such.
Great fun music!!
A great little radio station in nearby Olympia plays this type of music - nothing newer than the 1950’s. Listener supported with no commercials, streaming from their web site at kbrd.org.
Thanks. Great music. “Don’t make ‘em like they used to springs to mind.”
I always wonder if female beauty standards have changed — women in the 20s seem so plain. Maybe the lookers stayed on the farm because there wasn’t so much siren call of stardom at the time. Or women were more respectable and weren’t drawn to beauty pageants and dance halls.