Judge — September 13, 1919 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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ea Drown by Hemwax Patwer Best Kidded Classics HERE is no supplying the demand for dance records. A prominent dealer of the South told us recently that no matter how heavily he stocked up on the new dance numbers, his supply would always be exhausted early in the month. Readers have written in asking us cehere they could possibly get such-and- such records that we had listed. They had tried everywhere that they could think of, only to be told: “Sorry, but we are out of that just now. To meet this enormous demand it is not only the factories that are worked to the limit. Composers and arrangers must do likewise. New tunes! More tunes! Besides straight dance pieces, songs from vaudeville and musical comedy are adapted and strung together into fox trot and one- step medleys. en then there aren’t tunes enough. So the august classics are shaken out of their exclusiveness. “Peer Gynt” is joyously ragged into “Peter sink.” The Carmen “Habenera” is ap- propriated for the opening of ‘Ruspana.” Rachmaninoff’s C Sharp Minor Prelude is hustled into “Russian Rag.” When the trick is done cleverly, humor- ously enough to justify the impertinence, the result is indeed amusing. Otherwise the indignation of the sensitive music lover rises withm him. Ragless waltz adaptations may also be quite effective. Nevins’s “Sweetest Li'l’ Feller” in 3-4 time was charming. On the other hand, a recent attempt to make a waltz of Massenet’s “Elégie’’ proved a dismal desecration. ‘Dear Old Pal of Mine,” again, turned out to be delightful in dance form. But spare us Beethoven’s Symphonie: Dance ‘umental Medley fox trot. L Played by the Happy Six Played by Wae'dor{-A tor Tue Vamr. One-step. ia Singing Orchestra. Columbia 2753 A bully good fox trot, played with snap and ept during a passage where the piano holds full’ sway, the drummer ts exceptionally active in egging on the melody with nifty noises ‘The finale is fresh and original. The jocund sextet well deserve their title. On the reverse | Beutxo Your Stuxex V Disco’s SELECTIONS Vaude- Disco's the consecutige weekly headings: “Dance,” “Concert.” and “Opera,” ii ts appear regularly in JUD He makes a careful study of all the standard records as issued, and from these chooses the few which he considers most desirable. This week he selects from the month's Dance records Disco gladly answers questions regarding phono- sraphs and records of all makes. He will tell you chick artists hace recotded your favorite selections and thick companies have issued them. In toriting, enclose self-addressed encelope for reply Under and we have the livest one-step of the hour, with singing most of the way through. A trifle congested, however. Good, but not quite up to the Waldorf people’s best work. Yet, all things considered, this is a record which should prove decidedly popular. Coo-Coo. Fox trot Orchestra. Castur Vatse Crasstove. Xylophone solo by ge Hamilton Green ners 1036. First appearance in Phonographdom of an exceedingly danceable new for trot. Comical (oo-coos punctuate the tune from time to time, the way the me-otes did in the one-step of that name. “Castle Valse Classique.” the clever xylophone edition of Dvorak’s “Humoresque” for waltz purposes, was issucd by Emerson some time ago, but that does not prevent its making a compatible mate for the coo-coo. | Fiocery Feer. One-step. Lazy Davpy. Fox trot. Played by Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Victor 18564. Admirably lucid jazz. In the average records of catchy cacophony, the individual instruments betray a lack of brotherly love. They crowd and jostle and try to drown each other out, so that the affair settles down toa merciless struggle for the survival of the blatantest. In. this record, however, individuality is tempered with altruism, zeal for the common good. Indeed Played by Emerson Dance Photo by Bax News Seavice A Brown Srupy. Tue Six B. B.'s Excuancixe THe Orenine Stcxat: “Toor Sweer.” r {Have a Satre. j7 Teut Me. Masmy 0° Luverne. ut Say Sue Does. Warne Tuur Tose. G of the New Phonograph Records we have here an embodiment of the Socialist ideal—except that everybody is working. Frisco’s Krrcwex Stove Rac. Fox trot Soveauixc Pic Buves. Fox trot. Played / Dabney's Band. Acolian-Vocalion Brazen and unashamed, and c youth into the way of fox trotting. Medley fox trot Rusrana. One-step. Aecordio Victor 18563. Pietro is an exacting taskmaster. He squec es out of his single accordion the work of a whol band. “Have a Smile,” indeed! It can’t b natural for such a hard-pressed instrument t be so cheerful and vivacious. And yet, in this heartless world, people dance while such thi go on Fox trot Wilbur Columbia Fox trot Original Jaz Played : tman’s Band. Since last heard from, Mistah Sweatman has added unto himself a banjo-mandolin and tamed some of the fury of his jazzifiers, but without actually breaking their spirit. Also he has giv en the piano its head. His new policy seems t be: gay and grotesque, but not rowdy. ‘The two selections on this record are alive with ingenuity. We wonder if next month he will have added a purling flute and a tinkling harp Peter Gink. One-step. GYPTLAND. Fox trot Brothers. Victor 18562. Busy drones. Saxophony version of the “Peer Gynt” burlesque. We believe Griecy himself would have forgiven the Browns if he had heard them. But they, preferring to play safe, jump from Scandinavia clear to Egyptland Fox trot Mixe. Medly fox trot. Played + Emerson Military Band. Emerson 1034 Liberated from their cheaply sentimental words, maudlin songs may be completely. re deemed as dances. Such is the case with thes« “Mammy o' Mine” is varied by “Idol” and Longing.” Played in excellent tempo c-Lixc Toy. Fox trot. tne Laxterxs Grow. — One-stey Played by Columbia Saxophone Sextet. C: 4 Played by Six Bi not quite up to their phenomonall good first record, issued last month, this doub! offering by the Columbia Saxophone Sextet is decidedly good. As an innovation, there are piato interludes and ensembles—n speak of the voice of Henry Burr, whom « seem to recall having heard somewhere before Fox trot. Played by Emerse Dance Orchestra raseo Licutxixc. One-step. lo b Hamilton Green. Ei “Tulip Time” is the outstanding dance tur of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919. Itis in the ree lation fox trot mould. Played with verve ar touched up with xylophone counter rhythm (Continued on page 34)