Popular American Recording Pioneers

1895-1925

Frank Hoffmann, B Lee Cooper, Tim Gracyk

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136592294
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

Encounter the trailblazers whose recordings expanded the boundaries of technology and brought "popular" music into America's living rooms!Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 (winner of the 2001 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research) covers the lives and careers of over one hundred musical artists who were especially important to the recording industry in its early years. Here are the men and women who brought into American homes the hits of the day--Tin Pan Alley numbers, Broadway show tunes, ragtime, parlor ballads, early jazz, and dance music of all kinds.Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 compiles rare information that was scattered in hundreds of record catalogs, hobbyist magazines, newspaper clippings, phonograph trade journals, and other sources. Look no further! This volume is the ultimate resource on the subject!You will increase your knowledge in these areas:

• the recording industry's formative years
• artists'personalities and musical styles
• popular music history
• history of recording technologyPopular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 provides a unique "who's who" approach to popular music history. It is the definitive work on the music that was popular during America's coming of age. No music historian should be without this volume.

Index

“Aba Daba Honeymoon,” 77, 128

Abarbanell, Lina, 19

“Abide with Me”

Richard Jose version, 198

and Olive Kline, 218–219

Kline and Baker version, 37–38, 219

and Frank Stanley, 327

“Abraham,” 68

“Absence Makes the Heart. . . .”, 280

Acme Male Quartet. See Shannon Four

“Across the Great Divide,” 180

Adam, Adolphe, 232

“Admiration,” 112

Aeolian Co.

and Franklyn Baur, 40

and A1 Bernard, 43

and Arthur Fields, 131

and Irving Kaufman, 211

and ODJB, 257

Aesop's Fables, 248

“Africa,” 298

African-American musicians, 101–102, 259. See also Europe, Jim; Williams, Bert

“After the Ball,” 142, 200

“After You've Gone,” 167

“Ah! I Have Sighed to Rest Me,” 141, 160, 218

“Ah! 'Twas a Dream,” 280

“Aileen,” 299

“Ain't It Funny. . . .”, 238

“Ain't Nobody's Darling,” 210

“Ain't We Got Fun?”, 340

Akst, Harry, 378

“Alabama Jubilee,” 77, 81

“Alabama Moon,” 125

“Alabama Walk Around,” 314

“Alabamy Bound,” 32

“Alcoholic Blues,” 209, 241

Aldrich, Richard, 363

Aldridge, Benjamin, 9

“Alec Busby, Don't Go Away,” 235, 237

“Alexander,” 238

Alexander, Alfred. See Burr, Henry

Alexander, George, 137

“Alexander and His Clarinet,” 78

“Alexander's Ragtime Band,” 77–79, 216, 240

“Alibi Blues,” 320

“Alice Blue Gown,” 307

“All Aboard for Dixieland,” 30

“All Aboard for Heaven,” 245

“All Alone,” 240

“All Coons Look. . . .”, 67, 69

“All Going Out. . . .”, 381, 382

“All I Need Is Just a Girl Like You,” 139

“All I Wants Is My Black Baby Back,” 67

“All In, Down and Out,” 69

“All Night Long...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Artists
• Selected Bibliography
• Index