Fred Lamire and his Twins: Mighty Lak’ a Rose / Dream Kisses – 1928 Fred Lamire and his Twins perform Mighty Lak’ a Rose and Dream Kisses from 1928. “Fred plucks giant floor banjo while his sons strum a lively duet.”
MORE ...Estudiantina Invencibal: El Fiel Enamorado (The Faithful Lover) – 1929 It is often wrongly assumed that estudian-inos were “student” bands when really they were just another expression of the same Cuban music tradition as the Sextetos and Septetos. The main differences were that the number of musicians in estudiantinas was not fixed at 6 or […]
MORE ...A field recording from an unknown band recorded singing “Mary Don’t You Weep” shot in the 1920’s. Oh, Mary, don’t you weep, don’t you mourn Oh, Mary, don’t you weep, don’t you mourn Pharaoh’s army got drowned-ed. Oh, Mary, don’t weep Oh, Mary, don’t you weep, don’t you mourn. Oh, Mary, don’t you weep, don’t […]
MORE ...A preview of Cecil B. DeMille’s upcoming film, The King of Kings … “the picture that will live forever.” DeMille hypes his 1927 spectacle, “magnificently portrayed by an inspiring cast of 5000 players,” by stressing the epic proportion of these biblical episodes rather than the story itself. Both producer and director of King of Kings, […]
MORE ...
