{"id":1122,"date":"2013-06-17T20:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T01:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2019-12-03T20:11:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T02:11:54","slug":"happy-music-from-the-depression-1930s-crown-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Happy Music From The Depression &#8211; 1930s Crown Label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MattGuestCrown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1123\" src=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MattGuestCrown.jpg\" alt=\"MattGuestCrown\" width=\"485\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MattGuestCrown.jpg 485w, http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MattGuestCrown-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;The One Man Band&#8221;<br \/>\nThe High Steppers<br \/>\n1931 (Crown 3064 A mx 1151)<br \/>\n<a id=\"mbmaplayer_1371515030403\" class=\"{skin:'black', animate:true, width:'200', volume:0.6, autoplay:false, loop:false, showVolumeLevel:true, showTime:true, showRew:true, downloadable:false, downloadablesecurity:false, id3: false}\" href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/The-High-Steppers-The-One-Man-Band.mp3\">The One Man Band &#8211; The High Steppers<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Hey Young Fella&#8221;<br \/>\nDick Robertson &amp; His Orchestra;\u00a0 Dick Robertson, vocal<br \/>\n1933 (Crown 3440 A mx 1964)<br \/>\n<a id=\"mbmaplayer_1371515173121\" class=\"{skin:'black', animate:true, width:'200', volume:0.6, autoplay:false, loop:false, showVolumeLevel:true, showTime:true, showRew:true, downloadable:false, downloadablesecurity:false, id3: false}\" href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Dick-Robertson-His-Orchestra-Hey-Young-Fella.mp3\">Hey Young Fella &#8211; Dick Robertson &amp; His Orchestra<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I Thank You Mr Moon&#8221;<br \/>\nRuss Carlson &amp; His Orchestra<br \/>\n1932 (Crown 3259 A mx 1612)<br \/>\n<a id=\"mbmaplayer_1371515346002\" class=\"{skin:'black', animate:true, width:'200', volume:0.6, autoplay:false, loop:false, showVolumeLevel:true, showTime:true, showRew:true, downloadable:false, downloadablesecurity:false, id3: false}\" href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Russ-Carleson-His-Orch-I-Thank-You-Mr-Moon.mp3\">I Thank You Mr Moon &#8211; Russ Carleson &amp; His Orch<\/a><textarea class=\"map_params\" style=\"display: block; padding: 3px; background: #444; color: #fff; text-decoration: none;\" disabled=\"disabled\">map :: {skin:&#8217;black&#8217;, animate:true, width:&#8217;200&#8242;, volume:0.6, autoplay:false, loop:false, showVolumeLevel:true, showTime:true, showRew:true, downloadable:false, downloadablesecurity:false, id3: false}<\/textarea><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two Buck Tim From Timbucktoo&#8221;<br \/>\nTommy Tucker &amp; His Californians;\u00a0 Tommy Tucker, vocal<br \/>\n1933 (Crown 3479 A mx 2034)<br \/>\n<a id=\"mbmaplayer_1371515524247\" class=\"{skin:'black', animate:true, width:'200', volume:0.6, autoplay:false, loop:false, showVolumeLevel:true, showTime:true, showRew:true, downloadable:false, downloadablesecurity:false, id3: false}\" href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Tommy-Tucker-His-Californians-Two-Buck-Tim-From-Timbucktoo.mp3\">Two Buck Tim From Timbucktoo &#8211; Tommy Tucker &amp; His Californians<\/a><textarea class=\"map_params\" style=\"display: block; padding: 3px; background: #444; color: #fff; text-decoration: none;\" disabled=\"disabled\">map :: {skin:&#8217;black&#8217;, animate:true, width:&#8217;200&#8242;, volume:0.6, autoplay:false, loop:false, showVolumeLevel:true, showTime:true, showRew:true, downloadable:false, downloadablesecurity:false, id3: false}<\/textarea><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Kentucky Bids The World Good Morning&#8221;<br \/>\nThe High Steppers<br \/>\n1930 (Crown 3031 A mx 1070)<br \/>\n<a id=\"mbmaplayer_1371515736714\" class=\"{skin:'black', animate:true, width:'200', volume:0.6, autoplay:false, loop:false, showVolumeLevel:true, showTime:true, showRew:true, downloadable:false, downloadablesecurity:false, id3: false}\" href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/The-High-Steppers-When-Kentucky-Bids-The-World-Good-Morning.mp3\">When Kentucky Bids The World Good Morning &#8211; The High Steppers<\/a><textarea class=\"map_params\" style=\"display: block; padding: 3px; background: #444; color: #fff; text-decoration: none;\" disabled=\"disabled\">map :: {skin:&#8217;black&#8217;, animate:true, width:&#8217;200&#8242;, volume:0.6, autoplay:false, loop:false, showVolumeLevel:true, showTime:true, showRew:true, downloadable:false, downloadablesecurity:false, id3: false}<\/textarea><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These selections come courtesy of guest contributor Matt From College Station (Now From Florida).\u00a0\u00a0 When Matt returned for a visit to Texas over the Christmas holidays he brought along a large stack of records for the Radio Dismuke New Year&#8217;s broadcast as well as others for me to digitize.<\/p>\n<p>All of these recordings are from the Crown label, a budget priced label sold through the F.W. Woolworth dime store chain.\u00a0 The label began in late 1930 and ceased operations by the end of summer 1933.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One Man Band&#8221; was composed by bandleaders Ted Weems and Phil Baxter and was first introduced by the Ted Weems Orchestra.\u00a0\u00a0 The song was a follow-up on a couple of other highly successful Weems-Baxter compositions &#8220;Piccolo Pete&#8221; and &#8220;Harmonica Harry.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Whoever originally owned this particular copy must have loved this recording as much as I do\u00a0 &#8211; it is <em>very<\/em> worn and was obviously played many times with the heavy tone arm and steel needles of the era&#8217;s wind-up phonographs.\u00a0\u00a0 Happily my\u00a0 equipment was able to clean the transfer up far better than I had expected given the condition of the record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey Young Fellow&#8221; was introduced in the 1933 Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Clark Gable film <em><a title=\"Dancing Lady\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dancing_Lady\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dancing Lady<\/a> &#8211; <\/em>an early musical talkie that is actually worth watching for more than just the musical numbers.\u00a0 In the film the song is performed only very briefly by a chorus of burlesque dancers.\u00a0\u00a0 This version is a charming Depression era &#8220;cheer up&#8221; song &#8211; and Dick Robertson was a perfect choice for the vocal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two Buck Tim From Timbucktoo&#8221; was recorded by a number of bands in both the US and the UK.\u00a0 This Crown version has some nice hot jazz solos preceding the vocal.<\/p>\n<p>I digitized many more records on both Crown and other labels when Matt visited and will include some in future updates.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The One Man Band&#8221; The High Steppers 1931 (Crown 3064 A mx 1151) The One Man Band &#8211; The High Steppers &#8220;Hey Young Fella&#8221; Dick Robertson &amp; His Orchestra;\u00a0 Dick Robertson, vocal 1933 (Crown 3440 A mx 1964) Hey Young &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,9,16,22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6lko4-i6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}