{"id":151,"date":"2011-08-08T01:45:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T06:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2019-12-03T18:49:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T00:49:41","slug":"harry-bidgood-and-his-broadcasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Harry Bidgood And His Broadcasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Broadcast209A.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152\" title=\"Broadcast 209 A\" src=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Broadcast209A.jpg\" alt=\"Broadcast 209 A\" width=\"345\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Broadcast209A.jpg 345w, http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Broadcast209A-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following You Around&#8221;<br \/>\nHarry Bidgood And His Broadcasters<br \/>\n1928 (Broadcast 209 A)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Harry-Bidgood-And-His-Broadcasters-Following-You-Around.mp3\">Harry Bidgood And His Broadcasters &#8211; Following You Around]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are You Happy&#8221;<br \/>\nHarry Bidgood And His Broadcasters<br \/>\n1928 (Broadcast 209 B)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Harry-Bidgood-And-His-Broadcasters-Are-You-Happy.mp3\">Harry Bidgood And His Broadcasters &#8211; Are You Happy]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Riff Song&#8221;<br \/>\nHarry Bidgood And His Broadcasters<br \/>\n1927 (Broadcast 125 mx Z41)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Harry-Bidgood-And-His-Broadcasters-The-Riff-Song.mp3\">Harry Bidgood And His Broadcasters &#8211; The Riff Song]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the mid to late 1920s Harry Bidgood led the in-house studio band for Vocalion Records in England (its former parent, the American Vocalion label, was acquired by Brunswick in 1925).\u00a0\u00a0 In 1927 Vocalion decided to discontinue its namesake label replacing it with the new Broadcast label.\u00a0\u00a0 Broadcast records were eight inch (later on, nine inch) records which, through the use of slightly narrower grooves, offered the same playing time as standard sized 10 inch records.<\/p>\n<p>Bidgood also recorded under a number of pseudonyms including The New York Nightbirds, Ciro&#8217;s Club Band, The Manhattan Melody Makers, Al Benny&#8217;s Broadway Boys, Nat Lewis and his Dance Band and Primo Scala and his Accordion Band.<\/p>\n<p>I very much enjoy the sound of the Bidgood band during this period. The first two selections presented here have lots of great 1920s pep, cheer and charm.\u00a0\u00a0 The third song,\u00a0 &#8220;The Riff Song,&#8221; comes from the Sigmund Romberg operetta <a title=\"Wikipedia Article\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Desert_Song\"><em>The Desert Song<\/em><\/a> which opened on Broadway in November 1926 with a London production opening in April 1927.<\/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;Following You Around&#8221; Harry Bidgood And His Broadcasters 1928 (Broadcast 209 A) Harry Bidgood And His Broadcasters &#8211; Following You Around] &#8220;Are You Happy&#8221; Harry Bidgood And His Broadcasters 1928 (Broadcast 209 B) Harry Bidgood And His Broadcasters &#8211; Are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=151\">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":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[12,23,15,18,22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6lko4-2r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}