{"id":353,"date":"2011-08-22T00:15:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T05:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2019-12-03T19:37:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:37:18","slug":"whistling-rufus-down-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"“Whistling Rufus” & “Down South”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zonophone<\/a><\/p>\n

“Whistling Rufus”
\nInternational Novelty Quartette
\n1930 (\u00a0Zonophone 5566 mx Yy18249)
\nInternational Novelty Quartette – Whistling Rufus]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Down South”
\nInternational Novelty Quartette
\n1930 (Zonophone 5566 mx Yy18246)
\nInternational Novelty Quartette – Down South]<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a very charming British salon music record I recently acquired.\u00a0 My guess is the International Novelty Quartette consisted of in-house studio musicians for the Gramophone Co, parent company of the HMV and Zonophone labels.\u00a0 I especially enjoy the use of the xylophone on both selections.<\/p>\n

“Whistling Rufus”was written in 1899 by American composer Kerry Mills<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Mills wrote a number of famous songs including “Meet Me In St. Louis” “At A Georgia Camp Meeting” and “Red Wing.”<\/p>\n

“Down South” (the song is often listed with a subtitle of “An American Sketch” dates back to 1901 and was written by British composer W. H. Myddleton.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to being a composer, Myddleton was also a conductor, a novelist, a dramatist and an astronomer.\u00a0 He sometimes composed under the pen name Arnold Safroni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Whistling Rufus” International Novelty Quartette 1930 (\u00a0Zonophone 5566 mx Yy18249) International Novelty Quartette – Whistling Rufus] “Down South” International Novelty Quartette 1930 (Zonophone 5566 mx Yy18246) International Novelty Quartette – Down South] Here is a very charming British salon music … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":[13,15,22,5,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6lko4-5H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}