(Bing Crosby and a host of other singers join the jazz-age...)
Bing Crosby and a host of other singers join the jazz-age giant on this CD packed with hits from 1927-35. Here are his hits Makin' Whoopee; Your Mother and Mine; Anything Goes; You're the Top; I Get a Kick Out of You , and more!
(Paul Whiteman Anthology Part 4 1924
1-VIC 19267 CALIFORNI...)
Paul Whiteman Anthology Part 4 1924
1-VIC 19267 CALIFORNIA,HERE I COME 02/01/24 29334 JOLSON-DE SYLVA-MEYER
2-VIC 19339 IT HAD TO BE YOU 04/08/24 29779 KAHN-JONES
3-VIC 19339 HOODOO MAN 05/09/24 29956 BROWN
4-VIC 19345 PALE MOON 04/08/24 29778 GLICK-LOGAN
5-VIC 19389 DIXIE'S FAVOURITE SON 06/18/24 30302 BROWN-VON TILZER
6-VIC 19391 BY THE WATERS OF MINNETONKA 06/11/24 30177 LIEURANCE-GROFE
7-VIC 19391 WHERE THE RAINBOW ENDS 05/09/24 29983 GREY-AYER
8-VIC 19420 LITTLE OLD CLOCK ON THE MANTLE 08/13/24 30636 KAHN-FIORITO
9-VIC 19462 ELIZA 09/18/24 30831 KAHN-FIORITO
10-VIC 19517 TELL HER IN THE SPRINGTIME 11/17/24 31414 BERLIN
11-VIC 19517 INDIAN LOVE CALL 11/17/24 31415 HARBACH-HAMMERSTEIN-FRIML
12-VIC 19533 I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS 12/26/24 31534 KAHN-JONES
13-VIC 19557 ALABAMMY BOUND 12/29/24 31556 DE SYLVA-BROWN-HENDERSON
14-VIC 19299 LAZY 03/18/24 29700 BERLIN
15-VIC 19299 WHAT'LL I DO? 03/18/24 29599 BERLIN
16-VIC 19330 SPAIN 04/24/24 29933 KAHN-JONES
17-VIC 19330 MR.RADIO MAN 04/24/24 29932 SCHUSTER-WHITE-FRIEND
18-VIC 19381 SAN 06/09/24 30172 MCPHAIL-MICHELS
19-VIC 19381 I CAN'T GET THE ONE I WANT 06/11/24 30175 ROSE-RUBY-HANDMAN
20-VIC 19487 ALL ALONE 09/12/24 30187 BERLIN
21-VIC 19461 MY ROAD 09/15/24 30822 CONNELLY-KAUFMAN-GENSLER
22-VIC 19461 ROSE MARIE 09/18/24 30832 HARBACH-HAMMERSTEIN-FRIML
23-VIC 19267 WHY DID I KISS THAT GIRL? AMERICAN QUARTET 02/01/24 29375 BROWN-KING-HENDERSON
24-VIC 19389 WALLA WALLA BILLY MURRAY 06/18/24 30301 MURPHI-ROBI
25-VIC 19462 DOO WACKA DOO BILLY MURRAY 09/05/24 30698 GASKILL-DONALDSON
26-VIC 19252 SO THIS IS VENICE! ED SMALLE 01/11/24 29303 CLARKE-LESLIE-WARREN
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Paul Whiteman Anthology #1 1920 - 1922 Please copy and print this enhanced track list for your reference.
1-VIC 18690 JAPANESE SANDMAN 08/19/20 24390 EGAN-WHITING
2-VIC 18690 WHISPERING 08/23/20 24393 MALVIN-SCHOENBERGER
3-VIC 18694 WANG WANG BLUES 08/09/20 24392 MUELLER-JOHNSON-BUSSE
4-VIC 18694 ANYTIME,ANYDAY,ANYWHERE 08/23/20 24400 KORTLANDER
5-VIC 18734 I NEVER KNEW 12/29/20 24808 PITTS-EGAN-MARSH
6-VIC 18777 CHO CHO SAN 05/18/21 25307 PUCCINI
7-VIC 18777 SONG OF INDIA 05/31/21 25322 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
8-VIC 18824 CANADIAN CAPERS 10/05/21 25634 CHANDLER-WHITE-COHAN
9-VIC 18826 EVERYBODY STEP 10/21/21 25664 BERLIN
10-VIC 18825 WEEP NO MORE(MY MAMMY) 10/21/21 25663 LEW POLLACK
11-VIC 18825 APRIL SHOWERS 10/27/21 25675 LOUIS-SILVERS
12-VIC 18826 KA-LU-A BLUE DANUBE BLUES 11/04/21 25692 KERN
13-VIC 18856 DEAR OLD SOUTHLAND 12/23/21 26001 CREAMER-LAYTON
14-VIC 18734 DO YOU EVER THINK OF ME? 02/01/21 24921 BURNETT-SCHONBERG-KERR
15-VIC 18737 HUMMING 02/25/21 24864 BREAU-HENDERSON
16-VIC 18737 MY MAMMY 03/01/21 24863 DONALDSON-LEWIS-YOUNG
17-VIC 35708 ALL FOR YOU/HAPPINESS 03/16/21 25005 JOHNSON-MORGAN
18-VIC 18758 MY MAN 04/04/21 25026 WILLEMETZ-CHARLES-YVAIN
19-VIC 18758 CHERIE 07/21/21 25049 IRVING BIBO
20-VIC 18856 THEY CALL IT DANCING 01/06/22 26008 BERLIN
21-VIC 18872 JIMMY 02/10/22 26085 TREBLA-CAPIE
22-VIC 18872 AFTER THE RAIN 02/14/22 26092 SIZEMORE-SHRIGLEY
23-VIC 18880 BYGONES 02/14/22 26093 KORTLANDER-ALPERT
24-VIC 18880 BY THE SAPPHIRE SEA 02/22/22 26213 SNYDER
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Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra: Recordings of 1921-1934
(Few people have had the impact on American musical taste ...)
Few people have had the impact on American musical taste that Paul Whiteman did in the 1920s, a direct result of his own energy and remarkably open tastes. He had a rare ability to lend an air of authority to novelty, somehow fusing the appeals of elitism and populism. This is an exceptionally good collection of Whiteman's work from 1921 to 1934, giving unusual insight into the range of his work. There are versions of the hits that launched his career--"Japanese Sandman" and "Whispering"--as well as engaging period pop tunes like "Dinah" and "Sweet Sue." Jazz flavorings appear in "Mississippi Mud," and there are also light classics like Franz Lehar's "Merry Widow Waltz" and Liszt's "Liebestraum." What's particularly striking, however, is Whiteman's fascination with composers straddling the realms of serious and popular music. His fondness for coloristic suites ranges from Ferde Grofé's "Three Shades of Blue" to Victor Herbert's "Suite of Serenades" with different national inspirations. He was an avid sponsor of George Gershwin's orchestral impressionism, and it's heard here in both the sway of "South Sea Isles" and one of Whiteman's several recordings of "Rhapsody in Blue." --Stuart Broomer
Paul Samuel Whiteman was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director and violinist.
Background
Whiteman was born on March 28, 1890 in Denver, Colorado. He came from a musical family: his mother Elfrida was a former opera singer, and his father, Wilburforce James Whiteman was the supervisor of music for the Denver Public Schools, a position he held for fifty years.
His father insisted that he learn an instrument, preferably the violin. But young Paul preferred the viola, and that was what he learned to play.
His father, Wilberforce Whiteman, was a supervisor of music in the Denver public school system, and his mother and sister were vocalists.
Whiteman’s father used to lock young Paul in the house sewing room with his violin to make him practice, but his son rebelled by smashing the instrument to pieces.
Career
By smoothing over jazz’s rough edges, Whiteman made the genre more respectable to the average listener while at the same time inviting the scorn of jazz purists.
Whiteman’s debut commercial release, “Whispering, ” was one of the first records to sell over one million copies.
His band recorded more than 200 hits through 1936 that included “Hot Lips, ” “Three O’Clock in the Morning, ” “My Blue Heaven, ” “OI Man River, ” “All of Me, ” and “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. ”
“Three O’Clock in the Morning” sold 3. 4 million copies and made Whiteman rich.
Whiteman was surrounded by musical influences as a child.
Whiteman later bought himself a viola and then revealed a genuine musical talent.
As a teenager he played first viola in the Denver Symphony Orchestra, then performed with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra after moving to California in 1914.
While in California Whiteman became hooked on the rhythm of jazz after hearing some combos perform in local clubs.
Persuaded to bring his sound back east, Whiteman and his band played at the opening of the Ambassador Hotel in Atlantic City in 1920.
Later that same year Whiteman moved to New York City and began a long engagement at the Palais Royal on Broadway.
Impressed Titans of “Serious” Music
In 1924 Whiteman gave his “concert jazz” a higher profile with a memorable performance at Aeolian Hall, a celebrated venue for classical music in New York City.
Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, and Sergei Rachmaninoff were among the notables in the audience impressed by Whiteman’s music.
He made his debut on Broadway in George White’s Scandals of 1922, which featured music by Gershwin, and later appeared in Florenz Zieg-feld’s “Follies” productions.
His band was at its best in terms of musical talent by the end of the 1926, when it included Beiderbecke on trumpet, Eddie Lang on guitar, Jimmy Dorsey on saxophone, Tommy Dorsey on trombone, and Bill Challis as arranger.
He made the move to radio in the early 1936, launching the Kraft Music Hall on NBC with Al Jolson in 1933 and later hosting his own programs.
But by the mid-1936 his reign as the “King of Jazz” began to be threatened by the swing bands of Benny Goodman and the big band jazz of Don Redman, Fletcher Henderson, and others.
Whiteman began to sound dated, and his attempts to reorganize his band to adapt to the swing era did not succeed.
He broke up the group in 1940, only to form a new one the following year. The Whiteman sound regained some status in the early 1946 with songs such as Travelin’ Light, which featured a vocal by Billie Holiday.
That year he began the Philco Radio Hall of Fame, which ran for seven years.
From the 1956 on Whiteman’s main activity was serving as musical director of ABC in New York City.
He did little composing or arranging on his own but surrounded himself with people who could—and with musicians who ranked among the best.
Quotations:
“Jazz was beginning to be popular, and I made the surprising discovery that, while I was able to earn only $40 a week in the symphony, I could get $90 playing what was then called ‘jazz’ fiddle, ” said Whiteman, according to Thomas A. DeLong in Pops: Paul Whiteman, King of Jazz. Whiteman was fired from his first job with a jazz band because he couldn’t adapt to their style of music.
Whiteman’s dance band introduced his original brand of “symphonic jazz, ” which began winning over the public with performances at the Hotel Alexandria in Los Angeles, a hot spot that attracted famous guests of the era such as film luminaries Charles Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks.
Membership
His skill at playing the viola led him to an opportunity to perform in the Denver Symphony Orchestra; he was a member from 1907, and in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from 1914.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
The bandleader was quoted in the New York Times as having said: “You’ll never learn to bounce in jazz if you don’t know your Bach and Beethoven. ”
As Albert McCarthy wrote in The Dance Band Era, “It is probably true that Whiteman succeeded best when his own inclinations towards ’symphonic jazz’ were least in evidence….
Connections
Whiteman was married four times; to Nellie Stack in 1908; to Miss Jimmy Smith; to Mildred Vanderhoff in 1922. He had a son, Paul Whiteman, Jr. , with Mildred Vanderhoff. In 1931 Whiteman married motion picture actress Margaret Livingston following his divorce from Vanderhoff that same year. They had three daughters, Margo, Julie, and Jan. The marriage to Livingston lasted until his death.