Bix Beiderbecke & Paul Whiteman - Lonely Melody, 1928

Paul Whiteman and His Orch. - Lonely Melody (Coslow) Victor 1928
NOTE: This is side B of a famous Paul Whitemans record: „Ramona"/"Lonely Melody" recorded on January 4, 1928 in New York. Ramona was number one for three weeks on the pop charts. In both tunes Bix Beiderbeckes solos can be heard. If you want to hear the same side played on a 78 turntable Victrola (a bit too slow, though) go to • Paul Whiteman with Bix...

[@brucetaylor5917]

The change in 1925 from acoustic to electric recording demonstrates the single most important step forward in the history of sound recording.

[@jm10014]

Agreed

[@scotnick59]

@@jm10014 Absolutely

[@mainaccount131]

Super excellent with very good interesting photos

[@bartramsell411]

Love the photographs. Goes well with the music.

[@terisamanraotaku8399]

I was born in the decade of the nineties, I heard the current music and I realize I prefer the old music and the more old I like, I see the music videos of this decade and very offensive game and rhythms do not find all pleasant. greetings from Mexico

[@jeffreycraven8154]

Teris Amanra Otaku, I was born in the late 1950s, started playing my grandparent's 78 rpm records when I was 3 years old, broke about three by accident. First time I played Lonely Melody I was preschool and I still love it, but never play the 78 anymore since I've got it on CD, before that on LP. Yes I agree pop music of today, to put it plainly, sucks. Best wishes, Jeff Craven from the USA.

[@bernardfrederick9462]

I agree

[@msjazzmeblues]

I love Bix's solos on this song and Steve Brown's bass all the way through!

[@jamesw.logiejr7760]

my mother gave me the 3 Columbia records featuring Bix for Christmas in 1950, still have them and play them, my brother gave me the Playboy video biography about Bix for Christmas, I know have a dvd copy, for me " Bix lives, and always will.

[@240252]

Yes, I decided to upload one more Whiteman's piece first: because it is nort only Whiteman who makes this music great, but also - Bix. And second - that Coslow's composition has some inner nervous note, some hidden vigour mixed with a "metropolitan" malencholy. All that matched the old photos of Manhattan very well

[@historygeeek]

@240252 I had a gallery showing of some of my painted black and white photographs about 15 years ago. I selected this tune as the theme. It played over and over from a 1936 Air Castle radio in the corner of the gallery. It just felt right.... :)

[@Dagarvs]

super tune, amazing slide show- had to scroll up just to get away from it, first listening! great job!!

[@historygeeek]

@240252 Share your sentiments as often as you can, Please Sir. We need them now more than ever. America was once a country of Idealists. Craftsmen. people of vision. It's all gone now. You remember what is was really like to live in a country that was unbeaten. Thank you for taking us there!

[@240252]

Genia, Rudy and I only once flew around those eagle's heads in our little french avionette and I still feel cadaverous chill in my blood when I remember that trip. Never again! After we landed we had to get stone drunk at "Cinderella" (Broadway/48th) where at last The Wolverines' jazz put us back to life again

[@mainaccount131]

Wonderful melodies

[@davidanderson9036]

Sharing a "good old good one" from 1928 in honor of my "unbirthday." It sounds just as wonderful as it did the first time I heard it back in 1963!

[@jeffreycraven8154]

240252, soon will discontinue my longtime internet provider, but you're the first channel I resubscribed to under my new account. I probably did something bass ackwards and will lose all my playlists, but I'll build them up again. Love your channel.

[@paulaoshaughnessy3154]

So evocative. It reminds me of my grandad. A sad end for poor Bix though. He died young of alcoholism. A life lost. Let’s remember him

[@Corrie121]

Great post. Like the pics, but I almost fell from my chair when viewing them. Could be vertigo - caused by seeing these guys perched high above the ground !! Thanks for sharing.

[@Bradshaw_Staudt]

Dont you wanna grow up to be just like me?

[@AdamRamet]

Wow! The melody is taken from Alfred Grunfeld's "Kleine Serenade"

[@guntherdertz9554]

Will look him up danka

[@historygeeek]

@240252 Back then a Blue Collar American Male would clean up and put on a suit and tie to take his girl out to dinner on friday night....... A nightclub in 1939 would have had many "classes" of people in them. But it would have been difficult to tell the difference by how they dressed and conducted themselves. There were standards then. It had nothing to do with how much money you made.

[@HarborGuy]

Whiteman come thru again......Great arrangements and great band sound. Love the pictures.......

[@WilliamFogle]

I love this video!

[@TheBanana212_]

Real ones know it from the Role Model music video

[@240252]

Thanks! :-)

[@240252]

Hello Corrie, I hope your vertigo was not too serious! Well, I can understand it very well as all my live I've been suffering from a terrible high anxiety. In the times when the tv antennae were installed high on the rooftops, I was not able even to think,I could climb up the staircase and do it myself. So, just the imagining it could be me who's sitting high there under the clouds, on the eagle's head ..or enjoying myself on the skyscraper's scaffolding with aglass of champaigne , make me sick

[@240252]

@historygeeek Thank you for your warm and sorrowful comment. I share your deep feelings about America. And I unite my tears with yours over what's been lost forever from American spirit and the values that were once fundamental for that brave and clever nation. The greed and lust for domination corrodes that once beautiful soul.

[@pennagain6207]

The spirit is never lost. One of the places it hides is in its music. Just keep listeninig.

[@stevemwolf]

Solid gate!

[@carlosjorgemartinez2742]

BIX insuperable.

[@dick12235]

Thanks, Nice Treat.

[@240252]

Thanks julitajuli for that poem! Was James Weldon Johnson the first Afro American professor of literature at NY University?

[@fabioleoni7512]

First time I heard this piece I felt proiected in a New York street.

[@paulaoshaughnessy3154]

So true! It transports you to another time and place..

[@fatsfan70]

Hello Gregorz, I took the liberty of using your name when commenting on Bigband Lou's posting of the same Whiteman 'Lonely Melody' eleven years ago. Lou has just replied to my comment after all these years! I hope I was correct in my reply. Best wishes, Mike.

[@240252]

Hi Mike, I am so glad to hear our good old gang of the 78s promotors from years ago goes on riding. Let's keep it up, guys! :-)

[@carrollbottom184]

My t fine thanks

[@shipnerd62962]

1:20 is the St. John's Bridge in Portland, OR under construction

[@EricScottReed]

The intro - a tip o' the hat to Irving Berlin's "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" (1919)?

[@gorigorirarara893]

Eminem brought me here

[@dannemannalfredocurt]

toda esta musica sin bix beiderb ecke erra algo no soportble para unjzzista pero la corneta de bix y su solo lo hace increible

[@mrjimmienoone2130]

There is no Beiderbecke solo on "Ramona".

[@stephencooper7620]

1:22 to 2:03

[@mjazzguitar]

Mezz Mezzrow mentions Bix Beiderbecke a lot in his book, "Really the Blues".

[@jas026able]

Mezz, the Jew from Chicago who turned on Harlem to tea.

[@mjazzguitar]

"Grab a taste of millennium, gate."

[@jas026able]

I adore Bix and this selection, Lonely Melody.

[@mjazzguitar]

He and Louis Armstrong were pretty tight. He recounted being at a nightclub with a black date and somehow they wound up switching seats. After drinking he wound up vomiting on the floor; he had drunk a Mickey Finn intended for her. IIRC one of the Europeans he was with said "Land of the free, home of the brave, eh?"

[@jas026able]

Never heard that account. Source? I'm interested in the friendships, gigs between blacks and whites that get filtered out of race-based discussions. Harry Carney, Duke Ellington's longest serving baritone sax player credits his technique in the lower register to Adrian Rollini, bass sax, who played with Goldkette, Red Nichols Fred Elizade and others. Armstrong says that when he heard Bix "those sweet sounds went right through me." My father played banjo in the late teens and early twenties.

[@VenDettaEDITZ]

Who’s here cause of Eminem Role model ???

[@J-Ren.Ninobla]

Eminem's "Role Model" Original Music Video brought me here...

[@gabortudos7461]

Yesyesyeeeeessss! Saaaame! 😂

[@xxxibfntstic]

Role model - Eminem❤

[@jsg6532774]

Yes what happened? I'm 58 and well remember the way people conducted themselves once, its a combination of uneducated people having children mixed with an "i don't care " attitude, and people from other lands that come over here to rape our resources and not really care about neighbors or this country, its a broken down society, even if your rich its not the same,,,at least one can get pleasure from this great music and photos.

[@pennagain6207]

It's okay, jsg. People from other lands made this country too, cared for its resources and became our neighbors ... and ragtime and jazz fans. I know: my grandparents were among them. American music is a great leveler and it touches those who love their country best.

[@guntherdertz9554]

@@pennagain6207 you are so right!

[@YkpJ351]

Eminem role model song when he drowns himself

[@robchalfen]

Bix doesn't solo on Ramona, it's just an overstuffed piece of parlor cheeze

[@MADCOLLECTOR101Music]

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