Charleston + Waitin' For The Moon (1925) Savoy Orpheans

[@OLD_SOUL1900]

Old English accent, "This Record is unique, in that it features the distinctly new syncopated rhythm called, 'The Charleston'!" I love the introduction! At a time when recording was becoming more popular than ever, while still being experimental, America and the world was booming with musical talents- in voice or in instrument. Shellacs like these are historical to everyone for this was the beginning of the advancements in sound. When I hear this tune, I recall all of the wonderful things of the past! Best version yet! I do like Paul Whiteman's version as well. And let us not forget, the father of stride piano, James P. Johnson for the sweet rhythm in the first place! But The Savoy Orpheans do it for me! My thanks for posting a VERY high quality recording of this undying anthem of America!

[@MikeThomas78]

This is certainly the best version of The Charleston in my opinion. A very good transfer too.

[@6dBperOctave]

+Mike Thomas It's definitive, without a doubt. Thanks for the feedback.

[@larryaldrich4351]

Good, snappy music.

[@sequen-cielscientific]

The beautiful CHARLESTON era in music in the 20s! Thank.

[@CPorter]

Never heard that announcement at the beginning by Newton for Charleston before. Why in the world do people cut that out on other uploads? it's an announcement that is cut into the shellac, it's not like its from the radio or something else which would be somewhat understandable.

[@joannahern974]

🎉❤😊😅 My Family's Music Time

[@therealthirst8099]

Stumbled upon your channel in a binge of 20's big band / jazz, easily some of the highest quality transfers i've heard on KZbin. Appreciate your work! I wish more of the uploads from other people could be like yours.

[@6dBperOctave]

Thank you - I'm glad you enjoy it and appreciate it. I must get back to adding more transfers.

[@VTMCompany]

This version has the best aural sound of them all. The B side is a favorite, too...never heard it's vocal chorus before!

[@6dBperOctave]

Thanks. Glad you like it.

[@johnrivers7576]

I love the immediacy of the sound these early recordings produce. Thanks from me too for taking the trouble to transcribe and notate these old records 🎵

[@spencersmith2798]

Outstanding.

[@mrbigarms]

Classic recording! I wish I had a copy in my collection.

[@6dBperOctave]

+Mr Celebrity Thanks, I fell very lucky; copies of this record go for very silly prices (on the rare occasions that they appear). This one has 'come up' better than I feared from its appearance.

[@martincook318]

You can get a copy of this 1925 Recording on C-D:as there is one available called form the Charleston to the Jive and the Recording was first Made on Tuesday July 7th 1925 by His Master's Voice Record Number D-2076

[@gavinmillar7519]

I also like the nod to the English ballad "the moon hath raised her lamp above" at the start of "Waitin' for the moon"; between this and quoting Schubert, surely Debroy Somers has arranged this!

[@mainaccount131]

Super excellent

[@rupertpowell8056]

A better transcription than World Records.

[@richardgraham5051]

This record is unique in that it features a distinctly new syncopated rhythm called "The Charleston"!!!

[@6dBperOctave]

Have you read my text? If not, click on .

[@richardgraham5051]

@@6dBperOctave OF COURSE I read your marvelous text. Everybody, if you haven't read the text give yourself a treat and read on!

[@casparpolitman]

hello mr 6dBperOctave, very nice record, you are very lucky, i don t understand, if you publish on youtube a copyright free record, you own the right???? i am interested

[@raywilliamson4789]

No, if the copyright has run out it has run out! However, if you incorporate it into a new creative work then you own the copyright of that work. Just copies (however skilfully made) do not have a new copyright,

[@alco1252]

Great transfer! The link to the Ramon Cyril document doesn't work.

[@6dBperOctave]

Glad you like the transfer. Thanks for pointing out the dud URL/link. It didn't go to the Ramon Newton biography, just to the magazine's website for subscribing.

[@trijnuskostwinder5374]

Baarens wee jen het begien dat het ploselien elkmomient kan koomen

[@jeanlesage5300]

The Charleston of The California Ramblers (N.Y. April 2 1925) is the best version.

[@6dBperOctave]

chacun à son goût

[@davidglow3]

Wouldn't Ramon have had a Northern accent.The Charleston announcer has natural southern voice. Wouldn't the band leader be making the intro

[@6dBperOctave]

Cyril Newton was born in Malvern, Worcestershire on 9 March 1892. He went to Alberta, Canada in 1909 to join his older brother (his mother and sister followed in 1911). He travelled to up-state New York in 1912, returned to Alberta by 1914. Was back in Lake Placid, New York State in Feb 1917. Went to NYC in Dec 1917. Married before the end of the month. Returned alone to London and the Savoy around March/April 1920 (wife and son followed on). The Savoy Orpheans and Havana Band ceased at the actual close of 1927. In the early 1930s he toured with his Havana Band (reportedly of young players); and ended up doing seasons in Newcastle and Scarborough. He had a season on the Isle of Wight and was at an hotel in Bournemouth when war broke out. He worked at the Royal Ordnance factory in nearby Poole in the war. In the 1950s he was a laboratory assistant at the Christie Hospital & Holt Radium Institute in south Manchester. He lived near by, cohabiting with a woman who had had a bigamous second marriage. He retired; and he died on 16 June 1962. So why would he have a northern accent? On page 879 of Rust, he is named as the announcer on Charleston.

[@davidglow3]

Okay,thanks for the info.l read somewhere he was from Manchester area,which you have proven is incorrect.l also read the announcer was Norman Long(minus his Jewish accent) and in another article the announcer was Debroy Somers.On Rust's radio show in London many moons ago he did say that his massive tomb was never meant as a definitive statement of fact,but rather one that could be modified over the years as new information comes to light.One thing that does seem factual though is that both Newton and Somers were cads..LoL

[@martincook318]

Who ever did this Transfer of this 1925 Recording of the Charleston Recorded on Tuesday July 7th 1925 has done a very good job and the Recording is far better than the Paul Whiteman Version Recorded in May of 1925 for Victor:and that is Partly why His Master's Voice had the Royal Warrent and this Version of the Charleston has been Transferred to C-D and who ever did this Transfer should get a Job as a Engineer

[@6dBperOctave]

I did this transfer from my own copy of the record.

[@martincook318]

Well I must Congratulate you and the Recording has been Transferred to a C-D called form the Charleston to the Jive and I've got a copy of that C-D but there is one thing the Announcement has been cut out:and I Myself like various types of Music Mainly Classical and I'm a Collector and Admirer of the late Yehudi Menuhin and I've been Collecting his Records both on Pre War 78rpm and LP Vinyl for over forty years and if you do like Classical Music I Reckonmend that you buy both his 1932 Recording and the 1966 Recording of the Elgar Violin Concerto the 1932 is with Elgar Conducting either on>[1 Pre war 78rpm Record Number's DB-1751 DB-1756]>[2 on Vinyl ALP-1456 and HLM-7107]and the 1966 on ASD-2259