R. Crumb "Sweet Shellac - Part 2; Weimar Germany"

[@robertyoung1777]

My dad used to listen to a radio show called “The Czech Music Hour KCRG” on am radio when we were kids. The music was from this time period. Similar oom-pa vide but different. Love the music and Robert’s descriptions contexts.

[@stephenhargrave7922]

Classical german martial marching jazz

[@chezceleste]

Thanks Robert Crumb and Mshrms

[@7karlheinz]

I used to play this music on a college radio station with a roster of jazz shows. Those other jazz DJs thought I was weird for doing so.

[@NessieAndrew]

How I love this video

[@albrighttopover]

Hello, my father, age 1926 was a so called 'Swinger', a big Duke Alington fellow with a few collection of shellac Recordings and in 1944 he was a Radioman by the Wehrmacht Infanterie, endet in a huge' Kral' in Ostholstein near Lübeck with the whole bunch off military cars and troops under englisch Catch. After a while in Prison he escape with no Papers run per train jumping on like a Hobo back to his hometown berlin, the reason for escape was they would lynch the man who played modern jazz in her prisonlive. Mother told me after Dads Gone what happend there, he himself was speechless. He has all musik instrument, banjo, mandoline, but never play again, but his jazz he heard it all the time, our House was full of jazz music. At this point i will prefer a film with nicola cage and Penelope Cruz' Correllis Mandoline', it a Drama but the film show's witch kind of musik in these times popular and legal where and what was forbitten. My father was a kind and friendly man, need to find more, but he is gone 1991 and never say any words about WW 2. In his youngest time he must heard the last jewish Weddingday-musik in middle of Berlin were he grow up and was fazinatet, Polka also. Then came the Nazis and all had demolized- a whole wonderfull musik culture was gone, but my father took a peace of it in his heart all these dark times, this makes my wonder everytime I think off him, Dear Dad and his musik, so Great!!!

[@billkarmetsky4003]

The "keep it gansta" cover is hilarious. The music is terrific. Robert Crumb? He is an ad hoc early 20th century music historian. And these records deserve safekeeping. The are marvelous ditties of fun and frolic of days gone by.

[@joedibert645]

Can I get that on a Tee Shirt??

[@revertinthemaking]

#2 of Christmas series Sweet Shellac

[@jeffmoore9487]

This is amazing music. The cultural influence between Europe and the US was profound in both directions. The young of stodgy old Europe and racist America each were transformed together by the hodge podge of influences that came to be jazz and swing. Europe was quicker to celebrate black influence on culture. They provided musical art form that became the international sound track for WW2.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

Racist America? During the 1930s, Germany adopted racism as its fundamental ideology, leading to the destruction of the Jewish 'race.' Nothing like it has ever existed in the history of human civilization. When you throw the word 'racist' around, please keep it in some kind of rational context.

[@jeffmoore9487]

JonFrumTheFirst: Sorry if it seems new for you. I'm thinking about the fact that police in my country can shoot blacks (even children) almost entirely without prosecution, and the fact that banks regularly target blacks more than whites for predatory loans. Racism in the fundamental institutions of the US is normal. This has been true for hundreds of years. At the same time, the US is leading the way in many kinds of minority policies. You should come and visit, you'll see pretty quickly what I'm saying. The US is a great place in many ways, especially in the fight for human rights. It's mostly just our leaders and some institutions that suck.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

What you're doing is called false equivalence. It has a long history with people of your ilk.

[@jeffmoore9487]

What "false' equivalence? What "ilk"? Racism isn't there because I'm saying its there. It's not an ilk, it's a fact that you maybe do not want to see.

[@erniebuchinski3614]

@@jeffmoore9487 Prejudice is also not absent in some places because some don't wish to acknowledge it, assumedly because such a thing might intefere with their pre-determined world view. I grew up in the US, but haved lived in various countries in Europe for more than 25 years, south, central and north. Your comparisons have no objective historical basis. If you came to just about any country in Europe today and saw for yourself how much black culture (or any minority culture) is "celebrated" by most Europeans, you'd be in for a rude awakening, to say the least. I hardly see the relative tolerance of, for example, the Weimar Republic, or Paris in the same time period, as representive of European history overall (they both seem more like happy exceptions in the big picture, happy exceptions that we could obviously use many more of) and certainly also not representative of the general socio-political situation in Europe today. I don't believe that many serious-minded people could really believe that the relative tolerance of that period has been anything close to the norm here in Europe, or anywhere else, throughout history. Someone who thinks that in general terms prejudice is or has been historically worse in the US than in Europe is either woefully ignorant of world history or has a political agenda to promote, possibly both.

[@groovediggerdan9745]

Great stuff, thanks for posting. Any idea how many of these "Sweet Shellac" programs Crumb did?

[@Mshrms]

As far as I know, I have them all on my channel. Check out John Heneghan's old time radio hour if you are looking for more Crumb.

[@stepno]

Fine program and Crumb commentary ... When was this broadcast? And is there any explanation for the accompanying photo? I would actually like to hear what he was playing, although apparently not the right era for this broadcast. .

[@Mshrms]

I don't know when this was broadcast. The picture was a meme somewhat popular around '13, it's the rapper 50 cent and I dn't think he ever actually played the accordeon, but if he did I too would like to hear it.

[@soulvaccination8679]

How about some Spike Jones and the City Slickers.

[@tumbleweedjones]

Jazzermany.

[@EverybodyBurts]

Half of the views are mine.

[@Mshrms]

Thank you for your service.