A Love Letter To 1927

My last poll from a few months ago showed that 1927 was the most popular year. Here are some reasons why.

[@GasPipeJimmy]

That’s the year my mother was born, she’s still with us! 😊

[@Jay123hollis]

That is awesome.

[@lilajagears8317]

God bless her!

[@Yahootie]

That’s amazing! Lucky you! Bless her heart. Those were most definitely “The Good Ol’ Days”! Wish there was a time machine, I’d go there.

[@TeresaEliz]

@Gas Pipe Jimmy - You are truly blessed 🥲. My Mother was born 1921 and she passed away in 2004. She was almost 83.

[@williamharvey8895]

Get all the stories from her while you can

[@oldmaine4314]

Very well done! Also, Clara Bow’s war romance/drama “Wings” released in the summer of 1927. It won the first Academy Award for Best Picture.

[@fnordly]

The flight sequences in that film are still awesome!

[@AntaresSelket]

Clara Bow was amazing in "It", I even have the movie and enjoy watching again and again. I hated the way her career ended. Even as a little girl I listened to old jazz music but you named a few songs I haven't heard of, so I'm going to look them up. Thanks.

[@orbyfan]

Other books about that year are "1927: High Tide of the 1920s" by Gerald Leinwand (2001); "1927 and the Rise of Modern America" by Charles J. Shindo (2010); and "The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal Transatlantic Crossing" (2017). Numerous books have been written about the 1927 Yankees.

[@davidgiancoli2106]

I believe that Bill Bryson also wrote a book on this year and titled it 1927.

[@susansanchez4794]

Hi, I just love and enjoy your channel, you bring the past to life, imagine living in that era, very eventful and interesting, the 1920's are my favorite time in history, thank you for sharing this with us all,you are the cat's meow, hello from Orange County, CA 👋🤗👍

[@kathleenfleming7519]

I wasn't even born during this era, but I you can't help but appreciate this music!

[@BadThingsInHistory]

Really love your episodes. I learn something new every time I watch. I hope you don't get too much hate for not including the horrible parts of the 1920s. My channel did a whole series on how bad the 1920s were. So it's a pleasant surprise to see you focus on the good parts here.

[@sherirobinson6867]

At your suggestion, I watched Metropolis! It was truly ahead of it's time. Fritz Lang was a genius! I'll watch it again and again...

[@GeoffsSousChef]

wowwww THANKS for this!!! sooo much to sink my teeth into! i've been fascinated with the Roaring 20s since i was a child ☺

[@kmgg5005]

Fantastic! thanks for a great vid 😀

[@ianpeddle6818]

I’m with you on the music I have a large collection of records bought by my grandparents on both sides during the 20s and 30s. Although in England they had a wide range of contemporary music of the period from here, the US and Europe

[@JamesBlackmanIII]

I love your channel. Pacing it's right on, the subject matter is amazing, it’s a slick production with excellent editing and spot on narration. Your choice in intro music is prefect as it's a saturated example of era sound over all. Meaning thank you for not being trite and playing the Charleston. lol. I was born in Los Angeles and my love affair for the 1920s showed up quickly as the impact of the 1920s was unavoidable every where you looked and is still very prevalent and very much still alive in Los Angeles to this day as the 1920’s had the most major impact on our city and its culture than any other decade from silent movies 78 record recording and radio and movie palaces.Even the Los Angeles Theatre on Broadway has a 1920’s flapper ghost that waves and does a little 20’s dance up in the third balcony and waves down at you when you are in the theater. 1920’s in Los Angeles and Hollywood has soaked itself way into the ground here as the 1920's roar was so loud after 100 years if you listen you can still hear it to this day. And on Duke Ellington he was an alien from an advanced musical culture sent here to make sure the 1920’s happened “period” lol. So I was so excited to here you single him and that song out! So along with East St, Louis Toodle-o which is brilliant yes yes yes but what kills me also is” Harlem River Quiver” it seems simple but rolls along with a lot of complexity and builds to that big close. And the one that takes me back to the 1920s in a “somewhere in time” way and feeling of being transported back to the 1920s is every time I hear Duke Ellington’s “Red Hot Band” its very bawdy and bouncy and echo-y and the sounds become mechanical like 1920s machinery so much so at one point it sound like 1920’s traffic with car horns. They made music from the 1920’s sounds of the environment around them. Anyway great channel wonderful escapism these are not fun times but all of your stuff takes me away. Thank you. James Blackman Executive Producer Beverly Hills Civic Light Opera / The Saban Theatre 8440 Wilshire Blvd. Designed in 1926 by Fox Studio’s as The Fox Wilshire it is a 2000 seat fully renovated 1920’s Art Deco Movie Theatre. So lucky me I get to go to the 1920s Hollywood when I go to work. Here is a thought maybe one day you could gather an hour of programing directed towards our local history and we could show it on our big movie screen and have a Q and A on stage afterwards and then have big 1920s after party gala in our lobby. I’m sure many people would attend. We could line the street with cars from the era and put out a red carpet and search lights to capture the feeling starting at the street. Ok something think about. Again your stuff is really good.

[@carlfrano6384]

The incomparable Broadway musical "Showboat" music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein and based on the Edna Ferber novel opened in 1927.

[@RobbsHomemadeLife]

I enjoyed your musical insights a lot.

[@BritInvLvr]

I wish all us who love the 1920s could go back and visit.

[@InterestingWorldLove]

I think we may have just did that? Imagination is our most powerful tool.

[@The101damnations]

@@InterestingWorldLove The lack of syphilis, polio and Jim Crow era racism are additional big pros of our most powerful tool, imagination.

[@InterestingWorldLove]

@@The101damnations Yours maybe not mine.

[@kentw.england2305]

I want to go back to Harlem to hear the stride piano players.

[@fnordly]

In 1927, my mother was a 1 year old baby. It is a bit of a shock to me that a century has passed so quickly. I am 65 and still involved in life, so I know what 65 years feels like and I can imagine how long a century feels. 100 years is shorter than it seems! I look around and see how people have forgotten just 80 years ago so now we have to replay the things that made the 30s and 40s so bad. We have to learn to respect and remember the past better or else we will continue to have to live through unnecessary re-runs of history.

[@JamesBlackmanIII]

I totally agree about the songs you identified bravo to you.

[@looplop]

Thank you so much!

[@shaggybreeks]

I read a book around 1995-2000 entitled "1927 -- The Year that Changed Everything*. Says it all. Funny how "7" years seem to be so exciting. At least, 1917, 1927, 1947, 1967... And it turns out that EVERY DECADE in the 20th century had a "7" year in it. Every single one. Mind boggling.

[@UnwrittenSpade]

This channel is amazing

[@Playsinvain]

Louis Armstrong ! A guy whose greatness stretched from before the beginning of radio to the moon landing….

[@kentw.england2305]

Many that hated "jazz" liked the "Fox Trot" which is the same thing. Note the disc labels.

[@nobodytooimportant3621]

It's also the year a Louisiana waitress and a prince were turned into frogs, befriended a firefly and a trumpet playing alligator and defeated a voodoo conman. And all during Mardi Gras

[@timburr4453]

CBS came on the air in 1927. That's a big one Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, the Jazz Singer, The legendary (German) film Metropolis is released. Landmark moment in cinema, Stalin takes control in Russia. A huge moment in international politics and relations.

[@radicalross7700]

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy officially became a team in 1927.

[@T._Matthew_Phillips]

1928 Yankees!!

[@waveydaveydoo]

What makes you so enamored with the 1920’s?

[@jackmorrison7379]

Thank you for educating a subscriber who has not been a big fan of jazz either the historical performance or more modern performers. But as you say, music is your interest and it is a great passion to have. The 1930's/40's big band sound is more my historical interest. Now I'm going to offend her fan club, but Ms. Bow has always seemed a one note performer to me, and the silent era has so many more dynamic actresses some of whom went on to sound ("talkie")careers. Thank you for pointing out sound in pictures had many efforts and partial use in the 1920's. For a whole lot of reasons (not just modern sensibilities either) I find the whole Jazz Singer movie unwatchable, between the ethnic "schmaltz" and the blackface, I'll pass.

[@prudencepineapple9448]

Charles Lindbergh is a polarizing figure these days. He was extremely antisemitic and was a fan of the NAZI's meeting Hitler from memory. But, I'm often wrong.

[@Ethergirl]

You are not wrong in this case. Lindbergh made some awful public comments about race, encouraged American isolationism before WWII and seemed not only supportive of but enthralled by the Nazi regime in the 1930s. He even hung around with Goering and other Nazi officials and was proud to receive some sort of medal from them! He and his wife considered moving to Germany in 1938. Let's face it, he may have achieved something impressive in his trans Atlantic flight but if he hadn't done it someone else would have eventually. He was truly an awful person and his popularity in the US with much of the public not only in spite of his views, but with some of them because of his views, is a shameful blot on our history. I liked this video overall like most of them on this channel, but I don't think it's right to cover Lindbergh in any historical piece without mentioning his Nazi involvement. @The1920sChannel I enjoy what you do but please consider this. Here's a link from an article about a PBS program about Lindbergh : www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/lindbergh-fallen-hero/ from the article: "Building on his belief that "racial strength is vital," Lindbergh published an article in Reader's Digest stating, "That our civilization depends on a Western wall of race and arms which can hold back... the infiltration of inferior blood."

[@dominic.h.3363]

I like everything about this time period except the music. I just don't like the sound of brass instruments at all, regardless of the genre. Even in modern jazz I specifically look for compositions that only have string (and percussion, depending on how uptight one is about the classification of a piano).

[@arthurdalton517]

You might not know that there was just 5 theaters that were capable of handling talkies? That is wy taking movies didn't make a huge amount of money in the 20s

[@jgrab1]

I love Duke Ellington too but these are not "songs." Nobody was singing and there are no lyrics. They are tunes or compositions. Now Creole Love Call is arguably a song, because it had singing even though they weren't actual words.

[@TheMan40262]

did not include the bath elementary school massacre...as expected