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It is based on "Slobodarka", a 1908 song written by Josip Smodlaka. [36] The Red Army is Strongest: Samuel Pokrass and Pavel Gorinshtejn: 1920 Soviet Union: The Partisan's Song: Yuri Cherniavsky and Peter Parfenov: 1915-1922 Soviet Union: A popular Red Army song from the Russian Civil War and World War I. [37] Tachanka (song) Mikhail Ruderman ...
The 1920s and 30s also saw a marked rise in the number of songs which protested against racial discrimination, such as Fats Waller's "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" in 1929, and the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" by Lewis Allan and performed and recorded by Billie Holiday, which contains the lyrics "Southern trees bear strange ...
The song was recorded by a number of other artists, including Billy Murray on November 19, 1919, for Victor (No. 18634A). [3] Five years later in 1924, Murray would record a similar-themed tune called " Charley, My Boy ", which included an instrumental referback to this one.
"The Laughing Policeman" is a music hall song recorded by British artist Charles Penrose, initially published under the pseudonym Charles Jolly in 1922.It is an adaptation of "The Laughing Song" first recorded in 1890 by American singer George W. Johnson with the same tune and form, but the subject was changed from a "dandy darky" to a policeman.
The song was recorded by Leo Reisman and His Orchestra, with vocals by Lou Levin in November 1929 [citation needed] and was featured in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows. [3] The song concluded the picture, in what film historian Edwin Bradley described as a "pull-out-all-the-stops Technicolor finale, against a Great War Armistice show-within-a-show backdrop".
R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders are an American retro string band playing songs from, and in the style of, the 1920s: old-time music, ragtime, "evergreen" jazz standards, western swing, country blues, Hawaiian, hokum, vaudeville and medicine show tunes. Underground cartoonist Robert Crumb was the band's frontman and album cover artist.
It is the 63rd most covered song from 1925. [2] "Lulu" in the song is a 1920s flapper. The song lyrics include a reference to the traditional nursery rhyme and singing game for parties, "London Bridge Is Falling Down". The sheet music is credited to Billy Rose, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson.
Pages in category "1920s songs" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.