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High Society Blues is a 1930 American pre-Code film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell.The movie was written by Howard J. Green from the story by Dana Burnett, and directed by David Butler.
Good News, starring Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards and Penny Singleton and featuring Abe Lyman & his Band; Heads Up, starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Helen Kane. Directed by Victor Schertzinger. High Society Blues, starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell and Louise Fazenda; Hit the Deck, starring Jack Oakie, Polly Walker and June Clyde
High Society Blues, directed by David Butler, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell; Hold Everything (lost), directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Joe E. Brown; Holiday, directed by Edward H. Griffith, starring Ann Harding and Mary Astor
High Flyers; High, Wide, and Handsome; Hollywood Hotel; I'll Take Romance; In Old Chicago; Life Begins in College; The Life of the Party; Love and Hisses; Make a Wish; Manhattan Merry-Go-Round; Maytime; Music for Madame; New Faces of 1937; Nobody's Baby; On Again-Off Again; On the Avenue; One Hundred Men and a Girl; Our Gang Follies of 1938 ...
Rhythm and blues (R&B) is a style that arose in the 1930s and 1940s, a rhythmic and uptempo form of blues with more complex instrumentation. Author Amiri Baraka described early R&B as "huge rhythm units smashing away behind screaming blues singers (who) had to shout to be heard above the clanging and strumming of the various electrified ...
A rent party (sometimes called a house party) is a social occasion where tenants hire a musician or band to play and pass the hat to raise money to pay their rent, originating in Harlem during the 1920s. These parties were a means for Black tenants to eat, dance, and get away from everyday hardship and discrimination.
Reginald Hazeltine Bassett (September 3, 1878 – April 24, 1951) was an American composer and orchestrator who led a prolific career in film. He contributed music to over one hundred major movies from the 1920s to the 1940s.
The Harlem Hamfats form, going on to pioneer the precursor to the modern blues band. [10] The National School Vocal Association is founded. [82] Composer Colin McPhee, living in Bali, composes Tabuh-Tabuhan, an early work to feature a strong Balinese influence. [344] The Pat Roche Harp and Shamrock Orchestra performs at the Century of Progress ...