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Wasting My Love On You
Words by Edgar Leslie, music by Harry Warren
Lee Morse and her Blue Grass Boys
Recorded October 31, 1930
Columbia 2333-D
Lee Morse (1897-1954) was a female, vocal stylist of the 1920s and 1930s with a throaty, jazz-phrased, rather uninhibited style. Sometimes easy swinging style along Gene Austin lines with voice raised in slight yodel. Extensive recording, often used outstanding musicians, including Benny Goodman, Manny Klein, Tommy Dorsey, Adrian Rollini, Eddie Lang, Rube Bloom. Usually billed as Lee Morse and Her Blue Grass Boys. Played vaudeville many years.
Eddie Lang's guitar accompaniment is prominent on this recording.
Wasting My Love On You
Words by Edgar Leslie, music by Harry Warren
Lee Morse and her Blue Grass Boys
Recorded October 31, 1930
Columbia 2333-D
Lee Morse (1897-1954) was a female, vocal stylist of the 1920s and 1930s with a throaty, jazz-phrased, rather uninhibited style. Sometimes easy swinging style along Gene Austin lines with voice raised in slight yodel. Extensive recording, often used outstanding musicians, including Benny Goodman, Manny Klein, Tommy Dorsey, Adrian Rollini, Eddie Lang, Rube Bloom. Usually billed as Lee Morse and Her Blue Grass Boys. Played vaudeville many years.
Eddie Lang's guitar accompaniment is prominent on this recording.







![Rudy Wiedoeft - La Cinquantaine (1925)
La Cinquantaine (The Golden Wedding)
Music by Jean Gabriel-Marie
Rudy Wiedoeft, Saxophone Solo
Accompanied by Frank Banta, piano
Recorded August 31, 1925
Victor 19771
Rudy Wiedoeft (1893 - 1940) was the first virtuoso on saxophone, widely known during the 1920s. He had a strong legitimate alto sax tone and considerable technique stressing rapid-tongue work. He served in the military during World War I and was involved with the military band. Led various-sized bands in New York during the early 1920s. Recorded with own groups, as soloist or as accompanist to singers. Helped modernize design of c-melody and alto sax. Active in teaching. Composed solos for sax; most-famous Saxophobia, widely used by saxophonists. Other compositions included Sax-O-Phun, Saxerella Valse Erica. Became an inventor in Los Angeles in 1937.
Jean Gabriel-Marie (1852 - 1928) was a French Romantic composer. He composed La Cinquantaine in 1887 and it became his best known work. He also composed many dance pieces, notably the waltz Sous les firnes (Under the Ash Trees, 1884) and the highly original polka Frais minois (Fresh Face). Sérénade Badine achieved some popularity by its numerous arrangements, including those for saxophone and piano, and cello and piano, as did other chamber works and light works for orchestra.[source: Wikipedia] Rudy Wiedoeft - La Cinquantaine (1925)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bN-4yA-GMGE/mqdefault.jpg)


