the1920sand30s | Paul Dresser - My Gal Sal (1928) @the1920sand30s | Uploaded October 2018 | Updated October 2024, 4 minutes ago.
Performed by: Unknown
Composer: Paul Dresser
Full Song Title:My Gal Sal
Recorded in: 1928
Paul Dresser (born Johann Paul Dreiser, Jr.; April 22, 1857 – January 30, 1906) was an American singer, songwriter, and comedic actor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition to songwriting Dresser performed in traveling minstrel and medicine-wagon shows and as a vaudeville entertainer. Dresser sold his songs through sheet music publishers, especially the firms in New York City's Tin Pan Alley, and became a partner in the music publishing business.
Dresser composed and published more than 150 songs. His biggest hit, "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" (1897), became the second best-selling song, in terms of sheet music, during the nineteenth century. Following the success of "Wabash", many newspapers compared Dresser to popular music composer Stephen Foster. "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" became the official state song of Indiana in 1913. The Paul Dresser Birthplace in Terre Haute is designated as a state shrine and memorial. Dresser was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
Paul Dresser’s “My Gal Sal” was written as a fond reflection on one of the great loves in that songwriter’s life, his multiple-year affair with an Evansville madam called Sal Davis, real name, as research has recently shown: Annie Swanner. We know about her mainly through scattered writings left by Dresser’s now-more-famous younger brother, Theodore Dreiser. She helped keep the Dreiser family alive at one point in the 1870s, when they were at their poorest. Dresser is said to have broken her heart by running off with one of her “girls,” but a quarter-century later, he hadn’t forgotten her, and because of him the whole world knows her name. Or at least her nickname.
Probably the greatest version of this song, musically speaking, in that here the song’s jazz possibilities are explored most fully. Partly that has to do with the sheer excellence of the playing. But I can also say, as a person with a claim to having listened to the most versions of “My Gal Sal” the most times of anyone in America, that this is the one I hum and hear.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
______________________
Please Note: I do not claim copyright or ownership of the song played in this video. All copyrighted content remains property of their respective owners.
Performed by: Unknown
Composer: Paul Dresser
Full Song Title:My Gal Sal
Recorded in: 1928
Paul Dresser (born Johann Paul Dreiser, Jr.; April 22, 1857 – January 30, 1906) was an American singer, songwriter, and comedic actor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition to songwriting Dresser performed in traveling minstrel and medicine-wagon shows and as a vaudeville entertainer. Dresser sold his songs through sheet music publishers, especially the firms in New York City's Tin Pan Alley, and became a partner in the music publishing business.
Dresser composed and published more than 150 songs. His biggest hit, "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" (1897), became the second best-selling song, in terms of sheet music, during the nineteenth century. Following the success of "Wabash", many newspapers compared Dresser to popular music composer Stephen Foster. "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" became the official state song of Indiana in 1913. The Paul Dresser Birthplace in Terre Haute is designated as a state shrine and memorial. Dresser was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
Paul Dresser’s “My Gal Sal” was written as a fond reflection on one of the great loves in that songwriter’s life, his multiple-year affair with an Evansville madam called Sal Davis, real name, as research has recently shown: Annie Swanner. We know about her mainly through scattered writings left by Dresser’s now-more-famous younger brother, Theodore Dreiser. She helped keep the Dreiser family alive at one point in the 1870s, when they were at their poorest. Dresser is said to have broken her heart by running off with one of her “girls,” but a quarter-century later, he hadn’t forgotten her, and because of him the whole world knows her name. Or at least her nickname.
Probably the greatest version of this song, musically speaking, in that here the song’s jazz possibilities are explored most fully. Partly that has to do with the sheer excellence of the playing. But I can also say, as a person with a claim to having listened to the most versions of “My Gal Sal” the most times of anyone in America, that this is the one I hum and hear.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
______________________
Please Note: I do not claim copyright or ownership of the song played in this video. All copyrighted content remains property of their respective owners.
![Max Mensing - Blutrote Rosen [Blood Red Roses] (1929)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/De6B4QKM_wI/hqdefault.jpg "Max Mensing - Blutrote Rosen [Blood Red Roses] (1929)
Performed by: Saxophon-Orchester Dobbri
Full Song Title: Blutrote Rosen
Recorded in: September 1929, Berlin, Germany
Blutrote Rosen (eng: Blood red roses) was composed by Hermann Hünemeyer & Alfred Krönkemeyer in 1928/1929. Sadly, this song is often mistaken to be Eva Hitlers favorite song which is actually Glutrote Rosen (Fiery red roses) by Rudi Schuricke from 1942. I dont know why anyone would even care about what her favorite music was, but I thought its about time to clear up the misinformation that has been circulating on social media and internet forums.
Otto Dobrindt (born August 24, 1886 in Henkendorf / West Prussia (today Hanki) — died September 13, 1963 in Berlin) was a popular German orchestra director and film composer of the 1920s and 30s.
Dobrindt began as a production manager at the record company Carl Lindström AG, of which he became the chief production manager in the same year.
From 1925 he recorded his own productions in different styles under various pseudonyms (including the Dobbri Saxophone Orchestra, Odeon Tanz-Orchester, Wiener Bohème-Orchester, Dobbri, Robert Renard, Eddie Saxon, Frank Sandlers, Eric Harden, Götz Höhne, Horst Platen), from swing to light classical music. The “Otto Dobrindt Orchestra” accompanied many Ufa stars on recordings, for example Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Hans Albers.
Dobrindt conducted the recording of a potpourri of the Merry Widow with Zarah Leander. In 1935 Dobrindt took over the management of the entertainment orchestra at the Deutschlandsender. In the same year he wrote the music for the film Alles hört auf mein Kommando (Everything listens to my command). He conducted numerous musical request programmes with the party badge of the NSDAP on his lapel.
From 1945 Dobrindt directed the Berliner Rundfunk entertainment orchestra in the citys eastern sector. Dobrindt also conducted other orchestras in the GDR. He recorded cross-sections of operettas with the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the DEFA version of the bat with the DEFA Symphony Orchestra in 1955.
Max Christian Erich Mensing (born August 11, 1886 in Hamburg — died May 3, 1945 in Berlin-Charlottenburg) was a popular German tenor and actor of the 1920s.
Mensing was the son of the surgeon Dr. med. Johannes Hartwig Christian Mensing and his wife Helene, born Noodt. During the First World War, the Berlin concert singer Max Mensing gained a lot of recognition on the Eastern Front, namely in Bjalystok, for his performance of the most beautiful German songs.
He reached the peak of his career in Berlin of the Weimar Republic as a singer of daily hits. During this time he was involved in numerous recordings by well-known Berliner dance orchestras. Mensings commercial success dwindled in the mid-1930s, but he continued working as a singer until the end of the decade. In the film Es leuchten die Sterne (1938) Mensing lent his voice to an actor, in Der Gouverneur (1939) he played a supporting role.
Max Mensing committed suicide by poison in his house in Berlin-Charlottenburg during the Battle of Berlin in the last days of World War II. He was buried in the war cemetery of Luisenfriedhof I (Block A, Row 3, Grave 28).
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
Please Note: I do not claim copyright or ownership of the song played in this video. All copyrighted content remains property of their respective owners.")
![Jean Sablon - Ces Petites Choses [These Little Things] (1936)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DzATKB_OypY/hqdefault.jpg "Jean Sablon - Ces Petites Choses [These Little Things] (1936)
Performed by: Jean Sablon
Full Song Title: Ces Petites Choses
Recorded in: 1936
Flip side of: https://youtu.be/YpynbMU8boE
Jean Sablon (Nogent-sur-Marne, 25 March 1906 - Cannes, 24 February 1994) was a popular French singer and actor of the 1930s.
The son of a composer, with brothers and sisters who had successful careers of their own in musical entertainment, Jean Sablon studied piano at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris. He left before graduating to enroll at the Paris Conservatoire in order to concentrate on a vocal career. He started in the cabarets of Paris at the age of 17, and was subsequently accompanied on his first album by the pianist/composer Mireille, whose song Couchés dans le foin became a great success. Later, he partnered the wildly popular Mistinguett at the Casino de Paris and boosted his career considerably. He was the first cabaret singer to use a microphone in his stage act. In the 1920s he spent time in Brazil where his recordings remain extremely popular today.
In 1937, he won the Grand Prix du Disque for the song Vous qui passez sans me voir, written for him by Charles Trenet and Johnny Hess. That same year, he went to the United States, where he sang on live radio broadcasts for CBS and made several records in the English language. On Broadway, he worked with luminaries such as Cole Porter and George Gershwin. He returned to Paris but, with the German occupation of France in World War II, he went back to America for the duration.
March 30, 1950, Jean Sablon records Cest si bon in London. June 26, 1950, Louis Armstrong recorded the American version of the song in New York City with Sy Oliver and his Orchestra and English lyrics of Jerry Seelen. The song became a worldwide hit.
Jean Sablon became one of the most widely acclaimed male French singers, considered second only in overall lifetime popularity to Maurice Chevalier. His records sold in the millions around the world and he is frequently referred to as the French equivalent of Americas Bing Crosby. During his career, he recorded with some of the worlds top musicians, including Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. Sablon is credited with arranging Reinhardts debut in a fashionable cabaret in 1933. He is also recognized for his talents as a lyricist and a composer. Sablon appeared in a number of motion pictures and television films performing as a vocalist or pianist, his last being in 1984 when he sang April in Paris in Mistrals Daughter, the popular American TV miniseries filmed in France.
Jean Sablon died in Cannes in 1994 and was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
Please Note: I do not claim copyright or ownership of the song played in this video. All copyrighted content remains property of their respective owners")
![Max Mensing - Das Lied Der Liebe Hat Eine Süße Melodie [The song of love has a sweet melody] (1929)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EhmfGF6qU-M/hqdefault.jpg "Max Mensing - Das Lied Der Liebe Hat Eine Süße Melodie [The song of love has a sweet melody] (1929)
Performed by: Saxophon-Orchester Dobbri
Full Song Title: Das Lied Der Liebe Hat Eine Süße Melodie
Recorded in: September 1929, Berlin, Germany
Flip side of: https://youtu.be/De6B4QKM_wI
Otto Dobrindt (born August 24, 1886 in Henkendorf / West Prussia (today Hanki) — died September 13, 1963 in Berlin) was a popular German orchestra director and film composer of the 1920s and 30s.
Dobrindt began as a production manager at the record company Carl Lindström AG, of which he became the chief production manager in the same year.
From 1925 he recorded his own productions in different styles under various pseudonyms (including the Dobbri Saxophone Orchestra, Odeon Tanz-Orchester, Wiener Bohème-Orchester, Dobbri, Robert Renard, Eddie Saxon, Frank Sandlers, Eric Harden, Götz Höhne, Horst Platen), from swing to light classical music. The “Otto Dobrindt Orchestra” accompanied many Ufa stars on recordings, for example Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Hans Albers.
Dobrindt conducted the recording of a potpourri of the Merry Widow with Zarah Leander. In 1935 Dobrindt took over the management of the entertainment orchestra at the Deutschlandsender. In the same year he wrote the music for the film Alles hört auf mein Kommando (Everything listens to my command). He conducted numerous musical request programmes with the party badge of the NSDAP on his lapel.
From 1945 Dobrindt directed the Berliner Rundfunk entertainment orchestra in the citys eastern sector. Dobrindt also conducted other orchestras in the GDR. He recorded cross-sections of operettas with the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the DEFA version of the bat with the DEFA Symphony Orchestra in 1955.
Max Christian Erich Mensing (born August 11, 1886 in Hamburg — died May 3, 1945 in Berlin-Charlottenburg) was a popular German tenor and actor of the 1920s.
Mensing was the son of the surgeon Dr. med. Johannes Hartwig Christian Mensing and his wife Helene, born Noodt. During the First World War, the Berlin concert singer Max Mensing gained a lot of recognition on the Eastern Front, namely in Bjalystok, for his performance of the most beautiful German songs.
He reached the peak of his career in Berlin of the Weimar Republic as a singer of daily hits. During this time he was involved in numerous recordings by well-known Berliner dance orchestras. Mensings commercial success dwindled in the mid-1930s, but he continued working as a singer until the end of the decade. In the film Es leuchten die Sterne (1938) Mensing lent his voice to an actor, in Der Gouverneur (1939) he played a supporting role.
Max Mensing committed suicide by poison in his house in Berlin-Charlottenburg during the Battle of Berlin in the last days of World War II. He was buried in the war cemetery of Luisenfriedhof I (Block A, Row 3, Grave 28).
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
Please Note: I do not claim copyright or ownership of the song played in this video. All copyrighted content remains property of their respective owners.")
