the1920sand30s | Paul Whiteman - I Miss My Swiss [My Swiss Miss Misses Me] (1925) @the1920sand30s | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Performed by: Paul Whiteman
Full Song: I Miss My Swiss (My Swiss Miss Misses Me)
Recorded in: New York, NY - August 14th 1925
Paul Whiteman, (born March 28, 1890, Denver, Colorado, U.S.— died December 29, 1967, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American bandleader, called the “King of Jazz” for popularizing a musical style that helped to introduce jazz to mainstream audiences during the 1920s and 1930s.
Whiteman, who was originally a violinist, conducted a 40-piece U.S. Navy band in 1917–18 and then developed a hotel orchestra in California, which he took to New York City in 1920. He hired the best white jazz players, but he allowed little room for improvisation in his arrangements and greatly simplified jazz rhythms. He was successful as a co-composer of popular songs during the 1920s and led his orchestra in Broadway musicals.
Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and conducted its premiere at Aeolian Hall, New York City, in 1924, with the composer as piano soloist. Whiteman also introduced the Grand Canyon Suite (1931) by Ferde Grofé, who had arranged the Rhapsody. The Rhapsody became Whiteman’s theme, and he established the Whiteman Awards for compositions in a “symphonic jazz” style. The 1930 film King of Jazz was the first of four in which his orchestra appeared. Whiteman was the host of several national radio programs during the 1930s, wrote three books (Jazz, with Mary Margaret McBride, 1926; How To Be a Bandleader, with Leslie Lieber, 1941; Records for the Millions, 1948), and recorded extensively. His popularity waned in the late 1940s, but he came back as a television-series host in the 1950s and occasionally led bands up to the time of his death.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
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Performed by: Paul Whiteman
Full Song: I Miss My Swiss (My Swiss Miss Misses Me)
Recorded in: New York, NY - August 14th 1925
Paul Whiteman, (born March 28, 1890, Denver, Colorado, U.S.— died December 29, 1967, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American bandleader, called the “King of Jazz” for popularizing a musical style that helped to introduce jazz to mainstream audiences during the 1920s and 1930s.
Whiteman, who was originally a violinist, conducted a 40-piece U.S. Navy band in 1917–18 and then developed a hotel orchestra in California, which he took to New York City in 1920. He hired the best white jazz players, but he allowed little room for improvisation in his arrangements and greatly simplified jazz rhythms. He was successful as a co-composer of popular songs during the 1920s and led his orchestra in Broadway musicals.
Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and conducted its premiere at Aeolian Hall, New York City, in 1924, with the composer as piano soloist. Whiteman also introduced the Grand Canyon Suite (1931) by Ferde Grofé, who had arranged the Rhapsody. The Rhapsody became Whiteman’s theme, and he established the Whiteman Awards for compositions in a “symphonic jazz” style. The 1930 film King of Jazz was the first of four in which his orchestra appeared. Whiteman was the host of several national radio programs during the 1930s, wrote three books (Jazz, with Mary Margaret McBride, 1926; How To Be a Bandleader, with Leslie Lieber, 1941; Records for the Millions, 1948), and recorded extensively. His popularity waned in the late 1940s, but he came back as a television-series host in the 1950s and occasionally led bands up to the time of his death.
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.
![Paul Whiteman - I Miss My Swiss [My Swiss Miss Misses Me] (1925)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b65wbm2nauE/hqdefault.jpg "Paul Whiteman - I Miss My Swiss [My Swiss Miss Misses Me] (1925)
Performed by: Paul Whiteman
Full Song: I Miss My Swiss (My Swiss Miss Misses Me)
Recorded in: New York, NY - August 14th 1925
Paul Whiteman, (born March 28, 1890, Denver, Colorado, U.S.— died December 29, 1967, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American bandleader, called the “King of Jazz” for popularizing a musical style that helped to introduce jazz to mainstream audiences during the 1920s and 1930s.
Whiteman, who was originally a violinist, conducted a 40-piece U.S. Navy band in 1917–18 and then developed a hotel orchestra in California, which he took to New York City in 1920. He hired the best white jazz players, but he allowed little room for improvisation in his arrangements and greatly simplified jazz rhythms. He was successful as a co-composer of popular songs during the 1920s and led his orchestra in Broadway musicals.
Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and conducted its premiere at Aeolian Hall, New York City, in 1924, with the composer as piano soloist. Whiteman also introduced the Grand Canyon Suite (1931) by Ferde Grofé, who had arranged the Rhapsody. The Rhapsody became Whiteman’s theme, and he established the Whiteman Awards for compositions in a “symphonic jazz” style. The 1930 film King of Jazz was the first of four in which his orchestra appeared. Whiteman was the host of several national radio programs during the 1930s, wrote three books (Jazz, with Mary Margaret McBride, 1926; How To Be a Bandleader, with Leslie Lieber, 1941; Records for the Millions, 1948), and recorded extensively. His popularity waned in the late 1940s, but he came back as a television-series host in the 1950s and occasionally led bands up to the time of his death.
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.")
![Walter Kollo - Alle Englein lachen [All the angels laugh] (1915)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fj2XIKzoQcs/hqdefault.jpg "Walter Kollo - Alle Englein lachen [All the angels laugh] (1915)
Performed by: Walter Kollo
Full Song Title: Alle Englein lachen
Recorded in: October 23, 1915 Berliner Theater, Berlin - Imperial Germany
Walter Kollo ( born 28 January 1878 – died 30 September 1940) was a German composer of operettas, Possen mit Gesang, and Singspiele as well as popular songs. He was also a conductor and a music publisher.
Kollo was born in Neidenburg, East Prussia. His best known work, the operetta Wie einst im Mai (1913), was the basis of a 1917 Sigmund Romberg operetta in America entitled Maytime.
A merchants son, he was originally supposed to take his fathers trade, but was able to devote himself to the study of music in the Königsberg Sondershausen music conservatory with his mothers help. He became a theater conductor for a brief time in Königsberg before going to Berlin in 1899. In Berlin, he turned towards popular / light music, and from 1908, wrote music for the popular musical theater. It was in 1910 with Willy Bredschneider that he composed his first great success, Große Rosinen, produced on New Years Eve 1911. Somewhat prolifically, he continued composing musical comedies, farces and operettas, notably, with among other pieces, Wie einst im Mai (1913; with the songs Es war in Schöneberg im Monat Mai and Die Männer sind alle Verbrecher), Der Juxbaron (1916), Drei alte Schachteln (1917) and Die Frau ohne Kuß (1924).
Kollo also emerged as a composer of revues and sound films in 1915, was one of the founders of the performers rights organization GEMA, and had his own music publishing company. Later he made successful concert tours as a conductor of his own works.
With Jean Gilbert and Paul Lincke, Kollo was a founder of the Berliner Operette.
His son Willi Kollo was also a composer of light music and his grandson is the celebrated Wagnerian tenor René Kollo.
Walter Kollo died in Berlin.
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.")
