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Advertisements for March 1923 records from Victor and Columbia in the New York Times in February 1923. Victor's advertisement from February 15,1923 shows Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin recording a version of the Russian folk song "Song of the Volga Boatman" (there is a version of that song used in Punch-Out as Soda Popinski's music). A version of the hit song "Carolina in the Morning" and Paul Whiteman Orchestra's version of "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" is shown. (That would be one of the most popular songs of 1923).
You can hear Whiteman Orchestra's version of Parade here:
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Columbia's February 20, 1923 advertisement shows that it has a few blues records, some classical music and opera, some show tunes, and some pop songs sung by Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor. This is the St. Louis Blues version by Ted Lewis's band advertised by Columbia (which was a song written by W.C. Handy)
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And that concludes today's look at what two of the leading bandleaders of the 1920s were doing late 1922/early 1923.
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Song lyrics to When My Baby Smiles At Me, by Andrew B. Sterling, Ted Lewis, Bill Munro
When My Baby Smiles At Me, words by Andrew B. Sterling and Ted Lewis music by Bill Munro. Performed by Ted Lewis in Abbott and Costello’s Hold That Ghost.
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