SUPERBATONE CDs shine the coherent light on a wide variety of historic music and entertainment ranging in time from the very dawn of recording to the end of the 78 era (1888 - 1960).
SUPERBATONE'S MISSION is to startle listeners with unknown, great material that has not been noticed until now, or maybe has never been presented in excellent sound. Many unjustly neglected artists and eras are brought back to life on Superbatone, and more are being discovered all the time.
SUPERBATONE transfers are made with great care and skill with the one goal of clarity and brilliance. Whether the source records are early acoustic or electric, these CDs can be played as loudly as you please with NO harmonic distortion and complete enjoyment. Our slogan (stolen from RCA Victor, who hasn't used it since 1929):
THERE CAN BE NO COMPROMISE WITH PURITY OF TONE!
TO ORDER:
All CDs are $15.00 each, except as noted.
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Overseas: $6.00 for the first CD; $2.00 each additional.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 732: The original Superbatone LP, "JANE GREEN - WILD ROMANTIC BLUES
- Listen to Jane Green Sing
- 733: THE COMPLETE EARLY SOPHIE TUCKER (1910 - 1937)
- Sophie Tucker on YouTube!
- 734: THE REAL SOUND OF RAGTIME (1889 -1924)
- 735: JANE GREEN (almost) COMPLETE (1920 - 1929)
- Listen to Jane Green Sing
- 736: WILLARD ROBISON (1926-30)
- 738: THE VICTOR MINSTRELS (1905-1915)
- 739: MIKE BERNARD (1912-1918)
- George Jessel
- 740: GEORGE JESSEL'S 50th BIRTHDAY ROAST April 4th, 1948
- 741: COLUMBIA DANCE BANDS (1925 - 28)
- 737: HEALING TIME - SOLO PIANO BY BRAD KAY
- See Brad Kay Play!
- GUESTBOOK
- FEATURED LENSES
- LINKS
- Suggested Reading
732: The original Superbatone LP, "JANE GREEN - WILD ROMANTIC BLUES
Thirteen tracks, including the soundtrack of Miss Green's Vitaphone short, "Singin' the Blues." A labor of love and work of art, this beautiful production (now a collectors' item) features a lavish 8-page booklet with bio, photos and complete song lyrics; the record is pressed on blue vinyl, with original label art by the great Robert Crumb.$20.
Listen to Jane Green Sing
Rare Singer: Jane Green - Mine All Mine, 1927
733: THE COMPLETE EARLY SOPHIE TUCKER (1910 - 1937)
Sophie Tucker was "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas" and for several decades the most famous woman in show business. She was also one of the great singers of her time, especially in her early years. She was a tremendous exponent of ragtime and early jazz. With her powerful voice and beat, she was a sort of Jewish Bessie Smith.For the first time anywhere, all her early recordings are gathered together in chronological order, from her "coon shouting" for Edison in 1910, to her sophisticated night club routines recorded in England in the late '30s. In between are all her records for Aeolian, OKeh, Victor, American and English Columbia and Broadcast. An indispensable collection.
One hundred-and-one tracks on four CDs, $55.00.
Each volume may be ordered separately for $15.00.
Sophie Tucker on YouTube!
Sophie Tucker 1934 in UK
734: THE REAL SOUND OF RAGTIME (1889 -1924)
Ragtime and the commercial recording industry arrived at the same time, in the late 1880s. From the beginning, cakewalks, rags and some very early proto-ragtime were committed to cylinder and disc. Besides being delightful entertainment, these records are priceless documents of how the music was performed in its era. Kerry Mills cakewalks, Scott Joplin classics, an Irving Berlin parody, James Reese Europe one-steps, an early Jelly Roll Morton piece and much more are included; performed by military bands, orchestras, solo banjos, xylophones, even a cembalon, and of course, singers. The records range in time and style from an 1889 brown wax cylinder of Issler's Orchestra playing the proto-ragtime "Electric Light Quadrille," to the utterly surreal Richard-Strauss-meets-Scott-Joplin "Ouija," played in 1920 by the Lakesonian Brass Sextette. The incredibly rare and hot "Gladiolus Rag" by the Pathé Dance Orchestra is reissued here for the first time.This CD has been engineered with care and skill so that these ancient performances can be played at Rock 'n' Roll volume with extremely gratifying results.
$15.
735: JANE GREEN (almost) COMPLETE (1920 - 1929)
Jane Green was the most talented gal singer in vaudeville. Her heartfelt, swinging, on-pitch voice, perfect diction and delivery, and absence of show-biz pathos added up to a style that was years ahead of her flapper contemporaries, and pointed the way to the future of popular singing. She was to them what Bix Beiderbecke was to other cornet players: lyrical and hot, impeccably musical. Like Bix, she died young (in 1931) and was utterly forgotten until the 1980s. This CD includes every title she recorded for Pathé and Victor, plus the soundtracks to her Vitaphone short and an RKO feature, "The Delightful Rogue." This disc is only a couple of alternate takes shy of being her complete recorded output. Essential.$15.
Listen to Jane Green Sing
Jane Green - I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now
Jane Green was a popular singer and Broadway actress in the 1920's. A good survey of her life and career can be found on http://www.squidoo.com/JaneGreen This great record was made for Victor on February 18th, 1927. Miss Green was accompanied by Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra.
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736: WILLARD ROBISON (1926-30)
He seems to be the "odd man out" of great American songwriters and composers. Robison was the author of one world-wide hit ("A Cottage for Sale") and a hundred other songs, a pioneer singer / songwriter with a totally beguiling style, and an orchestral composer of considerable wit and skill - AND he recorded prolifically. Despite all this, he remains vanishingly obscure, except to the few dedicated performers and collectors who over the years have happened onto his work. This CD is a very late attempt to remedy this. It consists entirely of original recordings of his compositions, performed or conducted by himself, during his years of greatest popularity, 1926 - 30. They fall into three groups: Willard Robison accompanying himself at the piano; his orchestral work "The American Suite"; and his vocals accompanied by studio orchestras at Victor and Columbia records.$15.
738: THE VICTOR MINSTRELS (1905-1915)
Eighty minutes of pure Americana. It's the whole blackface minstrel tradition, which began in 1843, complete with hot music and bad jokes. It was still alive and kicking in 1910, around when most of these sides were recorded. This troupe featured such Victor studio stalwarts as Billy Murray, Frank Stanley, Arthur Collins and Henry Burr, who are a whole lot livelier in blackface than in most other phases of their professional careers.$15.
739: MIKE BERNARD (1912-1918)
Fourteen of the fifteen solo piano sides recorded for American Columbia by this great and legendary ragtime super-virtuoso, collected together for the first time. His power, technique and sheer rhythmic force will astound you. He is the only such pianist to be recorded during the ragtime era (1897-1917). He thus stands in for a whole generation of pianists who were listening to Liszt with one ear and Joplin with the other. If you ever wanted a clue to the style and approach of such unrecorded and dimly remembered ragtime piano legends as "One Leg" Willie Joseph, Tony Jackson, "The Shadow" and others, this is the item to have.$15.
George Jessel
740: GEORGE JESSEL'S 50th BIRTHDAY ROAST April 4th, 1948
2 CDs, $25
741: COLUMBIA DANCE BANDS (1925 - 28)
A recently acquired group of store stock (i.e., untouched) Columbia records, of wonderfully orchestrated popular tunes by the likes of Ben Selvin, The Ipana Troubadours, The Cliquot Club Eskimos and others. Immaculately transferred to disc for your dining and/or dancing pleasure.$15.
737: HEALING TIME - SOLO PIANO BY BRAD KAY
Original music for healing / meditation / relaxing, but with a difference: Most so-called "healing" music is veritable pabulum - bland, innocuous at best, guaranteed to nauseate anyone with a discriminating ear. The music of "Healing Time" will relax AND entertain. These are carefully conceived and executed compositions that draw on the artist's background in early jazz, ragtime and modern classical music. They can be used as foreground or background. It's a candy mint. It's a breath mint. Either way, you win. Created in collaboration with the late jazz singer and expert meditator Susannah McCorkle.$15.
See Brad Kay Play!
Dew Drop Alley Stomp played by Brad Kay
Pianist Brad Kay specializes in rare tunes which he transcribes from old recordings (or old cartoons). Here he plays a rarity called "Dew Drop Alley Stomp" by Sugar Underwood, from 1927. Recorded on 11 August 2007 during the 9th annual Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival in Sutter Creek, California.
"Clap Hands; Here Comes Charlie" Brad Kay piano/vocals/kazoo
Brad Kay plays "Clap Hands; Here Comes Charlie" from 1935 by Ballard MacDonald, Joseph Meyer & Billy Rose. Recorded Sunday 12 August 2007 at the 9th annual Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival.
GUESTBOOK
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FEATURED LENSES
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Red Hot Jazz
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The music called Jazz was born sometime around 1895 in New Orleans. It combined elements of Ragtime, marching band music and Blues. What differentiated Jazz from these earlier styles was the widespread use of improvisation, often by more than one pla...
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Sophie Tucker
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Birth name Sonia Kalish Born January 13, 1884 Origin Czarist Russia Died February 9, 1966 Genre(s) Jazz vaudeville Occupation(s) Singer Comedian Instrument(s) vocalist Sophie Tucker, 1917 Sophie Tucker (January 13, 1884–February 9, 1966)...
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Jane Green
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Jane Green (2 January 1897 - 28 August 1931) was a United States singer popular in the 1920s. Green was born in Kentucky as Martha Jane Greene. She appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies and recorded over 30 phonograph records, and appeared in some early s...
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The Jazz Age
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The Jazz Age describes the period from 1918-1929, the years between the end of World War I and the start of the Roaring Twenties; ending with the rise of the Great Depression, the traditional values of this age saw great decline while the American st...
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The Talking Machine
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The Victor Talking Machine Company (1901–1929) was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. The company was founded by Eld...
LINKS
- The Red Hot Jazz Archive
- A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 2000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians.
- | Jazz Roots | Early Jazz History
- An Overview: 1895-1920.
- Women of Early Jazz
- Still, many of those 'all-women' bands that were popular in the 1920s and early '30s...
- More on Early Jazz
- Elite Syncopation ragtime and early jazz quintet repertoire.
- jazz :: Early Jazz -- Britannica Student Encyclopaedia
- jazz, Early Jazz: According to legend, the first improvising jazz musician was the cornetist Buddy Bolden, leader of a band in New Orleans.
- RECORDINGS; Early Jazz as Never Heard Before on Disk - New York Times
- Out of this combination of interests and skills has come something that collectors of early jazz recordings might never have thought possible: Reproductions ...
- THE HISTORY OF JAZZ MUSIC - BIG BAND ERA
- Jazz music history in the early 1900s with emphasis on 1920s and 1930s pre big band era jazz.
- ragtime -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- Britannica online encyclopedia article on ragtime: propulsively syncopated musical style, one forerunner of jazz and the predominant style of American ...
