2020
Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 29 (1921)
Time: 8pm GMT, Saturday 7th November 2020Place: Cambridge 105 Radio Audio curator James Errington is joined from New York by Michael Daddino to explore original recordings from 1921, including more classical female blues, novelty piano, melancholy Klezmer, the organised chaos of Dixieland jazz, and the most unintentionally sinister recording of the decade. You can listen …
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1930
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1929 in Film
Man With a Movie Camera Un Chien Andalou Woman in The Moon The Broadway Melody Gold Diggers of Broadway The Hollywood Revue of 1929 Diary of a Lost Girl Pandora’s Box Unaccustomed As We Are The Hoose-Gow The Haunted House The Skeleton Dance Coquette (1929) Blackmail Madame X Applause The Cocoanauts The Love Parade Rio …
The CoS Tapes #3 — Russian Records 1901-1908 #1 – Three Paths Across The Field
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Radio Podcast #5 — 1894 to 1895
MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS James and Sean continue their voyage into the distant history of sound recording. This time we cover the years 1894 and 1895, a time of popular unrest, great literature, and a burgeoning wax cylinder market, with at least two songs bound …
The Late 1920s – The Symphony
Another exclusive orchestral mix, available as a podcast for patreon backers. This one has classical / orchestral music recorded between 1927 and 1929, and features a section in stereo! 0:00:00 Dajos Béla and His Dance Orchestra – Jalousie (1927)0:02:44 Hotel Commodore Ensemble, directed by Bernhard Levitow – Clair de lune- suite Bergamasque (1927)0:06:49 Philadelphia Orchestra …
The Twenties
1920 – “a genuine watershed moment, and a genuinely brilliant record” 1921 – “the margins are expanding, cracks are forming, soon this wonderful infection is going to be irresistible in its spread.” 1922 – “a massive expansion of classical female blues, with a knock-on explosion of resurgent jazz” 1923 – “The people running those “race …
Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 28 (1920)
Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 10th September 2020Place: Cambridge 105 Radio Another trip into the early days of recorded music with audio curator James Errington, this time joined by Grammy-nominated blues, soul, and Americana singer and songwriter Janiva Magness to explore the sounds of 1920, the year Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds kicked off the …
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