Pop Music: Early Years 1890-1950

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 12, 1999)
• Original Release Date: October 12, 1999
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00001SIF9
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,059 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Washington Post March

2. King of the Bungaloos

3. How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?

4. When the Moon Shines on the Moonshine

5. Swanee

6. Oh, Lady Be Good

7. Yes Sir, That's My Baby

8. If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)

9. Some of These Days

10. My Blue Heaven

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Diga Diga Doo

2. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

3. Easter Parade

4. The Object of My Affection

5. The Lady in Red

6. The Music Goes 'Round and Around

7. I Can't Get Started

8. These Foolish Things

9. The Toy Trumpet

10. Nightmare

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good survey of Post WW1, June 8, 2000

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Flying "Pretzel" (FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pop Music: Early Years 1890-1950 (Audio CD)

This album only has one track from 1890, Sousa's marching band. And another from 1911, Gene Greene. Then comes a 1918 recording from Nora Bayes. A wonderful compilation, but you might want to check out American Pop; Minstrel to Mojo, which does a better job with the 1910's.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great revue of early 20th century pop!, June 14, 2001

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F. Lowell "Midnightdj" (Highland Mills, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pop Music: Early Years 1890-1950 (Audio CD)

What I most enjoy about this compilation is the obscurity of so much of the music. Most compilations tend to include the same music that is available on countless other collections. This features a great deal of tunes I'm sure most people do not own and in many cases probably never even heard before! If you enjoy the unusual...the different...give this compilation a try. It's not necessarily music you will just want to pop into the CD player and listen to straight through, but put it on shuffle with some other cd's and you have a wonderful counterpoint to more familiar music.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great intro to pre-war pop music, March 29, 2000

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M.R. (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pop Music: Early Years 1890-1950 (Audio CD)

You know all those songs you hear and you think, "old"? Not new wave old, not even rockabilly old--REAL old. Well, they're here on this great budget-priced collection, the songs that you hear nowadays on commercials, period movies, and re-runs of ancient cartoons: "Yes, Sir! That's My Baby"; "If You Knew Susie"; "Makin' Whoopee"; "Happy Days Are Here Again"; "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?"; "Prisoner of Love"; "Buttons and Bows"; and even "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. These and other great songs are beyond classification--they are part of American culture, something that all Americans share no matter what genre of music they prefer. If you're at all interested in the history of popular song, check this out. You'll find it irresistable.