Ory’s Creole Trombone by Kid Ory’s Sunshine Orchestra.Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo’bye) by Al Jolson.The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise by Isham Jones Orchestra.‘Way Down Yonder in New Orleans by Margaret Young.Here are some of the top songs from 1922, to give you a taste: Peruse the collection to hear early jazz classics like Don’t Care Blues by Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds, Ory’s Creole Trombone by Kid Ory’s Sunshine Orchestra, and Jazzin’ Babies Blues by Ethel Waters.Įarly recordings by Bert Williams (the first Black American on Broadway and the first Black man to star in a film), Fanny Brice (the real-life ‘Funny Girl’), Enrico Caruso (the legendary Italian operatic tenor), and so many others give life and flavor to our imaginings of the early 20th century. Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1911) written by Irving Berlin and performed by Collins and Harlan In fact, 1922 was the year Louis Armstrong left New Orleans to join King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band in Chicago. Jazz migrated from Black American communities in New Orleans into the rest of the United States, having evolved from its roots in rag time, blues and Creole music. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tales of the Jazz Age was published in 1922, and the term was already in popular usage. You can peruse about 38,000 of them in our collection of digitized 78rpm records.īy 1922 we were solidly in the Jazz Age – F. for the first time due to the Music Modernization Act (read more at ).
Recorded Music from 1922 and earlierĪpproximately 400,000 sound recordings made before 1923 will join the public domain in the U.S. And this year the big story is in recorded music. Every January we feature works that are entering the public domain.
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