Novelty Tunes of the Roaring 20s, Volume 1 is a compilation of popular music that captures some of the light-hearted side of those times as recorded on the Edison Label (Edison Diamond Discs) via the newly developed electrical recording process.
With the victory of the First World War behind them, the working class of America in the 1920’s was poised for rapid social change because of a booming economy in which there was very little unemployment. The Tin Lizzy (and later the Ford Model A, with their optional rumble seats) made transportation readily available to the masses due to their low cost coupled with readily available credit. Subsequently, the population began to extend out from the urban areas to the less populated suburban regions of the country because of the automobile.
The advent of radio brought advances in home entertainment to large numbers of people. The 1920s also featured prohibition which did little to hamper the happy-go-lucky times that the folks had with their spare time because bootleg hooch was readily available. And, Americans enjoyed more free time than in past generations and did much to take good advantage of it with leisure activities including baseball, dance halls and speakeasy’s.

Available only as a downloadable zip file

Song list

1. Nagasaki, Jack Kaufman & The Seven Blue Babies
2. Get Em In A Rumble Seat, Billy Jones & Ernest Hare
3. Button Up Your Overcoat, Golden Gate Orchestra
4. There’s A Rainbow Round My Shoulder, Golden Gate Orchestra
5. I Want To Be Bad, Golden Gate Orchestra
6. That’s My Weakness Now, B. A. Rolfe
7. Beautiful, B. A. Rolfe
8. The St. Louis Blues, B. A. Rolfe
9. I Just Roll Along, Vaughn De Leath
10. Where Did You Get That Name ?, Jack Dalton & The Seven Blue Babies
11. When Your With Somebody Else, The Florida Four
12. Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine), Billy Murray & Walter Scanlan
13. Once In A Lifetime, Duke Yellman & His Orchestra
14. You’re A Real Sweetheart, Duke Yellman & His Orchestra
15. Anything You Say, Oreste & His Queensland Orchestra
16. Ten Little Miles From Town, Oreste & His Queensland Orchestra
17. Baby, Oh Where Can You Be?, Phil Spitalny’s Music
18. When My Dreams Come True, Phil Spitalny’s Music
19. Susianna, Piccadilly Players
20. Weary River, Piccadilly Players