1920-1929: selected standards and hits
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- 1890-1899 selected hits and standards
- 1900-1909 selected standards and hits
- 1910-1919 selected standards, hits, and special features
- 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926 (1), 1926 (2), 1927, 1928, 1929
See also my Jazz Age page for information about this period, and for links to feature pages on songwriters and performers.
1920 selected standards and hits
- 1920-1929: selected standards and hits
- 1921 selected standards, hits, and other songs (to be revised)
- 1922 selected standards
- 1923 selected standards and hits
- 1924 selected standards
- 1925 selected standards and hits
- 1926 selected standards and hits, part 1
- 1926 selected standards and hits, part 2
- 1927 selected standards and hits
Baby Face (m. Harry Akst, w. Benny Davis)
The Savoy Orpheans — 1926
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My 1928 feature is a large one. There are 18 songs included, all of them standards: 8 in the first part, 1928 selected standards, part 1, and 10 in the second part, 1928 selected standards, part 2. Five of the 18 songs are featured separately in their own pages. For 1929, and subsequent annual pages up to 1954, each included song has its own separate page.
- 1928 selected standards, part 1: I Wanna Be Loved by You, If I Had You, When You’re Smiling, Sweet Lorraine, Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love), She’s Funny That Way, I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby, I Must Have That Man
- 1928 selected standards, part 2: Makin’ Whoopee, Love Me or Leave Me, My Baby Just Cares For Me, Button Up Your Overcoat, I’ve Got a Crush on You, Together, Creole Love Call, Lover Come Back to Me, Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise, El Manisero (The Peanut Vendor)
Individual song feature pages, 1928:
- 1929 standards and hits
- Ain’t Misbehavin
- Happy Days Are Here Again
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Like a Breath of Springtime
- Louise
- Mean to Me
- More Than You Know
- Puttin’ On the Ritz
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Stardust
- Te quiero dijiste (Magic is the Moonlight)
- Under a Texas Moon: selected early recordings, 1929-1930
- With a Song in My Heart
- You Do Something to Me
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See also the following Songbook pages featuring songwriters and performers active during the Jazz Age:
Composers:
- Irving Berlin
- Shelton Brooks: standards, 1911-1917
- Spencer Williams: selected standards and hits, 1915-1936
- Walter Donaldson: My Blue Heaven, a selection of standards, hits, and other songs 1918-1934
- George Gershwin biography
- George and Ira Gershwin: selected songs, 1919-1927
- George and Ira Gershwin: selected standards, 1928-1935
- Ray Henderson: selected standards and hits 1923-1931
- Duke Ellington
- Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields: the standards 1928-1935 – Their early compositions as a team are within the Jazz Age era, particularly two hits and two standards from 1928.
Performers:
- Mamie Smith, early recordings 1920-29
- Bessie Smith: 1923-1926
- Bessie Smith: 1927-1933 + gallery
- Ethel Waters
- Clarence Williams: selected recordings 1923-1929
- Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five: recordings 1925-1928 (.ra audio files)
- Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, 1926 selections — Armstrong is also present, as noted in the musician credits, on several recordings in our first Bessie Smith feature page.
- Ruth Etting: selected recordings 1927-1935
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Musical theater and film of the Jazz Age:
Musical theater:
- Shuffle Along and the return of African-American musical theater to Broadway during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s — includes photo galleries
- Blackbirds (1926): early recordings of selected songs in the revue
Late Jazz Age musical films:
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