Roaring 1920s: My Fate Is In Your Hands - Nat Shilkret's Orch., 1929
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Nat Shilkret & His Victor Orchestra, with Vocal refrain - My Fate Is In Your Hands (Razaf /Waller) Victor 1929 (USA)
NOTE: It’s one of my favorite American dance orchestras of the Jazz Age. Nat Shilkret, pinist, composer and bandleader was not only an “ordinary” musician. As director of the “light music department” in Victor Records, he was also one of the most influential persons in the music life in USA in the 1920/30s. He made thousands of recordings, possibly more than anyone in recording history (his sales are estimated over 50 million copies!). He was the conductor of choice for many of Victor's innovative recordings and his Victor dance orchestra members included Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Mike Mosiello. He conducted Victor's first record made by the electrical process, the first commercial Victor Long Playing record (in 1931) and was the first conductor to successfully dub an electrically recorded orchestra background over the recordings of the greatest operatic tenor in history Enrico Caruso (who was the Victor star in the acoustical recordings era). Shilkret was also one of radio's earliest stars, estimating that he made over 3000 broadcasts between 1925 and 1941. The greatest virtuoses and singers of his times all played under his direction, in that number George Gershwin, Jascha Heifetz, Andrés Segovia, Feodor Chaliapin, Miguel Fleta, Amelita Galli-Curci, Beniamino Gigli, Lily Pons or Tito Schipa. The lists of popular singers and foreign artists that played under his direction after the 2nd World War is just as impressive. He was more than just a man and an artist: he was an institution and it’s hard to believe, after his death in 1982 he was almost immediately forgotten and today a handful of enthusiasts remembers, who he was.
This tune is also one of my favorites: composed by famous jazz pianist Thomas “Fats” Waller it belongs to the evergreen standards of the late 1920s. See another version recorded in 1929 by the popular Afro-American vocal duet Layton & Johnstone • Roaring Twenties: Layt...
The slideshow contains pictures of the “new woman” of the 1920s: an independent and strong type, which emerged from the Past in the early 20th century, and was called then “a sufragette” (in the 1900s/1910s), “a flapper” (in the 1920s) to open avenue towards today’s “feminist” (not in its “hard”, yet in the “light” version. I hope, those strong women portraits make proper background to the title “woman, who holds other’s people’s fate in her hands”.
Oh mon Dieu, oh mon Dieu, tu es si doux et je ris à haute voix tout en tapant mes pieds, merci beaucoup plus cher monsieur, maintenant je suis un peu rougi et plutôt amusé, vous êtes plein d'exubérance fantastique. J'ai simplement aimé votre revue charismatique, très bien superbe Grzegorz, je, en vérité je vous remercie très beaucoup, avez vou un très beau & bon Samedi et Dimanche , jusqu'à prochain, ont un splendide et très très heureux temps, une belle beaucoup du mercis ¬‿¬ ))
'l'Exubérance Fantastique "... J'aime cette phrase et votre note est tout simplement merveilleux. Je suis heureux que ce canal vous donne tant de joie et de plaisir. Il est pas à cause de mon travail, mais la grande musique le fait. Merci et bonne soir!
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Grande video come sempre ...Grande musica e bellissime immagini
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Fantastico!
Thanks again;.
świetny foxtrot! :) Piękna prezentacja! :) Nie znałem tej piosenki! Dziękuję! :)
Pozdrawiam serdecznie!
Przepadam za aranżacjami Shilkreta, są rzeczywiście "hot" no i to bogactwo instrumentacji! Pozdrowienia :-)
Thanks for this Matt NY
Hi Matt and hi NY! Thanks :-)
Grazie Italy
Grazie!!!! Video sempre favolosi!!!Ciao
Ciao Lidia e grazie! :-)
A great Shilkret ... never heard one I didn't love and as always wonderful illustrations.
Thank you Dear . Wonderful
Thanks Olga :-) Have a good evening :-)
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Thanks a lot . Good evenibg too you
Up to Shilkret's exceptional standards... Visually, once more this video was a gem!
Bella música, y excelente tu trabajo, gracias por subir vídeos!!!
I, of course, share your enthusiasm for Nat Shilkret -- whether doing popular tunes such as this magnificent one from the great Waller-Razaf team, or the light classics. Those performances under his baton are always top-notch. The slideshow is a fascinating representation of the emergence of the strong female -- it was about time!
I know about your enthusiasm for Shilkret and I expected you'd have some fun while watching this video. I'm glad I was not mistaken ad you did enjoy it. In 1920s. he really was an ultra-maestro on the dance music scene, comparable in his skills only with Whiteman. :-)
Heard Guy Lombardo and Lou Gold before this. Both were lighter, slower and, to me, fit Razaf's lyrics better. This up tempo version fits a fox trotting dance hall better. Also, I can imagine more of Waller's piano this way. Very interesting collection of illustrations.