Green Hill Instrumental - The Charleston
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- The Charleston is a dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called "The Charleston" by composer/pianist James P. Johnson which originated in the Broadway show Runnin' Wild, and became one of the most popular hits of the decade. Runnin' Wild ran from 29 October 1923 through 28 June 1924. The peak year for the Charleston as a dance by the public was mid 1926 to 1927.
While the dance probably came from the "star" or challenge dances that were all part of the African-American dance called Juba, the particular sequence of steps which appeared in Runnin' Wild were probably newly devised for popular appeal.
"At first, the step started off with a simple twisting of the feet, to rhythm in a lazy sort of way. [This could well be the Jay-Bird.] When the dance hit Harlem, a new version was added. It became a fast kicking step, kicking the feet, both forward and backward and later done with a tap." Further changes were undoubtedly made before the dance was put on stage.
In the words of Harold Courlander, while the Charleston had some characteristics of traditional Negro dance, it "was a synthetic creation, a newly-devised conglomerate tailored for widespread popular appeal." Although the step known as "Jay-Bird", and other specific movement sequences are of Afro-American origin, no record of the Charleston being performed on the plantation has been discovered.
Although it achieved popularity when the song "Charleston", sung by Elisabeth Welch, was added in the production Runnin' Wild, the dance itself was first introduced in Irving C. Miller's Liza in the spring of 1923.
Willie "The Lion" Smith noted that the dance was known well before that; in particular, he mentions the version done by Russell Brown under the name "Geechie dance".
The characteristic Charleston beat, which Johnson said he first heard from Charleston dockworkers, incorporates the clave rhythm and was considered by composer and critic Gunther Schuller to be synonymous with the Habanera, and the Spanish Tinge.
Johnson actually recorded several "Charlestons," and in later years derided most of them as being of "that same damn beat." Several of these were recorded on player piano rolls, several of which have survived to this day.
The Charleston and similar dances such as the Black Bottom which involved "Kicking up your heels" were very popular in the later part of the 1920s. They became less popular after 1930, possibly because after seven years of being fashionable people simply became less interested. The new fashion for floor level sheath evening dresses was also probably a factor. The new dresses constricted the leg movements essential for the Charleston. There is a British Pathé Instructional Short from 1933 in which a new variation - The "Crawl Charleston" - is demonstrated by Santos Casini and Jean Mence. This shows a very sedate version of dance similar to a Tango or Waltz. It wasn't until dress hem lines rose toward the end of the thirties that the Charleston is again seen in film.
A slightly different form of Charleston became popular in the 1930s and 1940s, and is associated with Lindy Hop. In this later Charleston form, the hot jazz timing of the 20s Charleston was adapted to suit the swing jazz music of the 1930s and 1940s. This style of Charleston has many common names, though the most common are Lindy Charleston, Savoy Charleston, 30s or 40s Charleston and Swinging Charleston. In both 20s Charleston and Swinging Charleston, the basic step takes eight counts and is danced either alone or with a partner.
Frankie Manning and other Savoy dancers saw themselves as doing Charleston steps within the Lindy rather than to be dancing Charleston.
Today Charleston is an important dance in Lindy Hop dance culture, danced in many permutations: alone (solo), with a partner, or in groups of couples or solo dancers. The basic step allows for a vast range of variations and improvisation. Both the 20s and Swinging Charleston styles are popular today, though swinging Charleston is more commonly integrated into Lindy Hop dancing.
20's kids will remember this
I don't think so, the last 20s kid I met couldn't remember where he left his teeth.
MrKlausbaudelaire
Ahahah not all of them! My grand-grandma (1914 - 2012) was totally senile and almost completely deaf, but when she was listening to this kind of music she couldn't help but shake her butt! XD
Bloody Davey
that kind of music could make even the DEAD dance x3
Bloody Davey Wow, she'd be over 100 this year !
yup. Unfortunately she died at 98. So close! :)
Can you believe that's nearly 100 years old!
Pretty cool! And the drums were different then. It was right around that time, I think 1927 that Papa Jo Jones got the idea to move the sock cymbal up and make it a high hat. Bass drums were still big, and the cymbals were flat on the stands, no tilters till the 30's or 40's. Also all the instruments were acoustic!
alex campbell wow
Whaaaaat!?
And it's only JUST entering the public domain this week!
@@AwSamWeston o.O
this is definitely one of the catchiest songs currently in the free domain, it has aged incredibly well!
you're in the comments of everything 1890s-1920s related
@@overpricedhealthcare ok, so?
@@HunterDriguez What purpose does responding with "ok so?" serve?
@@badpasters okay so?
This version is excellent! I have not heard any other version that is as good.
This song is almost 100 years old and it's only JUST entering the public domain this week! But just think of all the works that we've lost because people couldn't legally reprint them. Old film reels have rotted in their cases. Records have melted. Photos have faded away. And we've gone 20 years with no new works entering the Public Domain.
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution says "Congress shall have the power *to promote the Progress* of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"
95 years is too long. 95 years *inhibits* the arts. We need shorter copyright terms.
If Congress hadn't put the 20-year freeze on copyrights going into public domain, works from 1943 would be public domain. Even 75 years is too long. A reasonable time period imo is 20-30 years with no chance to renew it. This allows creators to be protected and make money from their works while still ensuring that there's a good chance it would be public domain in your lifetime and you could use it creatively however you wanted. If works up to 1988 were public domain, we would see a lot less shameless cash-grabbing sequels and remakes out of Hollywood, and they would strive to make the best movie possible to beat the competition. I'm in high school and if I made a copyrighted work today, my grandchildren would probably be retired by the time it enters public domain.
You can thank The Mouse for the shitshow of a copyright law this country has. Yay corruption!
Ah, corporatism! Don't you love it, fellas?
If there was a politcian that promised to repeal all those terrible old laws, Most of copyright, the NFA, etc, He'd get my vote.
There is an easier way, remove copyright
Can we please have the whole 20's craze back? The music the fashions and the carefree FUN! please please please... We need it so badly after this whole miserable pandemic
I doubt a time period like this will ever come again.
yes i mean aye
Make another gatsby movie and you will get it.
I like the Charleston and the jazz music and the dancing.
The Spanish Flu, between World Wars, an imminent stock market crash, little to no government oversite of working hours, pay, or conditions….
Yes please bring the 20s back.
Officially public domain.. you can play this song now without getting sued.
wrong. Recordings have different copyright laws, and until January 1 2022, any audio recording made prior to 1923 is STILL copyrighted.
@@gunnarthefeisty www.copyright.gov/history/lore/pdfs/201901%20CLore_January2019.pdf
It's 2023, so this song is 100 years old, and it's still awesome.
Now its 2024
Wow who knew we would be listening to this 100 years later.
We must organize a massive movement to bring back the styles and music of the 20's starting next year. We need to make sure the 2020's roar like the 1920's did
Edit: After surviving the first few years of the 20s, I think it's safe to say it's gonna take a bit to make the decade roar in any positive way.
Lol 2020s has started with Corona pandemic
@@KA-dd3ou I mean 1920s started with some sort of grand issues or something too right?
2022 LOL
@@KnoxForReals Spanish flu if I remember correctly
That one didnt age well 😭
Listening to this 100 years after it was a chart topper.
meghan trainer also sampled it
Freaking love this! I have a complete obsession with 1920's music!!!
who dosent
Ha ha same !
abitofabore Me too!!!
@Timothy Mckeethe democrats and Republicans both loved America in 1920...
@Timothy Mckee I agree.. I'm a conservative.. So yeah, I agree
This kind of music is priceless, It speaks of times gone by... At least, we can re-live it through recordings and state of mind!
My friend and I had to come up with a dance from another decade so we chose 1920's. We used this song for our dance and when we preformed it everyone was shocked that we chose 1920's but they all loved our dance.
+Maddie Jordan Well done. As a retro-futurist making fiction from different times is a hobby of mine. Glad you were able to use your imagination to impress people. Good on ya!
My older brother did it in the 6th grade with members of his class.
"Oh yes, oh yes, the big Charleston contest! Those not tapped by the judges will remain on the floor. Let's go!"
I’m the kinda guy who’d fall in the pool
"Hey, we must be doing pretty good"!
Absolutely Love the movie, and that scene in particular! One of my favorite gems of all time!!!
David LoganSr what movie is this?
A J It’s a Wonderful Life, staring Jimmy Stewart And Donna Reed. It’s classic Christmas movie. It’s definitely one of my top 20 favorites!
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN..... Welcome back to the '20s.
ah shıt here we go agaın
We even have a pandemic AND our economy is going to shit, definitely the 20s again.
@@ncrtrooper7358 The economy collapsing was October 29, 1929. The bars all being closed, on the other hand . . .
Certamaniac Bars or Speakeasies? They’re kinda sorta the same thing but the Volstead act and Prohibition stuff failed miserably.
Already am
This is so upbeat. So timeless.
This was my school bell. Never have I had so much fun going to class
Im blasting this New Years Eve 2019 when the clock hits midnight. Lets make the wild spirit of the 2020's as roaring as the 1920's
Edit (December 2020) well fuck.....
yayyy
Ain't gonna happen
Maybe this comment worked a bit too well 😂 we nearly had a world war, Kobe died, Australia’s on fire, and we got a virus sweeping the world. Got a bit too wild
Only if you knew
@@CharlieCat18 aswell as the stock market crashing AGAIN
100 years now. Happy 2020
I remember this when it first came out. I was about 48 years old....
In 1920? You were 48... you would be the longest loving human B) congrats
Today marks the 100th birthday of the composition The Charleston (the dance style), composed by Stride Pianist James P. Johnson. The song was featured in the American black Broadway musical comedy show Runnin' Wild, which had its premiere at the New Colonial Theatre in New York on October 29, 1923.
Iconic dance music from the first recognizably "modern" decade.
100 years later, loving this
I'm getting New Orleans vibes from this song.
This song has been stuck in my head for days
Oye yo ya te había visto en otro video
This is the first song I played on New Year, starting off the decade right 😀
This aged well
@@airsoftcarter7863 Indeed it has
Shout out to the young black men and women who created these dances way back in the 20s till now in the 00s ❤ we have always been the trend setters and still are till this day.
True
Im a kid and I love this type of music :) Actually, I like any music from rock to heavy mental to pop to jazz to classic :D I love this song!
It’s been 9 years... u still a kid?
Heavy mental is what i take antidepressants for budum tssss
My friend got me into the love of old music. Me and him are 13 and we love old style music and life style. I'd be much happier in this time period where they didn't have cell phones or video games for me to be addicted to
+Zach Seuser No, I'm fairly sure you wouldn't have wanted to live your 20's in the depression.
+The Captain Oh trust me, i figured it out, thanks for bringing me back to this video
Zach Seuser Hey, if it means someon gets to listen to this song again :)
+The Captain Yea!
And prohibition (no beer!)... but then again we could've made a living like bootlegging or something.
Ah yes the roaring twenties. For the United States it was the after war party. Then the Great Depression came and that was the hangover. x3
nice metaphor
fedemonsalve
thanks x3
fedemonsalve Technically, this is not a metaphor. You see, the comparison was not hidden, in any way. Had he written: "A party before the inevitable hangover", it would've been a metaphor.
Romet Monte-Cristo
Who cares about physics anyway.
Cherry Bomb yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh my god it just sounds so good, I'm getting chills.
I miss my Great-Grandma so much... She passed away in 2010 and was born in 1922
Her husband and my great-grandpa was born in 1916
But my other great-grandma was probably the luckiest, born in 1910
Sadly died after I was conceived in 2003
This never fails to make me happy.
Por que no se pone de moda de nuevo ya estamos en los 20's de nuevo...😁😁
When you realize it's the roaring twenties all over again
except right now its not to roaring
Hayden Woodall whining twenties? 😂
@@beautifullEternal exactly
More like the Great Depression bahahah
@@beautifullEternal Haha yes
My daughter and members of her high school danced to this tonight :)
Grand daughter? Haha!
It is relevant again!
I sing this with my jazz band, it's my absolute favourite to sing 🎉
Fantastic,music of an almost forgotten era,the1920,s
Im 18 but I cherish songs like this... ;)
Wow... you’re 26 now
@@airsoftcarter786329 now...
Playing this on New years 2020🎉
I'm here just because I listened to some of the legend of korra themes and now I'm into 1920's jazz
oh the sequel of avatar, yeah it was really good. I'm a big fan of the 20s and avatar so that show was right up my alley.
MikasaScarlett
I loved how that show remade the 20s-49s era.
In love with the show and its osts
Lol. i love tlok but i just have a really fucking old soul
Avatar + twenties age culture = yaas
This kind of songs showing us, back then the music industry is damn fascinating
100 years old and still a banger
I was born in 2077 and I prefer this over today's music x3
tue 2020s is starting to really look like the 1920s ..
Starts with pandemic and massive wage gap.
So good song, that style... I miss it!
first heard this on the Ken Burns jazz documentary and it caused me to fall in love with early jazz in addition to my love for big band and hard bop
oh yeah this and big band are the stuff!☺
this got me dancing hysterically around my room the beat is so timeless
First thing I thought of after being in the roaring 20's again.
I was born in 2004, and this is real music
I listen to this song whenever I put on my suit. xD Makes me feel all gentlemanly and shit
that "shit" at the end kills it xD
TrademarkTytan I bet you where fedoras on the regular
Graham Real *wear
TrademarkTytan same
same
You gotta love the John Held, jr, illustration- he was the guy who drew the 20s. I think he's still stylish today.
Never gets old
Shown my kids this type of music and dance. And the films of that time. Dont worry some kids of today won't forget.
I think this one of the few popular American songs ever written in clave. ¡Que no pare la rumba!
i tried to do the dance and am now writing this comment from the for because i rolled my ankle
😂😂😂
Imagine walking past a cemetery and you just hear this song playing from the distance
🤣
Music at it's finest!
Man, I wish I was born in 1903 because bing was born then but also I think that is a good time to see the world really become a world. now so sorry for people born now but life sucks now and the government had to start thinking. (Back then even in 60's we were free.)
i came here because of the original great gatsby and i absolutely love it
God I love that Tuba solo, I don't know why but it's so funny!
Pretty sure that's a baritone, not a tuba
Matthew Dixson Pretty sure you are wrong about that. No baritone to be heard soloing in this song.
+Joey van Doesburg xD. I know what a baritone is. I AM one in choir.
This song is so good
God, this song is 100 years old.
Let's revive this in the 2020s
a wonderful version of this classic!!!! greatttttttttttttttttt!
It just had a crisp feel and a fun twirl all together great
I have half a mind to blast this out my window on the early morning of January 1st, 2020.
1920's & 2020's 🎺😀👍
Keeps me calm every time
I love 20s music for the syncopation feel. Nothing like a good catchy 20s pop song
Exceptional taste in music brought me here
Every time I here this song, I jump into my dinner jacket, head down to the club and dance the Charleston.
It reminds me the few years I lived in Paris when I was little. Sweet memories
Good music is timeless, no need to be from a certain time to appreciate.
This tune always brightens my day!
This song gets me in the mood to dance
love it! the twenties are well before my time, but I love jazz! and as an artist I love Art Deco!
The 20s were before your time? Oh! I thought you were 100
Charleston! Charleston! Made in Carolina
Some dance, some prance, I’ll say
There’s nothing finer than the
Charleston, Charleston, Lord how you can shuffle
Every step you do, leads to something new
Man, I’m telling you, it’s a lapazoo
Buck dance, wing dance, will be a back number
But the Charleston, the new Charleston
That dance is surely a comer
Some time you’ll dance it one time
The dance called the Charleston
Made in South Caroline”
I've been to Charleston and I wish it was this cheery. Lol
who else sometimes wish they lived in this "era"? 😭😭😭
Jsjsjsjsjs ....only for a few days.
@@11dsw same :V
Nah, only really rich people would like to live in this time.
Oh hell no why I want to live there diseases racism don't forget that the great depression
@@spacebam1921 As Chic said "Ah yes World Wars, Polio and racial segregation" Those were truly BETTER times! Who wouldn't want to live back then?!?!?
*When I Hear This It Reminds me the The Great Depression....*
The music and clothing on point . Two this very day The Flapper Clothes and Style are timeless, you will be the Belle Of The Ball in Jazz Age Attire.
My Grandma used to dance the Charleston when I was A kid...and I have to say this very good
Ah the 1920s, I hope the 2020s learn about this...
(Edit)
Yes im quite aware that 2020 has been an awful year.
+Paulo Moya Caravan Palace :D
Francisco A wouldn’t that be great just imagine
i know right i hope that this stuff comes back and the stock market will bomb agian :)
Francisco A oh yes please
How about the 2020s are a repeat of the 1920s minus the racism, discrimination, prohibition, communism, and stock market crash at the end. That sounds good.
it took me 2 years to find this...finally...
I rember back when i was in elementry school in edgefeild south carolina when we actually did the dance for this, man i miss south carolina
Ahora que está canción es de dominio público la voy a usar libremente
Me encanta éste tipo de música.
Ray Charles wrote this? Holy moly he’s a singer and and a composer
Your actually dumb
This was written probably when ray charles was born 😂😂
@@danielking3170 You’re a dick
@@airsoftcarter7863 i didint ask
We are in the 20s and listening to this amazing song
Wow, i am an 2009 kid. And i just find music, BUT I HEARD IT BEFORE! it is so old now, i have so many memories man 😁
This is my jam. Happy new year everyone! 😊
My Tracer obsession has now brought me to the 20's
Oh my goodness ! Glen Miller and Benny Goodmen are the talent thats missing today. WoW! They are soooooo good!
They are from the 1930's, but we do need them too. The 1920's and the 1930's.
This is my favorite time period for music
For some reason, I always hear this music playing at the back of my mind when I'm sad.
This is the whip/nae nae of the 1920s
*change my mind*
Pretty much. People would get in these mindsets to be photographed in,” The largest Charleston dancing group”, or, “ The longest Time dancing the Charleston, 6 hours!” And trendy magazines would publish them for a fee.
just like how the twist was the gangnam style of the 60's
I'm 12 and love this song. In my dance class, two boys have a choreography for this song and it's so good.
Welcome back Roaring 20’s!!