1925 ORIGINAL CHARLESTON Paul Whiteman OrcRecord78rpm
  $   98

 


$ 98 Sold For
Nov 10, 2008 Sold Date
Oct 31, 2008 Start Date
$   25 Start price
13   Number Of Bids
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A series of great  JAZZ Records from early Ragtime to Beb-Bop on 78 rpm Victrola Records



The most famous Charleston Recording, Paul Whiteman and Orchestra on one of his first electric Victor Records on desirable Oakland CA pressing! With the famous "Chinese" style scat singing by Paul Whiteman himself!

Charleston

Honey - I'm in Love with you Fox Trot

10" 78 rpm record

Condition:

EXCELLENT MINUS, clean and shiny, lightest scuffs - A CHOICE COPY!

 

CHARLESTON
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So, by 1923, people were ready for something new, and it arrived in the form of a dance called the "Charleston", composed by James Price Johnson, and lyricist Andy Razaf. The song was featured in the 1923 Afro-American Broadway musical "Running Wild", and was sung by Elizabeth Welch, but did not catch on with the public until the all-Black cast of "Running Wild" appeared in "Florenz Ziefeld's Follies of 1923". No other dance epitomizes the spirit and joyous exhuberance of the 1920's more than the "Charleston". The dance became so widely popular that even to this day, it is still the main symbol of the 1920s Jazz Age. "Tin Pan Alley" turned out hundreds of "Charleston" variations, and Charleston contests, were a regular part of Dance halls and hotels everywhere. Hospitals began receiving patients complaining of "Charleston knee." Interestingly, the Stodgier ballrooms tried to discourage the frenetic "Charleston" by posting signs that read simply, "PCQ" ("Please Charleston Quietly"). Today, in our mind's eye, we visualize Flappers with their knock knees, crossing hands, and flying beads dancing the Charleston.

One of the more successful variants, a dance called the "Black Bottom", was first introduced in the 1926 Broadway edition of George White's "Scandals Listen now to a 1926 version of the "Black Bottom", as played by Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders. Within that one year, the dance swept not only America, but the entire world. Eventually, all the early dances lost popularity and the Foxtrot became the preferred dance

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Pls note that I try to be extremely careful and consistent in my grading. All records are graded with the same criteria, regardless of genre.

My grading should give you a good idea how the record you receive will look like.

Surface VISUAL GRADING:

EXCELLENT - clean and shiny, as new. E minus is the same, with light scuffing.

Very Good Plus - Clean, with a little more scuffing. Some grooves spots may have some light greying. Little if any distortion.

Very Good - a clean copy, some scuffing, some greying on a single groove or a few small groove bands. Enjoyable record, maybe light distortion on some top notes.

=> Everything up to here is a great and enjoyable record

Very Good Minus - May have areas of visible wear, may have some scuffing or dulled surface. Still a great record, but ticks, pops and some distortion.

Good Plus - a worn and scuffed copy. May have other defects separately stated. Plays well, but with noise, may require filtering.

All other defects (if any: Chips, cracks, scratches, lamination cracks, label damage, needle digs) will be stated SEPARATELY. "BUT" means that they are significant. "Faint" usually does not sound.

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