[Dixielandjazz] How did key tunes get into the standard dixieland repertoire?

[D and R Hardie]

Hello all,
                 As Sheik points out popular songs  are part of the 
history of jazz. Buddy Bolden played hit tunes of his day like Ida and 
Lazy Moon.
                     Another early source was the religious music of the 
time. You can catch a video of the Buddy Bolden Revival Orchestra 
playing the Jubilee- Ride on King Jesus at:
   http://www.esnips.com/web/BuddyBoldenRevivalOrchestra

regards
Dan Hardie
website
http://tinyurl.com/nqaup

On Sunday, September 9, 2007, at 03:52  AM, dwlit at cpcug.org wrote:

> By "standard Dixieland repertoire" I mean today's most commonly played 
> tunes.
>
> Let's ignore the 40s New Orleans and West Coast revivals, which
> immeasurably broadened the possibilities. Or, we can take individual
> revival tunes with early origins--eg Maryland my Maryland, 1919 March. 
> We
> know they were old tunes, but how did Bunk, etc., reacquaint themselves
> with them?
>
> Actually, my initial concern was tunes such as "When you're smiling",
> which dates from 1928. Perhaps Armstrong's record was the jazz spark,
> perhaps Noone's. How widely was Coon Sanders Orch. listened to by 
> jazzers?
> If the tune was popular, why don't we have more records of it?
>
> It's not enough to identify the tunes as pop tunes. "I'm looking over a
> 4-leaf clover" was recorded by Goldkette and Al Jolson, but not picked 
> up
> by jazzers, yet it was a well-known "sing-along" tune even in the 50s.
>
> I've sort of backed into the question because when I can, I like to
> "justify" playing a tune or putting it into one of my books by naming a
> famous jazz figure who recorded it.
>
> The tunes are a basic part of the history of jazz, and jazz is part of 
> the
> history of many pop tunes: who played what, where, when and why? Dan 
> Hardy
> investigates some of this in his explorations of Buddy Bolden's music.
>
> --Sheik
>
>
>
>> Hi Gang. How did key pop tunes come into the standard Dixieland
>>  repertoire?
>> Who introduced 'em, or made 'em popular enough so that dixielanders
> adopted 'em? <snip>
>> --Sheik"
>>
>>
>> As I see it, many of the tunes in the Dixieland repertoire WERE the
> popular tunes of the day. Others were written specifically, such as the
> original raft of tunes by the ODJB. Eddie Condon used a lot of popular
> tunes - Bing Crosby hits etc. What amazes me is how long they have
> survived as Dixieland standards, especially as some of them are not 
> that
> good.
>> Graham Martin
>
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