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Walking into a Manhattan speakeasy in the mid-1920s: "Rusty Charley and Knife O'Halloran are having a drink together out of a bottle which Knife carries in his pocket, so as not to get it mixed up with the liquor he sells his customers, and are cutting up old touches of the time when they run with the Hudson Dusters together, when all of a ...
Traditional. "I've Been Working on the Railroad" is an American folk song. The first published version appeared as "Levee Song" in Carmina Princetonia, a book of Princeton University songs published in 1894. [1] The earliest known recording is by The Shannon Quartet, released by Victor Records in 1923. [2]
Sheet music cover showing songwriter Charles K. Harris (bottom left) and performer J. Aldrich Libbey (main photo) Charles K. Harris singing "After the Ball" in the late 1920s. "After the Ball" is a popular song written in 1891 by Charles K. Harris. The song is a classic waltz in 3/4 time. In the song, an uncle tells his niece why he has never ...
The Opies have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early versions, there are two ...
The song name was a 1920s slang term for a big spender, a traveling businessman in the habit of spending large amounts of money in nightclubs. The song is also known as "I Want a Big Butter and Egg Man" or "Big Butter and Egg Man from the West". Armstrong recorded the song again in 1951 for Decca Records as a duet with Velma Middleton.
Bandcamp. Duster is an American indie rock band from San Jose, California that was formed in 1996. The group has consisted of multi-instrumentalists Clay Parton, Canaan Dove Amber, and Jason Albertini for most of its history; Albertini left the band in 2022. Duster were closely associated with the burgeoning slowcore and space rock revival ...
Download QR code; Wikidata item; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Pages in category "1920s slang" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
I Told Them All About You. I'd Like to Be in Texas for the Roundup in the Spring. I'll Always Be in Love with You. (I'll Be with You) In Apple Blossom Time. I've Found a New Baby. I've Never Seen a Straight Banana. If I Had You (1928 song) If Love Were All. If You Knew Susie.