Romantic song from the '10s as a '20s dance band number

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EdisonSquirrel
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Romantic song from the '10s as a '20s dance band number

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I found it fascinating to compare these two vastly different versions of My melancholy baby.

The first is Walter Van Brunt's 1915 Blue Amberol (BA 2542):

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/ ... l0892d.mp3

The next is Willard Robison's Orchestra's 1927 rendition on Pathé Actuelle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wD6kze_Uo

Rocky

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