The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

Played on a Brunswick Seville "Panatrope" Exponential Phonograph (that was a mouthful).

http://youtu.be/nj8OacZPZjo

Strange light emanating from the lower right side of the frame is either:
A) An artifact from Brunswick's "Light Ray" recording technique.
B) A problem with the time/space continuum.
C) A bad attempt at lighting by me (I will never get an award for cinematography!).

Lil appears to have been the second Mrs. Louis Armstrong.

Parov Stelar must have liked this tune (he used quite a bit of it for "Booty Swing").

Thanks for this! My FT job is in the library at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which sits on the site of the old Chicago South Side, State Street "Stroll"--the Black entertainment district of the 1920s. Immediately east of the library is a quadrangle of grass--where, nearly a century ago, sat the music store where Lil Hardin sight read scores and memorized so many of them. I walk through that area every weekday. It's one of those coincidences of life that, just as I took up an interest in 1920s pop and jazz music, I started working at a place that sits on top of so much jazz history.