1922 Pop Standards and Artists |
Carl Fenton Club Royal led by saxophonist Clyde Doerr Fanny Brice Fats Waller His professional career began at the age of 15 when he became the organist at the Lincoln Theater on 135th St. There is some evidence to suggest that Waller studied as a pianist under Leopold Gadowski and composition with Carl Bohm at the Julliard School. Waller was best known for his popular songs, but while in Britain on his 1939 European tour, he recorded his London Suite. This suite shows his aspirations to become a serious composer. Fats Waller died too soon, in 1943, of too much alcohol and hard living. His legacy is the music he left behind. T’Aint Nobody’s Business If I Do Henry Burr Lambert Murphy Marion Harris Paul Whiteman In 1918, Whiteman organized a dance band in San Francisco. Not long after he moved to New Jersey and finally settled in New York in 1920. He soon became the best known American band leader especially with his recordings of Whispering and Japanese Sandman. For his first extended concert tour in the United States, he commissioned George Gershwin to write Rhapsody in Blue. From 1928 to 1952 Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra was featured on many network radio shows. They also took part in several films starting in 1930 with King of Jazz. The orchestra provided music for six Broadway shows and produced more than 600 phonograph records. Later Whiteman would work as music director for ABC. He died in 1967. Whiteman’s musical memorabilia including his large library of more than 3000 arrangements was bequeathed to Williams College in Williamstown MA. The memorabilia and sheet music now form The Whiteman Collection. Three O’Clock In The Morning |
Top Artists and Songs of 1922 |
Al Jolson April Showers, Angel Child Give Me My Mammy Coo Coo |
Carl Fenton – Carl was really Walter Gustave “Gus” Haenschen. Fenton came from Fenton, Missouri. Gus legally became Carl in 1932. I’ll Build A Stairway To Paradise |
Club Royal Orchestra The Sheik |
Ernest Hare and Billy Jones In The Little Red Schoolhouse |
Ernest Hastings My Word You Do Look Queer |
Ethel Waters – Starred in Cabin in the Sky, a 1940 Broadway musical, and in the 1943 film version, featuring an all-black cast. There’ll Be Some Changes Made |
Fanny Brice – Brice was featured in The Ziegfeld Follies both on stage and on the screen. Second Hand Rose My Man |
Fats Waller Taint Nobody’s Biz-Ness If I Do (also heard in Woody Allen’s 1973 film, Sleeper) |
Frank Crumit Stumbling |
Gallagher & Sheen Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean |
Henry Burr (January 15, 1882 – April 6, 1941, real name Harry Haley McClaskey) My Buddy |
Isham Jones On The Alamo Ivy Cling To Me |
Joseph Smith and his Orchestra Three O’Clock in the Morning |
Lambert Murphy I Dream Of Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair |
Mamie Smith Lonesome Mama Blues |
Marion Harris I’m Just Wild About Harry Aggrivatin’ Papa Some Sunny Day Rose of the Rio Grande Blue (And Broken Hearted) |
Nora Bayes All Over Nothing At All Good Morning |
Paul Whiteman Three O’Clock In The Morning – Signature Song (one of several) Stumbling Do It Again Hot Lips I’ll Build A Stairway To Paradise Crinoline Days, Journey’s End Some Sunny Day Coal Black Mammy Oriental (Fox Trot) |
Peerless Quartet – Although record-keeping was pretty spotty at that time, the Peerless Quartet had an estimated 108 “charting” singles, between 1904–1928, the 9th-most of the pre-rock, period, according to Billboard’s Joel Whitburn. Way Down In New Orleans |
Ray Miller and his Orchestra Sheik of Araby |
Trixie Smith My Man Rocks Me (With a Steady Roll) -may be the first song reference with the phrase “rock and roll” Give Me That Slow Drag |