Vintage Muisc: 1920s and 30s

I came across a couple of CD's mixed by a Dutch DJ called DJ Blue Flamingo.

All the music he uses comes from 78 RPM records and is old Jazzy style, very fun and danceable.

I was googling a bit and it seems like you don't need to buy 78 RPMs for that, most of the music should be available on CD.

Anyone know what exactly I am looking for and where to find it?

I think the genres I like are called Dixie and 2-step but there might be others as well.

I think there's old Belgian "Congo Jazz" in it as well. We had quite a few Jazz bands here at the time.

I'd really like to find some more of this stuff, so if anyone knows what i am talking about, please enlighten me.  :)

Thanks for the tips and links Bigshot!

I'm listening to Rich Conaty's previous week's stream on WFUV now. That's indeed the music I'm talking about among other styles.

I do indeed remember some of thos old cartoons from when I was still very young. That and Laurel & Hardy and Charlie Chaplin. Too bad none of this stuff is on TV here anymore.

I did some searching and what I could make of it so far is that it all started in the late 1800s with Ragtime and then moved over Tin Pan Alley to the Toon Music. I'm not sure what the difference is between Hot Jazz and Sweet Jazz though.

From the 20s on this style seems to evolve into Dixie and then Charleston, Quickstep and Foxstrot. The best seems to be over by 1945.

Don't hesitate to correct my mnistakes, I'm just getting into this.

I just love the rythm and tempo of this music. I can listen to it as background music all day and then put my headphones on in the evening to have a serious listen.

So, after knowing a bit what to search for I listened to samples on iTunes and Spotify. From there I started to raid Amazon US and UK. I found some pretty exciting stuff I must say.

I got me 3 HD downloads with Dixie as well.

I also found 2 cd's from a DJ called "Jules Deelder" that a friend on a Belgian forum here will share with me.

Then someone on a second hand site here is selling 3 DVDs full of music that was recorded from shellacs as well, they're in MP3. For 15€ I couldn't pass up on those.

As for your offer to share some of the music you transferred yourself I'd gladly take you up on that.

If you want I can share those 2 CDs from DJ Blue Flamingo with you as well as those HD Dixie downloads.

Those Blue Flamingo CDs are virtually made of unobtanium now and they're really good.

I had to drive 500km back and forth to get one of them and at the same time met another guy at that store that had the second one and wanted to give it to me for free. He didn't have it with him but asked for my address and a week later I got it.  :)

EDIT: Her's a link to Blue Flamingo. I see he has a third CD out tomorrow. I'm going to look for it.

Indeed, I am mixing dance styles and music kinds up.

I wouldn't mind uploading some stuff and linking here as well, but I don't think I am allowed to do that since these are still recent CDs.

Still if you would like those Blue Flamingo CDs shoot me a PM because the first two CDs are nowhere to be found anyway.

One of the things I found on Amazon is this nice 500 CD box. I'm sure that will get me started. :) 

I bought it from the seller based in Germany at the much less expensive price of course. As far as I could find out he's selling at the original price the box was sold for. He has a few of the boxes listed on eBay as well, but at $399.

On HDTracks I found Kid Ory and Tiger Dixie Band.

I'm looking forward to hear your music. But with what I found to downloaded already I'm having a ball here! :)

Thanks for all the info. I'm really having a good time here with this music.  :)

I have been checking these artists out on Spotify. 

Indeed that's the Toons music I like next to some of the later forms and that was pretty well unknown to me before.

Here's a few examples of what I really liked, although some of these songs seem to be played by various bands:

Paul Whiteman's: Charleston, Happy Feet.

California Ramblers: No Foolin', Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue 

Scrappy Lambert: The Man from the South, My Melancholy Baby

Benson Orchestra of Chicago: Riverboat Shuffle

Ambrose and his Orchestra: B'wanga, Night Ride, Champagne Cocktail

I found a link to stream WFUV in 128k in iTunes instead of the standard 56k: http://wfuv-onair.streamguys.org:80/onair-hi

I also see he has links to CDs on Amazon after every show. They're more expensive than the compilations I found but maybe they will be well recorded?

I thought those boxes would at least have half decent quality, but well it will be nice to find some music and names that I can look into further.

And then I can check it out on Usenet. My provider used to have a free newsserver up until last year but now I have XSNews, along with Unison which is a rather easy to use Mac app to find stuff on usenet.

I read about your transfers in another thread. It must be a lot of work to EQ and record these albums like that.

Edit: I wonder what other music besides Dixie originated from this music.

His music started in the 30s I see. A big time composer from those years.

He's something else indeed, a big variation in music from what I have listened on Spotify but really amazing.

Pretty darn good, certainly worth sourcing some CDs from him.

Edit: Got me four of his CDs. Three are of his earlier toons music, the fourth as well bt played with strings. I didn't buy the later more experimental CDs though.

I get these are mono, but is there any way to get sound on both channels?

My amp doesn't have a mono button but maybe I should make a change in Amarra?

Indeed, iTunes standalone does.

Whenever I switch Amarra on it switches to one channel.

I'll check it this weekend, can't really find a setting right away.