Howard Lanin and His Orch. - Black Bottom, 1926
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Howard Lanin was the third most prominent figure in the family of musicians (see my info for the clip with Sam Lanin's Orchestra). His brother Sam was a major bandleader and director of the 1920s and early '30s, responsible for the enormous number of recordings and broadcasts. Lester was also the famed dance-band leader from the 1930s through the 1990s.
Howard was born in Philadelphia in 1898 to an immigrant Russian Jewish family, whose members (including father and grandfather) were brimming over with musical ability. By 1909 he entered music professionally, as a drummer in the orchestra at the Crystal Palace movie theater. He organized his first dance band of his own at 17 and spent the next 72 years leading bands. He remained based in Philadelphia for most of his career - unlike Sam and Lester, who moved to New York City. He recorded with various groups of his own, including the Benjamin Franklin Hotel Orchestra - and played dances, shows, and conventions for decades. He died in 1991 at age 93.
Recording: Howard Lanin and His Orchestra, v. Frank Harris - Black Bottom, Victor 1926
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Well, I may be a Rocker but you have to respect this music. It's pure, it's real, valuable and it makes you feel happy. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time to take a peek...love it!
The Black Bottom, the most awesome cool and hip dance of the 1920s.....this video clip proves it !
Sam Lanin, Howard and Lester were all brothers and band leaders. Sam was one of most prolific of the 20s, followed by Howard. Sam recorded the "Charleston" in May of 1925 and it is absolutely WILD !!!
@michaelpreston233
4 жыл бұрын
They Recorded for the same Company ''Gennett''
this is real music!!
It is so nice to hear stories like this.cheers to you and Doris Eaton Travis.
A Pleasure - Thank You
You said it,Pal!Why can no one write music like this today?
I saw Doris Eaton Travis, the last surviving Zeigfield Girl, do this dance at the age of 99. She's 105 now, and she'll be back in NYC next week to do another dance from the '20s at the annual Broadway Cares benefit. She looks about 65!
Grew up with this record. A Classic!
Frank Harris was in this case a pseudonym for our old friend Irving Kaufman, who here limbers up the old cast iron lungs and performs a fine vocal refrain.
Thank you! In case you're wondering, Doris danced and sang "Ballin' the Jack"!
Haven't played that on the piano for a while. I'm headin' down stairs and do it!
Favoloso!
They call it black bottom, a new twister, Sure got 'em, oh sister! They clap their hands and do a raggedy trot, it's hot! Old fellows with lumbago, With high yellers, away they go! They jump right in and give it all that they've got! They say that when the river bottom covered with ooze, Start in to squirm, Couples dance, here's the movement they use, Just like a worm! Black bottom, A new rhythm, When you spot 'em, You go with 'em! And do that black black bottom all the day long! They say that when the river bottom covered with ooze, Start in to squirm, Couples dance, here's the movement they use, Just like a worm! Black bottom, A new rhythm, When you spot 'em, You go with 'em! And do that black black bottom all the day long, All day long, long, all day long!
you are correct :)
Judy Garland sings this in the lengthy show business montage in "A Star Is Born". I note one lyric change (to be less objectionable in the 1950s): Judy sings "Old fellows with lumbago, and young fellows, away they go..." Here, it's "Old fellows with lumbago, and high yellows, away they go..." "High yellows" were black women who had light complexions, to the point that they might be able to "pass for white", as the saying was in those days.
Great
The song references the black bottom of mud in the Swanee River and claims that Blacks have created a dance to imitate the shimmering ooze. While there are references deemed offensive today "high yellows" and such, Ma Rainey poked fun at this song and dance when she sang her own version "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom". She spun the race thing also, by referencing "Jew baby prances" in her version. And so it was, in the world of music in the 1920's! Rainey's version went: "Now I'm gonna show y'all my black bottom; They stay to see that dance Wait until you see me do my big black bottom; I'll put you in a trance"
I agree with you.The whole world is in crisis.Overpopulation and the rest.But this music continues to give us pleasure,does it not?
@MrCombat1965 - Hey there! It was sad that we lost Doris this year, but do you know that she performed at the Broadway Cares Easter Bonnet again this year, about a week before she died? She came out in a big Easter basket, lifted by two shirtless dancers, and did her high kicks. They dimmed the lights on Broadway a couple of nights after she died in tribute. Last year, I got to sit with her a bit, and she was hilarious! I'm curious as to the age of the Civil War widow who died in the last 5yrs
I still do not know how to do the Black bottom. Can you please upload more vids.
lester was the best!joatlantaga
This is a Columbia record (689-D). Not a Victor.
Needs visuals of dancers.
That busboy (ca. 2:00 minutes) is certainly versatile: first he gives charleston lessons and now black bottom. What's next? The mazurka?
was he related to Lester Lanin, dance bandleader in the l950s?
@stephanieperry89
9 жыл бұрын
Yes, Howard was Lester's older brother.
So what's wrong w/corn? I saw a snippet of it from a DVD on the 20s (via Netflix)& thought it quite marvelous. Lovely young ladies showing the spirit of the Jazz Age. Prefer that than over static stills.
Another example of the high standards of the era. I have a film clip of the band playing in bathing suits but its so corny I don't want to post it.
Was the young female dancer in the begining of the video Joan Crawford?
@sarabucci8164
7 жыл бұрын
Yep. :)
@alfredlewis6636
2 жыл бұрын
Sure was!