My grandpa got me started on this kind of music. He was a WW 1 Vet, and he was in France in 1917-18. He was also big on the American artists like Armstrong, King Oliver, Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Gershwin, Fletcher Henderson, and lots of others. I would go to his house and hang out with him, and he'd put on music like this, we'd play gin rummy, and he would tell me stories about WW1, Chicago during prohibition, the dust bowl days in Indiana during the 30s, and too much to mention here. He also showed me how to take the little clip off of one of the tubes in an old radio and feed audio into it from another source. Today, I have a cathedral style radio from 1927, and I can hook blue tooth to it and hear this music through a period correct radio. Thanks, Grandpa!

Robert is a brilliant music presenter/DJ. He should have had an entire series of these shows, similar to Dylan's excellent Theme Time Radio Hour. If you find yourself in the mood for a time machine trip, I highly recommend listening to all of these Sweet Shellac shows. Fantastic!

@TheTrippersMindTrip

Жыл бұрын

Even better if you take half a cube of LSD first, and then begin with his sweet shellac, listen to all those programs, and then move on to his album with Jerry Zolten: "Chimpin' The Blues", and finally on to His Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country.

I used to spend summers aT my grandmothers way up in the gold mining country...she was a retired store keeper and had lots of old records and a broken Victrola...had to spin the records with your finger...I gradually got into this music...barely had phone service where she lived...lots of jewish comics from vaudeville days.

I love r crumb. Robert you are an inspiration. I cant count the number of beautiful things you have made me aware of over the years. thank you thank you.

@TheTrippersMindTrip

Жыл бұрын

I feel the exact same way

Robert Crumb never fails to surprise and delight me.

Absolutely captivating, it's like having R Crumb DJ for me.

In the 1950s my brother and i called such 'mouse music' because it was used as soundtrack for cartoons from the 20s and 30s.

@weeksey49

2 жыл бұрын

in the old bouncy black ink cartoons

Mshrms: Thanks. The people that save the music of the streets of the last century are holding the keys of the pop music past. Thanks Mr. Crumb. We're losing the only station to play this era in my city. Very sad. Nice to find a source of music with the energy and crazy vitality that characterized the 20.s and 30's.

Important early French jazzz music!! Crumb knew! Dang, would love an hour with this guy!

Wonderful! The pronunciation alone is worth the price of admission.

I love it Robert, excellent music.I love the music of the 20s and 30s

These are treasures - just found out about them. Thank you Robert!

Both an artistic and a musical idol of mine...

thanks for this! its awesome!

R Crumb unearths delightful music that would otherwise be lost to time. I think of some great music that I’ve heard on tapes over the years that never made it to CDs and is probably gone with the death of its creator unless some genius like Crumb comes across an old tape and preserves it. Some music is worth dying. But who is to decide what?

@stevengill1736

Жыл бұрын

Tapes? These are the original records, aren't they? But whatever medium, it is so great they were preserved! When i was a kid my folks still had a collection of 78s in the basement. My friends and I found a wind-up portable 78 player at the neighborhood church run second hand store ( this was in the mid 60's, and you could still find the simple steel needles required by wind-up 78 players in the 5 and dime!). We scrounged up the couple bucks they wanted for it, took it home and tried it - it worked perfectly! We would look through my folk's 78s and pick out numbers at random - Frankie Carle and his Boys playing Margie....and a boogie woogie record in Japanese my dad picked up somewhere in the Far East during the war...it was great! Wow, I hadn't thought about that episode in years....thanks Robert. Sometimes on warm summer evenings, the gang would set up the player on the corner, put on a record and dance madly some funny steps seen in some old movie...cars driving by would slow, then laughter was heard and they'd drive on....

Wonderful. Thanks!

What a treasure! Thanks for sharing

Flakey Foont is shading cross-hatches in my brain.

Thank you, Robert

Crumb us a most wonderful enigma, born at the right time in the good ol' USA -- a statement only he and a few others like him might fully appreciate.

Wow! What an interesting commentary by R Crumb. Edit: Always have been a fan but this raises my respect to a whole new level. Amazing!

Very cool. TY. 🌈🍀😎

Fats Waller did the definitive version of this tune, but this early french version is awesome, thanks for posting

@FenceThis

3 жыл бұрын

This tune ?

Jazz, musette, tango and a Brazilian form whose name I'm blanking on. Music of the downtrodden and despised which found a place on records and radio. Music can break barriers!

@MajorSecord

5 ай бұрын

Choro, or the Brazilian diminutive, chorino, might be the musical style.

Thanks

When I was a kid, there were stacks of 78s put out for the taking, nobody wanted them. I'm glad that people are cleaning them up and reissuing the better stuff on CDs. But as far as listening to the original recordings on original equipment goes, think I'll leave that to the enthusiasts.

@sclogse1

3 жыл бұрын

The trick is to find a decent 78' crank player, with a quality transducer on it. Columbia had them. No buzzing, no distortion. What you get, is the feeling that the music is being thrown at you. A thrilling thing, compared to later electric players.

crumb, if he werent one of the best graphic artist of all time, he should be mentioned as the john peel of the old music before approx 1950

Fabulous

Had heard a song called "My Girl's Pussy" on boardwalk empire , now I fine Mr. Crumb playing it ..why am I not surprised. LOL Heres looking at your work Robert.

@colinb8669

7 жыл бұрын

Ah yes the music was great on that TV show.

@vilstef6988

Жыл бұрын

My Girl's Pussy was actually released on 78 in 1978. The backing tune was called Wisconsin Wiggles.

@FeatnikSF

Жыл бұрын

Wisconsin Wiggles was the flip side of River Blues, released in 1972 on the Ordinary label.

@timothydigiuseppe1753

4 ай бұрын

@@vilstef6988 The flip side of *My Girl's Pussy* is *Christopher Columbus* with vocal credited to Leila Jane Dornacker (Jane Carroll Dornacker) accompanied by The Cheap Suit Serenaders (The Cheap Suit Serenaders Party Record, Red Goose Records BG-2026. Released 1978). See @FeatnikSF reply.

This musette/accordion take on jazz is quite interesting!

Hear that 4/4 time. Banjo playing a different chord each beat. Work.

Wal Berg's jazziest record I ever heard, nice solos and great feel (great sax arrangement, is the violin Sylvio Schmidt??) The Chicago Syncopaters were fantastic - Warlop was one of France greatest soloists on violin (I prefer over Grapelly). Trying for the trumpet on the Musette record, he sounds familiar. Obviously the best record was the last one - the Carribean musicians who make up Notte Creole Orchestra features the remarkable trumpet of Guadalupean Abel Beaurgard - who learned jazz from Sidney Bechet circa 1925-6; of course Salnave, Beaurgard etc were adept in biguine and Rumba as well as this terrific example of hot jazz. Someday hanging w Robert Crumb would be fantastic Merci bien

20s jazz is often weird even in america!

band at 10:02 sounds circa Bix...Do i hear Bix wafting through the airways?

He had a show of all shellac records? How cool is that? Is there more?

If Crumb didn't exist, we'd have to invent him...

I really like R. Crumb and find him most interesting. I'd absolutely love to hang out with him and just sit and listen. However, if we ever met in real life, I'm afraid he'd hate me. I'm attractive, a nice blue eyed and dark hair handsome dude. I can't help it, it doesn't go to my head and I've never figured out how to use it for advantage. People that don't know me wouldn't believe that though and would say, I hate that show off:) LMAO! Damn! Real life and judgements always get in the damn way:)

@giovanna722

2 жыл бұрын

Well, it's good that it isn't your friends that are calling you that. And, by the way, your good looks open doors for you that you probably take for granted, so be grateful for them!

Forgot I had watched this some years ago... I wonder what the earliest French jazz recordings were like: certainly they were familiar with ragtime years before WWI. Could jazz recordings have come over with the American troops during the war? I know Jim Europe and his 'Hellfighters' Band were popular there: could other Black musicians have given France its first taste of jazz? I would like to hear what was going on in the acoustic era.

Djazz before Django!?

#6

Sweet shellac, with no shinola.

Slide guitar solo?

@vilstef6988

Жыл бұрын

That was the Hawaiian guitar Robert mentioned.

5:13 "A jazz" - "un jazz", or even "un jâze". To a certain generation of French people this simply meant a drum kit - "une batterie" as they say nowadays - and by extension any combo with a drum kit in its line up. This might explain why village musicians playing for folk dancing might have been called a jazz band.

''C'est comme ca'' (That's how it is) ? Wal-Berg real name Voldemar Rosenberg

11:20

Django Reinhard was Belgian Robert, but I suppose he indeed put France on the map, as far as jazz is concerned, nevertheless

@turnipsociety706

Жыл бұрын

His parents were domiciled in Paris though and most of his career was in France; Quintette du Hot Club de France and such. Died in France.

Meatballs

Just think, in the 20's and 30's, Russia was in the avant garde. Look at the posters, the theater.

95 years old and way better than the noise they make now.

Maynard Fergusson, Bill Chase and Don Ellis--that is screechy jazz for real men. Crumb is a real man. What is wrong with him? Hey, this twenties stuff is cute Sachmo kind of jazz. It's okay. Not bad.

I love Robert Crumb down to his dirty drawes, so I want to like everything he likes, but I'm having a hard time getting into this kind of music. I'm going to keep trying though just to educate myself about music, so that I can develop an appreciation for it and be able to discuss it knowledgeably with Robert Crumb. I think I can acquire a taste and appreciation for it eventually. The instruments just don't appeal to me though, and it sounds too much like dixieland music which I can't stand

@sclogse1

3 жыл бұрын

It's transmitted better in person. Then it's life comes across. The real out of the body (into the horn)

That first song certainly had a lot goin on. Busy sounding. So many instruments. I could swear I heard someone playing the saw. Could that be? Does anyone know? Also, none of it really sounds all THAT amateurish to me. Some of it is less accomplished but they sound to me like they knew what they were doing. When you find something that's truly amateurish, that's something special. If only for the novelty. Say what you will about The Shags but it's TRULY unique music. You can't say that about many. Your favorite alt rock band might be unique in their own way but it's not truly unique in every sense.

"If you want to know a mind of a serial rapist sexual predator , watch Crumb" -- Jordan Peterson