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THE ROARING 20'S - Volume 2
Enoch Light and the Charleston City All Stars
Grand Award G.A. 33-340, 1956
LP rip (128 kbps mono) by Dick Baker, October 2014
1. Collegiate
2. That Certain Party
3. Paddlin' Madeline Home
4. Swingin' Down the Lane
5. Show Me the Way to Go Home
6. Five Foot Two
7. Ain't She Sweet
8. Runnin' Wild
9. Sugar Blues
10. When My Baby Smiles at Me
11. Varsity Drag
12. I Can't Give You Anything but Love
What do the Roaring Twenties mean to you? Quickly scan the list below. For each item that you recognize, without more than five seconds thought, mark a check in the corresponding "Yes" column. For those you don't recognize in five seconds, check in the "No" column. Now, go ahead:
Autographed Slickers
The Charleston
The Reo Speed Wagan
"Banana Oil!"
"Beau Geste"
Super-Heterodynes
"Benny Sent Me!"
Mah Jong
"The Jazz Singer"
The Long Count
Plus Four
"Twenty-three Skiddo!"
The Tea Pot Dome
Boyish Bobs
The Hupmobile
Murderers' Row
"Drink Moxie!"
Dance Marathons
Flappers
The Cord Car
Judge (magazine)
Zev
Goldfish Eating Contests
Now, here's how you score: Multiply each "Yes" answer by four. If your total is between 90 and 100, you should buy this record immediately. If it's between 75 and 90 you should wait thirty seconds before making your purchase. If your toral is between 50 and 75, think it over for about a full minute and THEN go ahead and buy the record.
On the other hand, if your total is BELOW 50, then try to think of a friend who was really living it up during the Roaring Twenties, or, if you can't think of one who would enjoy recapturing the spirit of those times, then think of how much fun it would be for you, yourself, to capture that spirit for the first time. Then go ahead and buy the record!
As you can see, we're not prohibiting anyone, including those who get a simply terrible score on this test, from buying this record. As a matter of fact, we think this is an especially exciting long-playing disc which EVERYONE ought to have in his record collection. It's an authentic musical reincarnation of the songs and the spirit of those fabulous times after World War I when America was just beginning to unwind itself and having itself a really roaring good time.
In addition to the songs, the musical arrangements, as played by those happy-go-lucky gents who call themselves The Charleston City All Stars, are authentically twenty-ish, complete with the accents and the slurs and the slurps and the cymbal crashes that were so typical of the music of those times.
And just what were those times like? They were hectic and bouncy and buoyant. They were frantic and full of escapes. It was the era of prohibition and the speak-easy. It was the time when women were just beginning to find themselves and men were beginning to find what women were really like. Excitement and skirts and the zest for living were going sky-high. So was the stock market. Then, of course, in 1929--on October 29, 1929--the market collapsed and the Twenties roared no more!
But what an impression The Twenties had made! The items in the box are one way of remembering. But even more effective is the music contained herein, those sounds that mirror so accurately and, at times, so poignantly the high-flying spirit of the gloriously Roaring Twenties!
THE CHARLESTON CITY ALL STARS
"Raz-Ma-Tazz"
By David Stone
Selecting a career was a simple matter for David Stone. At the age of 5 he was already salvaging wrapping paper and pencil stubs with which to draw cowboys and indians. Early jobs on farms, lumber camps and driving trucks furnished experience of strong values and direct statement characteristic of the Northwest that was his home.
Inspiration to become an artist came from Andrew Vincent, Dave McCosh and Jack Wilkinson at the University of Oregon's line art school. They broadened his vision and gave him intellectual guidance in his search for meaningful art.
In 1946 after four years with the infantry, Stone returned to his education for a year with the Art Center at Los Angeles. Turning south he studied at the Universidad de Michoacan in Mexico and when he returned to the U.S. a year later he had some 250 oils, watercolors and sketches to wrangle through customs. He also brought back an intimate knowledge of much of Mexico's geography, a profound regard for the Mexican artist Orozoco, a deep tan and a mustache.
Shaving off the mustache, Stone plunged into New York's art world and set about learning how to put his education on a paying basis. His wife, Peggy, a fashion model whom he married in 1952, has appeared in many of his magazine and book illustrations and even helped apply paint to back drops for a variety show. He is a member of the Society of I1lustrators and has exhibited in Mexico, the West Coast and New York. He has lectured at colleges and business clubs and conducted art classes.
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