Popular Records of 1917 (Part Two)

although not yet on the radio, what the public loved to listen to in the 1917, the year before the Spanish Flu. Thanks to the kind written permission of Archeophone of Champaign, IL for presenting the following wonderful clear original recordings from 103 years ago: Popular Records of 1917 (PART TWO) Popular Records of 1917 (PART TWO)
1 FOR ME AND MY GAL – VAN AND SCHENCK
2 OVER THERE – AMERICAN QUARTET
3 PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES IN YOUR OLD KIT BAG
(AND SMILE, SMILE, SMILE) – JAMES F. HARRISON
& KNICKERBOCKER QUARTET
4 OVER THERE - PEERLESS QUARTET
5 LILY OF THE VALLEY – COLLINS AND HARLAN
6 LIVERY STABLE BLUES –
ORIGINAL DIXIELAND “JAZZ” BAND
7 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? –
ARTHUR FIELDS & PEERLESS QUARTET
8 M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I – ADA JONES
9 KATINKA MEDLEY – VICTOR MILITARY BAND
10 I AINT GOT NOBODY MUCH – MARION HARRIS

more information on track 1…….
FOR ME AND MY GAL – VAN & SCHENCK
recorded 3-1-1917 Camden, NJ
Victor 18258 charted 5-26-17 (10 weeks) peaked @ # 1 POP (3 w)
flipside: DANCE & GROW THIN (recorded 3-1-2017)
printed on record: “Baritone and Tenor duet with orchestra”
ROSARIO BOURDON & HIS ORCHESTRA

lyrics by EDGAR LESLIE (1885-1976)
co-wrote (lyrics) AMONG MY SOUVENIRS (1927)
(# 1 POP hit for PAUL WHITEMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA {1928}
# 7 POP hit {1960} for - CONNIE FRANCIS {1959}
# 1 C&W hit for MARTY ROBBINS {1976})
lyrics by E.RAY GOETZ (1886-1954)
co-wrote (lyrics) YAAKA HULA HICKEY DULA
(HAWAIAAN LOVE SONG) (1916)
music by GEORGE W. MEYER (1884-1959)
co-wrote (music)
IF HE CAN FIGHT LIKE HE CAN LOVE, GOODBYE GERMANY (1918)
a # 3 POP HIT for THE FARBER SISTERS

selected other recordings of FOR ME AND MY GAL:
by PRINCE’S ORCHESTRA Columbia 5957 c 6-2-17 {3 w} p @ # 5 POP)
by HENRY BURR & ALBERT CAMPBELL Pathe 20163 c 7-21-17 {2 w} p @ # 7 POP)
by BILLY MURRAY Edison 50407 c 8-18-17 {1 w} @ # 9)
by JUDY GARLAND & GENE KELLY Decca 18480 c 1-24-42 {21 w} p @ # 3 POP)
by GUY LOMBARDO & HIS ROYAL CANADIANS Decca 4371 c 1-23-43 {1 w} @ # 17 POP)
by FREDDY CANNON Swan 4083 c 10-16-61 {6 w} p @ # 71 POP)

VAN = two man piano act
GUS VAN = AUGUST VAN GLAHN
born 8-12-1887 Ridgewood, Brooklyn (now Queens), NYC
died 3-12-1968 (age 80)
sang baritone (character singer)
JOE SCHENCK (“skenk”) – JOSEPH THUMA SCHENCK
born c. 1891 Ridgewood, Brooklyn (now Queens), NYC
died 6-28-1930 (age 38 or 39)
played piano & sang high tenor
(15 year old MAE WEST was his girlfriend)
They were vaudeville stars and made appearances in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921
charted POP 1917-24 / 28
three # 1 POP hits:
FOR ME AND MY GAL (1917)
AIN’T WE GOT FUN (1921
CAROLINA IN THE MORNING (1923)