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Yerkes Jazarimba Orch. - How'ya Gonna Keep'em Down On the Farm, 1919

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How’ya Gonna Keep’em Down On the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?) Medley One-Step (W.Donaldson) – Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra, Vocal Chorus by Billy Murray, Columbia 1919 (USA)

NOTE: The participating in Great European War of 1914-18 was a deep and shocking spiritual experience for lots of American boys, especially for those, who got into the hell straight from their Mid Western paradise farms and peaceful villages. Yet for those, who were lucky to have survived, some other and much nicer experience was offered soon after that - the victory parade and the hot welcoming by the liberated people of the European cities, including Paris - with outstretched arms of the legion of most beautiful and most dreamed of, Parisian “Maries”. Many a songs of the era refer to that, including the most famous Walter Donaldson’s “How’ya Gonna Keep’em Down On the Farm /After They’ve Seen Paree?”

The slideshow in this movie presents a series of covers of American hits inspired by the Great War. The song is performed by the Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra, which was a popular 8-piece dance band in New York, that featured two well-known marimba and vibraphone virtuoses of the time: brothers George and Joe Green (who later, established their own dance orchestra) as well as the world-famous saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft.  See also another rendition of that song, recorded by American singer Arthur Fields  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYflT3h6lCQ

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