Roaring 20s: Ted Lewis & His Band - Madeline, 1924
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Channel: 240252 · 2013 · Music
Ted Lewis & His Orchestra - Madeline, Columbia 1924 (USA) NOTE: Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis (1890 -- 1971) American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and clarinetist. He led a band presenting a combination of jazz, comedy, and schmaltzy sentimentality that was a hit with the American public. He was known by the moniker "Mr. Entertainment" or Ted "Is Everybody Happy?" Lewis. I avoid most of the vocal performances of Mr. Entertainment - a melodramatic seriousness in his pseudo-singing is today absolutely unbearable. However, from the purely musical point of view, most of his instrumental arrangements were superb. Also, excellent are the rare Ted Lewis Band's recordings which were solely instrumental - without their leader presenting himself as a "singer". To such rarities belongs "Madeline" - which is a shining instriumental gem from early days of the "charleston era" in USA.
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