"Dixie", Arthur Pryor's Band - Victor 16819-A (09/11/1907)

This week's theme: Southern Marches/Songs

You ain't just a whistlin' "Dixie" - but I bet you will be soon :-)

I used to have a theory that when it came to medley's of Civil War or 
Southern songs that if it was arranged by a by a northerner it would always 
end with "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" but if arranged by a southerner 
it would always end with "Dixie".

But now I'm not so sure.


Actually I'm not all that big on southern stuff, Great-Grand-Pappy Swezey 
was a Union soldier as was his brother, who was in Andersonville prison for 
a while and his brother-in-law who died from disease during the Vicksburg 
campaign.

The south has not been good to the Swezey family.

But I do like the music anyway.

The south will rise again ... and fall again ...


Prior to 1925 all recordings were made "acoustically" / "mechanically" with 
no electronics at all - which wasn't very good to say the least.

Band music had enough "horsepower" to overcome the primitive recording 
equipment and so was quite popular in the early days of phonograph 
recording.

John Phillip Sousa, Arthur Willard Pryor, Edwin Franko Goldman, Patrick 
Sarsfield Gilmore and Patrick ("Patsy") Conway were all prominent band 
leaders at the turn of the century and cranked out hundreds of records.


Arthur Pryor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Pryor


Southern Hospitality by Arthur Pryor (1899, Ragtime piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba-YfYMdedA

Razzazza Mazzazza by Arthur Pryor (1906, Ragtime piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kk3j-OY1FA

Frozen Bill Rag by Arthur Pryor (1909, Ragtime piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QT34aVFSh8


Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, 1829-1892: Father of the American Concert Band
http://www.bc.edu/libraries/about/exhibits/burns/gilmore.html

Patrick Gilmore
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Gilmore



Stay Jazzed!
--Tom Swezey
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