 | Ted Lewis & His Band - Angry Lewis' career started as a clarinetist in Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band in 1917, but he soon became the star of the group and went solo in 1919, taking most of the musicians from Fuller's band with him. He hired many outstanding jazz musicians: George Brunies, Muggsy Spanier, Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden and Jimmy Dorsey. Although during the Depression he became more of a pop vocalist, Jazz losing its prominency in his style, he was a true jazz pioneer. This great tune was recorded for Columbia on June 22th, 1925. |
 | She's Funny That Way Keswick 5/4/07 |
 | Ted Martel & his orch. - She's Funny That Way Harmony 801-H recorded 12/4/1928 vocal by Tom Frawley (aka Irving Kaufman) |
 | Jazzy scene with Ted Lewis and his Orchestra 1929 Ted Lewis and his Orchestra perform "Jazz Pirates" and "Lady Luck" with Noah Beery. From 1929. |
 | Ted Lewis Band - Away Down South in Heaven 1927 A classic with vocal by Ted Lewis |
 | Ted Lewis' Band -I'm All Dressed Up With A Broken Heart,1931 I'm All Dressed Up With A Broken Heart (Fisher/Unger /Stern) - Ted Lewis & His Band, (v. Ted Lewis & trio) Columbia 1931 __________________________________ From Wikipedia: Ted LEWIS (Theodore Leopold Friedman, 1890 -- 1971) was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He led a band presenting a combination of jazz, hokey comedy, and schmaltzy sentimentality that was a hit with the American public. He was known by the moniker "Mr. Entertainment". Born in Circleville, Ohio, Lewis was one of the first Northern musicians to start imitating the New Orleans jazz musicians who came up to New York in the teens. He first recorded in 1917 with Earl Fuller's Jass Band, who were making an energetic if somewhat clumsy attempt to copy the sound of the city's newest sensation, the Original Dixieland Jass Band. At the time, Lewis didn't seem to be able to do much on the clarinet other than trill. He improved a bit later, forming his style from the influences of the first New Orleans clarinetists to reside in New York, Larry Shields, Alcide Nunez, and Achille Baquet. By 1919 Lewis was leading his own band, and had a recording contract with Columbia Records, which marketed him as their answer to the Original Dixieland Jass Band who recorded for Victor records. At the start of the 1920s he was considered by many people without previous knowledge of jazz (that is to say, most of America) to be one of the leading lights of hot jazz. Lewis's clarinet playing never evolved beyond his style of 1919 which in later years would sound increasingly corny, but Lewis certainly knew what good clarinet playing sounded like, for he hired musicians like Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, and the wonderful Don Murray to play clarinet in his band. For years his band also included jazz greats Muggsy Spanier on trumpet and George Brunis on trombone. Ted Lewis's band was second only to the Paul Whiteman in popularity during the 1920s, and arguably played more real jazz with less pretension than Whiteman, especially in his recordings of the late 1920s. Lewis's band got schmaltzier as the Great Depression wore on, and Lewis adopted a battered top hat for sentimental, hard-luck tunes (he called himself "the high-hatted tragedian of song"). But this seemed to match the general public's taste, as he kept commercially successful during an era when many bands broke up. Through it all he retained his famous catchphrase, "Is everybody happy?" Frequently he would stray from song lyrics, improvising chatter around them. This gave the effect of Lewis "speaking" the song: "When ma' baby... when ma' baby smiles at me... gee, what a wonderful, wonderful light that comes to her eyes... look at that light, folks..." This freelance attitude to the tunes' music line and the text pushes him out -- in opinion of many historians of jazz -- of the serious debate of the era... |
 | Ruth Etting - I'm Funny That Way Ruth Etting singing I'm (He's/She's) Funny That Way. |
 | Ted Lewis - One More Time 1931 Columbia 2452-D Ted's band did some really hot numbers with Muggsy Spanier around 1930-this is one of my favourites.From CD197 at http://mcproductions.shawbiz.ca |
 | Shes Funny That Way jazz guitar lesson fingerstyle solo Shes Funny That Way jazz guitar lesson. Jazz standards arranged for fingerstyle solo chord melody guitar presented in onscreen animated fretboard format. Get this FREE software (with TAB display, SLOW down and STEP through features) and many other more tunes at www.LickByNeck.com. |
 | Ted Lewis - Ruth Etting - Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs 1927 An unusual thing-Ruthie with Ted - quite charming |
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