My last post had been meant for my "Fake Hits" channel, but luckily the two numbers came from 78s, so the post worked out... First up, from 1903, banjo virtuoso Vess L. Ossman plays "Down South" (as "Way Down South"), a 1901 piece by British composer William H. Myddleton, whose real name was Arnold Safroni-Middleton. It was also recorded in 1927 by the Eveready Hour Group, as led by Nat Shilkret ("The Eveready Hour" was a popular radio show of the 1920s). "Some One Step" was written by one Arthur Burgh, and it's played (very nicely) by Patrick Conway's Band on a 1919 lateral Okeh 78. And I can't believe I'm getting a copyright notice for the 1919 Conway 78, as it's pre-1923, and by four years. Weird.
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2025-08-28
Way Down South/Some One Step--Vess Ossman, Conway's Band, 1903, 1919
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