The Yearly GELT's TOP 1930

Mary Astor & Ann Harding in Edward H. Griffith's movie "Holiday" (1930)

Artists of the yearThe Boswell Sisters


Raised in New Orleans, Connee, Martha and Vet Boswell started in 1925 performing in the theaters of the city. Logically influenced by local jazz, they first formed an instrumental trio before gradually moving toward a vocal group. Bright and innovative, they gave new colors to popular song by pushing boundaries of close harmony. They adapted 
current hits in their way, mixing their knowledge of syncopated music and changes in tempo with an ability to go back and forth from major to minor mode. Although they started recording for Victor Records, it is only after performing in 1930 in New York and first radio broadcasts that they proved popular.

Song of the year : Mood Indigo
Duke Ellington explores in a personal way the possibilities of 3 front instruments that are trumpet, clarinet and trombone by creating an effect soon called the "mike tune" giving the illusion of a fourth one.
Vocalist Ivie Anderson performed the song, bringing to it, despite time, a still alive singulariry.

 RK
 Artist
 Title
 CT
VIDEO 
 1 
 Frankie Trumbauer & His  Orchestra
 By Bye Blues feat. Scrappy  Lambert
 (Fred Hamm/Dave Bennett/Bert  Lown/Chauncey Gray)

 2 
 Duke Ellington
 Mood Indigo feat. Ivie Anderson
 (Duke Ellington/Barney  Bigard/Irving Mills)
 
 Cab Calloway
 St James Infirmary
 (Traditional)
 4
 Gus Arnheim & His  Cocoanut Grove  Orchestra
 Fool Me Some More feat.  Bing Crosby
 (Haven Gillespie/Peter DeRose)
 5
 The McKinney Cotton  Pickers
 Words Can't Express The  Way I Feel
 (George Thomas)
 
 Hoagy Carmichael
 Georgia On My Mind
 (Hoagy Carmichael)
 7
 Lee Morse
 Tain't No Sin (To Dance  Around In Your Bones)
 (Edgar Leslie)
 
 Bert Lown & His Biltmore  Hotel  Music
 Blue Is The Night
 (Fred Fisher)
 9
 Luis Russell
 Poor Lil' Me
 (Paul Barbarin)
 10
 Leo Reisman
 Puttin' The Ritz feat. Lew  Conrad
 (Harry Richman/Irving Berlin)
 11
 Ethel Waters
 What Did I Do To Be So  Black And Blue
 (Andy Razaf/Fats Waller/Harry  Brooks)
 12 
 Louis Armstrong
 Body And Soul
 (Johnny Green/Edward  Heyman/Robert Sour/Frank Eyton)
 13 
 Ted Weems
 The Man From The  South feat. Arthur Jarrett
 (Rube Bloom/Harry Woods)
 14 
 The Boswell Sisters
 Gee, But I'd Like To Make  You Happy
 (Larry Shay/Ward/Montgomery)
 15 
 Isham Jones
 My Baby Just Cares For  Me feat. Eddie Stone
 (Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn)
 16
 Helen Kane
 I Owe You
 (Don Hartmann/Al Goodhart)
 17 
 Paul Whiteman
 Song Of The Dawn feat.  Bing Crosby
 (Jack Yellen/Milton Ager)
 18 
 Bert Lown & His Biltmore  Hotel  Music
 Under A Texas Moon
 (Ray Perkins)
 19 
 Red Nichols & His Five  Pennies
 Corrine, Corrina feat.  Wingy Manone
 (Bo Carter)
 20 
 Earl Burtnett & His Los  Angeles Biltmore Orchestra
'leven Thirty Saturday  Night feat. Jack Smith
 (Earl Burtnett)
 21 
 Jack Teagarden
 Love Me
 (Ned Washington/Victor Young)
 22 
 Annette Hanshaw
 Little White Lies
 (Walter Donaldson)
 23
 Joe Venuti & His Orchestra
 Wasting My Love On  You feat. Frank Luther
 (Harry Warren/Edgar Leslie)
 24
 Cab Calloway
 Happy Feet
 (Milton Ager/Jack Yellen)
 25 
 Paul Whiteman
 Without A Song feat. Bing  Crosby
 (William Rose/Edward  Eliscu/Vincent Youmans)
 26 
 Ruth Etting
 Just A Little Closer
 (Johnson)
 27 
 Duke Ellington & Irving  Mills
 That Lindy Hop
 (Andy Razaf/Eubie Blake)
 28
 Libby Holman
 Body And Soul
 (Johnny Green/Edward  Heyman/Robert Sour/Frank Eyton
 29
 Ben Selvin & His  Knickerbockers
 Cheerful Little Earful feat.  Helen Rowland
 (Harry Warren/Ira Geshwin/Billy  Rose)
 30
 Jackie Taylor & His  Orchestra
 That's what I Like About  You feat. The Boswell Sisters
 (Walter Donaldson)
 31
 Rudy Vallee & His  Connecticut  Yankees
 If I Had A Girl Like You
 (Louis McDermott)
 32 
 Duke Ellington's Band &  The  Rhythm Boys
 Three Little Words
 (Bert Kalmar/Harry Ruby)
 33
 Louis Armstrong & His  Savoy  Ballroom Five
 I Can't Give You Anything  But Love
 (Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields)
 34 
 Isham Jones & His  Orchestra
 Trees feat. Eddie Stone
 (Joyce Kilmer/Oscar Rasbach)
 35 
 Henry Thies & His Hotel  Sinton  Orchestra
 June Kisses feat. Jane  Froman
 36 
 Gus Arnheim & His  Orchestra
 It Must Be True feat. Bing  Crosby
 (Gus Arnheim.Harry Barris/Gordon Clifford)
 37 
  Ruth Etting
 Ten Cents A Dance
 (Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers)
 38 
 The California Ramblers
 Dream Girl feat. Wally  Edwards
 (Ed Kirkeby/Lew Cobey)
 39
 Rudy Vallee & His  Connecticut  Yankees
 Confessin' (That I Love  You)
 (E.J. Neiburg/Ellis Reynolds)
 40
 Ethel Waters
 I Got Rhythm
 (George & Ira Gershwin)

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