1920s · Skopia

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1924

The famous clarinet wail at the start was a joke the player improvised in rehearsal, and Gershwin told him to keep it in.

★ 6.8

1924

Smith recorded most of these by singing into a horn, before microphones existed, and still filled the room without any amplification at all.

★ 3.9

1928

Hurt cut these, sold almost nothing, and went back to farming. A folklorist found him thirty-five years later using a lyric as an address.

★ 2.4