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Tracklist
	1.	Do It Again!	Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra	1922
	2.	My Man (Mon Homme)	Fanny Brice	1921
	3.	April Showers	Al Jolson	1921
	4.	I Love Her-She Loves Me (I'm Her He-She's My She)	Eddie Cantor	1922
	5.	Ma	Isham Jones Orchestra	1921
	6.	Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean	Billy Jones and Ernest Hare	1922
	7.	The Sheik	Club Royal Orchestra	1921
	8.	When Francis Dances with Me	Ada Jones and Billy Murray	1921
	9.	Sweet Indiana Home	Marion Harris with Isham Jones Orchestra	1922
	10.	Weep No More (My Mammy)	Vernon Dalhart	1921
	11.	On the Alamo	Isham Jones Orchestra	1922
	12.	Song of Love	Lucy Isabelle Marsh and Royal Dadmun	1922
	13.	My Sunny Tennessee	Peerless Quartet	1921
	14.	Angel Child	Al Jolson	1922
	15.	Stumbling	Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra	1922
	16.	Lovin' Sam (The Sheik of Alabam')	Isabelle Patricola with The Virginians	1922
	17.	Second Hand Rose	Fanny Brice	1921
	18.	In the Little Red School House	Billy Jones and Ernest Hare	1922
	19.	My Buddy	Henry Burr	1922
	20.	Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean--"Positively, Mr. Gallagher"	Ed Gallagher and Al Shean	1922
	21.	Hot Lips (He's Got Hot Lips When He Plays Jazz)	Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra	1922
	22.	I'm Just Wild About Harry	Vaughn De Leath	1922
	23.	Mandy 'N' Me	American Quartet	1921
	24.	Three O'Clock in the Morning	Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra	1922

Radio was the biggest story of 1922 in America, as hundreds of stations popped up all over the country. A new era of mass communication was born, connecting big city and rural town over hundreds of miles. At the same time, the Jazz Age was getting underway. The songs of 1922 hint at what was to come and look back with a bittersweet nostalgia at the past of popular music.

A look forward

Some of the biggest stars of the 1920s, on stage and radio, are heard on this CD. Fanny Brice, a Ziegfeld mainstay for a decade, reached new heights with her trademark double-sided smash, "Second-Hand Rose" and "My Man." Vaughn De Leath, "the original radio girl," scored a hit with the Blake and Sissle vehicle from Shuffle Along, "I'm Just Wild about Harry." Meanwhile, Isabelle Patricola, accompanied by the very hot Ross Gorman-led Virginians, stands out with "Lovin' Sam (The Sheik of Alabam')." All things concerning "The Sheik" were the craze of 1922; Rudolph Valentino played the part in the hit film of the same name, the song "The Sheik (of Araby)" was a hit for the Club Royal Orchestra, and other songs, including Eddie Cantor's "I Love Her--She Loves Me" allude to "the sheik."

A look to the past

Like "Swanee" (from 1920), "My Sunny Tennessee" yearns for the yesterday of Southern skies and rolling hills, performed here by the Peerless Quartet, a recording industry staple of nearly two decades. Billy Jones and Ernest Hare, soon to be known on radio as The Happiness Boys, scored big with an early offering, the nostalgic "In the Little Red School House." "When Francis Dances with Me" was a comeback hit surprise for the team of Jones and Murray, who had recorded together infrequently in the late 1910s. "Frances" would be Ada Jones' last record with Billy for Victor, as she died while on tour in May 1922.

Dance bands take center stage

Paul Whiteman's band continued its supremacy in national sales, as dance songs such as "Do It Again!" and "Stumbling" reigned supreme in 1922. Trumpeter Henry Busse steps out on "Hot Lips," which he penned as a follow-up to his huge hit "The Wang-Wang Blues," also for Whiteman. "Three O'Clock in the Morning"--a waltz, unusual for Whiteman--would be one of the biggest hits of the entire acoustic era. Isham Jones showed why his outfit was the biggest Chicago band on his first self-composed hit, "On the Alamo."

Stage stars translate hit shows into hit records

The *phenom* of 1922 was "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean," featured in Ziegfeld's Follies of 1922 and performed in hit recordings by a number of artists, including two very different versions included here. One is by the originators, Ed Gallagher and Al Shean, and the second is by Jones and Hare, who recorded it for both Brunswick and Okeh. As in previous years, Al Jolson continued his unbroken streak of popularity with the smash hit "April Showers," from Bombo, and "Angel Child."

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