Jazz gained popularity in 1920s.
Radio and phonograph records were becoming popular and able to provide music in the home setting.
Public dance halls, clubs, and tea rooms opened in the cities.
Popular Tin Pan Alley composers like Irving Berlin incorporated ragtime influence into their compositions, though they rarely used the specific musical devices that were second nature to jazz players—the rhythms, the blue notes.
Few things did more to popularize the idea of hot music than Berlin’s hit song of 1911,”Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” which became a craze as far from home as Vienna.
Popular Songs
Fascinating Rhythm
I’ll See You in My Dreams
Oh, Lady Be Good
The One I Love Belongs to Someone Else
Rose Marie
Tea for Two
When You and I Were Seventeen
It Ain’t Goona Rain No Mo’
California, Here I Come! By Al Jolson
Memory Lane
What’ll I do?
It Had to be You
Somebody Loves Me
Linger Awhile
Charleston
I’m Goin South
Steppin’Out
I love you
Sun-Kist Rose
Lazy
Little Butterfly
How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
Covered Wagon Days
Popular Performers:
Al Jolson
Ted Lewis & His Band
Marion Harris
Isham Jones & His Orchestra
John McCormick
Benny Krueger & His Orchestra
The Duncan Sisters
Eddie Cantor
Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra
Irene Bordoni
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