Favorites of the Roaring Twenties
(2-CD set) The 1920s was perhaps the most colorful and footloose decade in our country's history. This was a period of great social, moral and technological change. Women were first given the right to vote, prohibition ruled the land, radio and talking pictures came into being and aviation took a great step forward when Charles Lindbergh made a solo flight from New York to Paris.Music too was seeing dramatic changes at this time. An exiting new sound called Jazz was first recorded and its influence was quickly felt in both popular music and dance. Tin Pan Alley, the country's song factory, was cranking out one great hit after another thanks to prolific songwriters like Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Walter Donaldson to name a few. Sadly, the prosperity and exuberance that fueled this colorful decade would end with the stock market crash on October of 1929, the onset to the Great Depression.Provided here are 40 vintage favorites from this period with sample selections from each year. Collectively, they represent the sounds and flavor of that remarkable time. Several have become standards that transcended the 1920s, includingWho's Sorry Now?,It Had To Be You,Blue Skies,Singin' In The RainandAin't Misbehavin'.