Feeling nostalgic for pretty much anything pre-COVID, Meli is taking it back nearly a century to the music of the early 1920s (and maybe a little before). Enjoy a simpler time, post-Spanish flu, pre-Depression, when Prohibition was the thing worrying folks.
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Track List:
* “The Sheikh (of Araby)” – Ray Miller Orchestra
* “I’m Gonna Jazz My Way Straight Through Paradise” – Mary Stafford
* “The Dandy” – Sami Stern Orchestra
* “Come Josephine in my Flying Machine” – Ada Jones and Billy Murray
* “All Night Long” – Ada Jones and Billy Murray
* “The Alcoholic Blues” – Billy Murray
* “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home” – Bessie Smith
* “Back to the Carolina You Love” – Al Jolson
* “Some of these Days” – Sophie Tucker
* “Do You Ever Think of Me?” – Isham Jones Orchestra
* “Wabash Blues” – Isham Jones
* “All By Myself” – Aileen Stanley
* “April Showers” – Eddie Elkins Orchestra
* “Roarin'” – Eddie Elkins Orchestra
* Dardenella” – Harry Raderman’s Jazz Orchestra