List of top 30 shellac records from the Original Dixieland Jass Band

Notes on using the list

This list contains the title and composer (s) of the pieces, date of recording, date of entry into the charts, highest position and length of stay in the charts. The presetting takes place according to the entry date in the charts. It can also be sorted by title, label, dates, chart position and weeks.

The list of top 30 shellac records by the Original Dixieland Jass Band includes all pieces by the orchestra that reached the US charts from June 1917 ( Livery Stable Blues ) to April 1923 ( Some of These Days ). For his book Pop Memories 1890-1954, the music historian Joel Whitburn evaluated various hit parades in parallel, including sales for sheet music, radio broadcasts, official record labels' sales lists and charts from the industry journal Variety .

Title, composer (s)	Label	Date of recording	Chart entry	Highest position	Weeks	Remarks
Livery Stable Blues ( Nick LaRocca - Lee Lopez - Alcide Nunez )	Victor Records	February 26, 1917	June 2, 1917	4th	4th	The first hit of the ODJB, which opened the series of their 14 chart successes. “This recording - and not the tracks previously recorded by the ODJB for the Columbia company - should change the world of music (...). What is certain is that their novel presentation of the ' Music from New Orleans ', the melody and the line-up, exemplified what came after them in this genre. "
Darktown Strutter's Ball (Brooks)	Columbia	January 30, 1917	October 13, 1917	2 (1)	7th	Darktown Strutter's Ball became a standard of jazz like Livery Stable Blues and was also popular in a version by singer Sophie Tucker .
(Back Home) in Indiana (MacDonald - Hanley)	Columbia	January 30, 1917	October 20, 1917	8th	2	(Back Home) in Indiana was a popular daily hit in 1917 and later became a well-known jazz standard , including a. in the repertoire of Louis Armstrong , Red Nichols and Lester Young . The piece was on the B-side of Darktown Strutter's Ball .
At the Jazz Band Ball ( Edwards - LaRocca - Spargo - Shields)	Victor	March 18, 1918	July 13, 1918	8th	1	At the Jazz Band Ball became a popular jazz track; Bix Beiderbecke also made it into the charts with a version.
Tiger Rag (De Costa - Edwards - LaRocca - Spargo - Shields)	Victor	March 25, 1918	August 17, 1918	1 (2)	11	The ODJB's first number 1 hit was Tiger Rag , which has since become one of the most played and recorded jazz pieces. The composition on which u. a. and Jelly Roll Morton claimed authorship, were by Nick LaRocca three songs with their chords based, namely La Paloma , London Bridge and National Emblem March by Sousa .
Palesteena ( Conrad - Robinson )	Victor	4th December 1920	March 5, 1921	3	5	Together with the following compositions Singin 'the Blues and Margie it appeared on a Victor- 78er . Lena from Palesteena or Palesteena was a daily hit brought in by the band's new pianist as a co-author of the song. The song was also popularized by the singer Eddie Cantor ; The then well-known entertainer Frank Crumit also made it into the national charts.
Margie (Intro: Singin 'the Blues) (Davis - Conrad - Robinson)	Victor	December 1, 1920	March 26, 1921	9	1	The pianist J. Russel Robinson, one of the authors, also brought in these two pieces. Singin 'the Blues was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1977 as Frankie Trumbauer's version (with Bix Beiderbecke , 1927) . The following year, Margie was a hit in the Broadway review The Midnight Rounders of 1921 . Further successes in jazz had with the piece Claude Hopkins (1934) and Don Redman (1939).
Sweet Mama (Papa's Gettin 'Mad) (Rose - Little - Frost)	Victor	December 30, 1920	March 26, 1921	12	1	After Broadway singer Marion Harris' success with Sweet Mama , the song hit the charts a second time with the ODJB. Other recordings - for example with the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1928, 1930) or Joe Marsala (1942) were only moderately successful.
Home Again Blues (Akst - Berlin )	Victor	January 28, 1921	April 2, 1921	2 (1)	6th	The Home Again Blues referred to the return of American soldiers from the First World War; the success of this recording led many jazz musicians to record the song, the last that Irving Berlin wrote with a partner.
St. Louis Blues (cell phone)	Victor	May 25, 1921	August 27, 1921	3	6th	WC Handys St. Louis Blues entered the national charts a third time in 1921 in the version of the ODJB; this time with the vaudeville singer Al Bernard (1889-1949), who had already interpreted the song in 1919 under his own name. A total of 22 times the St. Louis Blues was listed in the US hit parades between 1914 and 1953.
Jazz Me Blues ( Delaney )	Victor	April 1921	September 17, 1921	9	1	Bix Beiderbecke also recorded Jazz Me Blues in 1927, but only the ODJB version initially reached the charts; the guitarist Les Paul only succeeded in doing this again in 1951 .
Royal Garden Blues ( Williams - Williams )	Victor	May 25, 1921	November 19, 1921	3	5	The later jazz standard Royal Garden Blues only entered the charts twice, although the piece was recorded thirty times by various bands up to 1942, but rarely with vocals, as here in the ODJB version with Al Bernard.
Bow Wow Blues (My Mama Treats Me Like a Dog) (Friend - Osborne)	Victor	December 1, 1921	February 25, 1922	9	1	The Bow Wow Blues was the 13th hit and her second to last. In addition to the ODJB, the California Ramblers and the Plantation Dance / Jazz Orchestra - also with Bennie Krueger - recorded him .
Some of These Days (Brooks)	Okeh Records	January 3, 1922	April 25, 1923	5	3	The composition Some of These Days became the signature tune of the singer Sophie Tucker and the title of her autobiography. The song was also used in many film musicals and is part of the repertoire of many Dixieland jazz bands .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ So the data does not only refer to Billboard magazine , which only published a weekly hit parade in late 1935 / early 1936. See Joel Whitburn: Pop Memories 1890–1954 . Record Research, Menomone Falls WI 1986 - cf. Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts , p. 9.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Gerhard Klußmeier: Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International, ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4
3. ↑ Grammy Hall of Fame (QZ)