Seminola

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Seminola is the title of an American foxtrot popular song of the songwriter Harry Warren and Robert King , who also compacted the English lyrics.

distribution

In the USA

The Indian Song , also: Indian Love Song or Indian Fox-Trot , as the song is called on the sheet music titles, was published in 1925 by Skidmore Music Co. Inc. in New York.

Seminola (Indian Fox Trot; Words & Music by Robert King and Harry Warren) was also included in the anthology The GEM Dance Folio for 1926 , compiled by Jacques Adrian and published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Music Publishers, New York, NY Published in 1925.

In Germany

Theo A. Körner wrote a German text on it, the refrain of which was boldly “Well, what is doing?” asks. The hit, here referred to as “Foxtrot Shimmy”, was published in 1925 by the music publisher “City” by Anton J. Benjamin in Leipzig. It was also included in the anthology No. 7 of the series Zum 5 Uhr Tee , which the publisher Anton J. Benjamin organized together with the Viennese Bohême-Verlag.

classification

"Seminola" is in a series of hits like Na-jo (Navajo), Indianola (both 1921), Indian Love Call (1924) or Sue City Sue (In the Sioux Indian Home, 1925) at least in the title deal with the Native Americans . But many of them try to find echoes of Indian music in rhythm and melody - or what white people imagine it to be. Some establish the association with person names (“Winnetou-Onestep”) or place names (“By The Waters Of Minnetonka”).

Traces of a cross-cultural fusion of folk music of the Indians of North America with Western music can be found in the field of serious music with European composers such as Edward MacDowell , Antonín Dvořák and Ferruccio Busoni , but also with outsiders of American musical life, such as B. the MacDowell pupil Arthur Farwell , who wrote two stage plays with Indian themes, with the song composer Frederick R. Burton or with the creator of the Indian opera "Shanewis" performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1918/19, Charles Wakefield Cadman .

Impact history

In America, dance orchestras like those of Jan Garber , Henri Gendron or Leo Reisman as well as jazz bands like the Original Indiana Five put the title on the gramophone record.

In Great Britain, the Savoy Orpheans, made famous by their radio broadcasts from the Savoy Hotel in London, played the title for HMV on record. On the Columbia offshoot "Regal" he could be heard by the Corona Dance Orchestra , which was conducted by Stan Greening .

“Seminola” also became a popular hit in Germany, played by jazz-oriented dance orchestras such as Dajos Béla , Otto Dobrindt or Efim Schachmeister as well as the “Charleston Orchestra” by alto saxophonist and clarinetist Roger Fisbach , which could be heard on Vox , or the German-American band leader and violinist Alex Hyde , who occasionally recorded the Foxtrot with his “New York Original Jazz Orchestra” during his visit to Berlin in the summer of 1925 at “Grammophon”.

In Poland, the title was used in a cabaret revue at the Perskie Oko Theater in Warsaw in 1926 , where Artur Gold and Jerzy Petersburski recorded it with their dance orchestra for “Syrena Record”. In the Soviet Union, the Russian jazz pioneer Alexander Naumowitsch Zfasman recorded the title for the state label Mus Trust with his “Ama” orchestra in 1929 .

“Seminola” also appeared as a piano roll for mechanical musical instruments.

Sheet music editions

  • Seminola: an Indian love song: fox trot by Harry Warren and Robert King; orch. by Arthur Lange. For salon orchestra. New York: Skidmore Music Co. Inc., © 1925.
  • Seminola: (an Indian love song); Foxtrot Shimmy by Harry Warren & Robert King. Arr. v. E. Haensch. For orchestra. Leipzig: Benjamin, © 1925.
  • Seminola (Indian Fox Trot; Words & Music by Robert King and Harry Warren), in: The GEM Dance Folio for 1926. compiled by J. Adrian. Contains piano music to 30 fox-trots and waltzes. 64 pp., Publ. by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Music Publishers, Cor. Broadway & 47th Street, New York, NY 1925.
  • What's up? (Seminola): Words by Theo Körner. Music by Harry Warren & Robert King. For voice and piano. 4 leaves, publisher no. AJB8279. Title illustration by Lobba. Leipzig: Benjamin, © 1925.
  • At 5 o'clock tea: 20 selected dance, operetta and Song hits. Volume VII. Leipzig: Benjamin, © 1925, printing plate no. AJB 8439 (here p. 16, no. 6)

Audio documents

1. American

  • Seminola: an Indian love song: fox trot by Harry Warren and Robert King. Jan Garber’s Orchestra. Victor 19 689 (Matr. BVE 32 720), rec. 5/29/1925
  • Seminola: an Indian love song: fox trot by Harry Warren and Robert King. Leo Reisman Orchestra. Columbia 371-D (Mat. 140.552), rec. 4/26/1925
  • Seminola: an Indian love song: fox trot by Harry Warren and Robert King. Henri Gendron and His Strand Roof Orchestra. Edison Diamond Disc 51 570-L (Matr. 10 386), rec. 1925
  • Seminola: an Indian love song: fox trot by Harry Warren and Robert King. The Original Indiana Five . Gennett 3060, rec. 5/1/1925, New York, NY

2. British

  • Seminola, an Indian love song. Fox-trot (R. King - H. Warren) The Savoy Orpheans at the Savoy Hotel, London. His Master's Voice B 2052 / 4-175 (Mat. Bb 6120 I)
  • Seminola: fox trot (Warren & King) Corona Dance Orchestra. Shelf G 8399 (mat. A 2120)

3. German

  • Seminola (Warren & King) Celebre Orchestra Di Danze Sandor Jozsi [d. i. Dajos Béla ] Odeon SO 83 688 [Italian edition], Sándor Józsi chapel: Odeon A 44 668 / O-3306 (German edition), (Matr. XBe 4914), post. Dec 9, 1925
  • What's up? (Seminola - An Indian love song) Shimmy (Harry Warren and Robert King) Orchestra Dajos Béla. Odeon AA 50 31 (Mat. XxBo 8672)
  • Seminola. Foxtrot (Warren & King) Fisbach's Charleston Orchestra. Vox 8080 (Matr. 3061 B). Berlin, December 1925
  • Seminola (Well, what's going on?) Shimmy Foxtrot (Harry Warren and Robert King) Saxophone Orchestra Dobbri Beka B. 5417-II (Matr. 33 219). January 19, 1926
  • Seminola (Well, what's going on?) Indian Song (Warren) Efim Schachmeister with his artist ensemble. Record “Grammophon” 19 520 / B 60 837 (mat.? Bk), put on. March 1926
  • Seminola. Indian Foxtrot (Warren & King) The Alex Hyde Jazz Band. Grammophon / Polydor 20 261 / B 41 517 (Matr. 2049 ½ at). July 1925

4. Polish

  • Seminola (R. King & H. Warren) Fox Trot z rewii teatru Perskie Oko “Gdzie diabeł nie może tam babę pośle” [from the review of the Perskie Oko Theater: Where the devil can't go, he sends a woman] - Orc. A. Golda i J. Petersburskiego [Gold & Petersburski Dance Orchestra], Syrena Grand Record 584 (Matr. 17 821), nagr. w Warszawike 1926

5. Russian

  • Семинолла, фокстр, исп. Ама Джаз п / упр. Цфасмана А.Н. [Seminolla, Fokstr., Isp. Ama Jaz p / upr. Tsfasmana AH] Mus Trust No. 536 (Matr. 536). 1929

literature

  • Ginny Billings, Bob Billings: The Billings Rollography: Pianists (= The Billings Rollography: Player Piano Music from 1917 to 1934. Volume 3). Rock Soup Press, Reno, NV 1990.
  • Brian Dolan: Inventing Entertainment: The Player Piano and the Origins of an American Musical Industry. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7425-6461-9 .
  • Horst H. Lange: The German 78er discography of hot dance and jazz music 1903-1958 . Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1966. (2nd, expanded edition. 1978, ISBN 3-7678-0452-2 )
  • Michael V. Pisani: Imagining Native America in Music. Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-13073-7 , pp. 79, 99, 105. (Seminoles)
  • Arthur A. Reblitz, Q. David Bowers: Treasures of mechanical music. Vestal Press, 1981, ISBN 0-911572-20-1 .
  • Charles Davis Smith, Richard J. Howe: The Welte-Mignon: its music and musicians. Vestal Press for the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association, 1994, ISBN 1-879511-17-7 .
  • Christian Zwarg: PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers - 30173 to 34999: German. Discography at phonomuseum.at

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ title shown. at blogspot.com (retrieved 5/30/16); a compilation of the international editions with illus . of the music titles can be found at floridasheetmusic.com
  2. ↑ title shown. at abebooks.com (retrieved 05/30/16)
  3. ↑ According to the note “Sung by Theo Körner” on the sheet music title, Körner also performed his text himself; however, no sung recording of his song has yet been found.
  4. ↑ Title of the sheet music with the note “Gesungen von Theo Körner” together with a photo. at imagesmusicales.be
  5. ↑ illustration of of Willy Herzig band title illustrated in albis-international.de
  6. ↑ cf. Pisani p. 267f.
  7. ↑ cf. Art. “Music of the North American Indians” at Schulbuchzentrum-Online , where it says: “Songs and dances accompany the everyday life of the Indians; there are lullabies, dance songs, songs for work and for parties. Above all, however, they are the focus of cult ceremonies. Vowel forms: (songs) predominate; they are mostly unanimous and are mainly sung in a group; their form is consistently strophic. Voice sound: often “pressed”, sometimes nasally colored (e.g. to imitate ghost voices). There is hardly any pure instrumental music; Musical instruments are used almost exclusively in connection with song and dance. The flute, which has magic power, is an exception. Melody: varied; In addition to narrow melodies made up of short motifs, there are also sweeping arcs of melodies. Rhythm: mostly simple, almost monotonous; but there are also irregular rhythmic-metric units. "(p. 232)
  8. ↑ There were two of them: an American by the composer H. Oldhouse: Winnetou. American interlude. One step (Notenblatt Mainz: Schott, 1913: swissbib.ch ) and a German by Walter Kollo from the musical Schwank “Der rejüngte Adolar” with text by Hermann Frey (Notenblatt Berlin: Kollo, 1920: worldcat.org )
  9. ↑ by Thurlow Lieurance , published by Theodore Presser in 1913 as "an Indian love song" with words by JM Cavanass ; the orchestra Paul Whiteman recorded the song in New York in 1924 (Victor 19 391, Matrix Number B-30177/2), Alex Hyde with his New York Original Jazz Orchestra at the end of June 1925 in Berlin (record “Grammophon” 20 251, mx. 2033 at)
  10. ↑ 1861–1909, wrote e.g. B. The legend of Sleepy Hollow , a cantata for mixed choir, soprano and bass solo and orchestra (1900)
  11. ↑ cf. Pisani p. 271 f.
  12. ↑ on this musician cf. mgthomas.co.uk (English)
  13. ↑ cf. Lange, 78 discography p. 486.
  14. ↑ z. B. QRS 3220, Sept. 1925, cf. Billings & Billings p. 104; Welte Mignon 5797, cf. Smith-Howe pp. 258, 368 and 881. Reblitz-Bowers p. 150.
  15. ↑ cf. DAHR at ucsb.edu
  16. ↑ cf. DAHR at ucsb.edu
  17. ↑ listen on youtube
  18. ↑ listen at redhotjazz.com
  19. ↑ Odeon label shown. with shellac transmitter
  20. ↑ Zwarg, PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers - 30173 to 34999: German, p. 388, to be heard at gramofononline.hu , the label is also shown there
  21. ↑ listen on youtube
  22. ↑ listen on youtube
  23. ↑ listen on youtube
  24. ↑ listen at russian-records.com