Category: Halloween Music
Up Jumped the Devil! — Merritt Brunies and the Jazz Age at Chicago’s Friars Inn
Today’s Document Records Halloween Needle Drop Up Jumped the Devil! Merritt Brunies and His Friars Inn Orchestra — Chicago Jazz in the Roaring Twenties Chicago, 1924. Jazz was filling the city’s dance halls and nightclubs, and musicians from New Orleans were helping to transform American popular music. Among them was cornet player and bandleader Merritt … Continue reading “Up Jumped the Devil! — Merritt Brunies and the Jazz Age at Chicago’s Friars Inn”
“The Robins – That Old Black Magic (1956).”Halloween Needle Drop
Halloween Needle Drop: The Robins – That Old Black Magic (1956) A little musical sorcery from Los Angeles, featuring the extraordinary voice of Grady Chapman There are certain recordings that seem to possess a magic all of their own. They may not have been enormous hits, nor even the best-known versions of a particular song, … Continue reading ““The Robins – That Old Black Magic (1956).”Halloween Needle Drop”