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114. Van & Schenck
After You Get What You Want you Don’t Want It
Written by Irving Berlin
Van & Schenck had already achieved two no.1 singles with For Me And My Gal and Mandy and in October 1920 they peaked at no.
115. Billy Murray
The Alcoholic Blues
Written by Albert Von Tilzer & Edward Laska
Prohibition, the law making the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcohol in the USA was a gradual process which built momentum during the nineteenth century against alcoholism, family violence and saloon-based political corruption. Just one week after the armistice had ended the Great War, the US Congress passed the temporary Wartime Prohibition Act, which banned the sale of alcoholic beverages having an alcohol content of greater than 1.28% and by January 1919 an amendment, banning the sale of all alcohol had been ratified by 36 of the 48 states. The new laws were popular with rural living people who were against urban immigrants, especially the Germans who were the most vocal supporters of alcohol and owned large sections of the brewery and distilling industries. Everybody knew that National Prohibition was not far away and the nationwide 18th amendment to the US cons
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- Wabash Blues (Isham Jones and his Orchestra)
- Ma! He�s Making Eyes At Me (Isham Jones and his Orchestra)
- Down By The O-HI-O (Al Jolson)
- The Wang Wang Blues (Paul Whiteman)
- Feather Your Nest (Henry Burr and Albert Campbell)
- The Shiekh Of Araby (Sam Lanin)
- When Buddah Smiles (Rudy Wiedoeft)
- Look For The Silver Lining (Marion Harris)
- Palesteena (The Original Dixieland Jazz Band)
- Bright Eyes (Leo Reisman and his Orchestra)
- Make Believe (Nora Bayes)
- My Mammy (The Peerless Quartet)
- Say It With Music (Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra)
- Ain�t We Got Fun? (Van and Schenck)
- Kismet (The Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra)
- All By Myself (Ted Lewis)
- Cherie (Paul Whiteman)
- Margie (Eddie Cantor)
- Home Again Blues (Aileen Stanley)
- Song of India (Paul Whiteman)
- Crazy Blues (Maimie Smith and her Jazz Hounds)
- Yoo-Hoo! (Al Jolson)
- Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old �Tucky Home (Vernon Dalhart)
- And Her Mother Came Too (Jack Buchanan)
- My Man (Mon Homme) (Fanny Brice)
I wonder how many people today realise that it is less than one hundred years ago that the words "Jazz Age" were whispered, something not to be discussed in "polite" circles. Only people who should know better played Jazz, it was said. With The Great War over many "ordinary people" were hoping to ge