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{"id":10641413647,"title":"It's Tight Like That (1925-1930)","handle":"1147","description":"\u003cp\u003eNoted jazz critic Scott Yanow has observed that \"when listening to or discussing jazz from the 1920s, it is easy to just stick to the big names like Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, Bix Beiderbecke, and Duke Ellington. But in reality a great deal of music was recorded during that era. The average listener of the time was not necessarily aware of the jazz giants, and was mostly concerned with getting music that was hot, melodic, full of pep, and danceable.\" Lou Gold's name may not be well-known today, but in the 1920s, he was responsible for hundreds of popular \"hot dance\" records.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn Louis Milton Goldwasser in Russia in 1890, he emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was three years old. As a child he studied piano and began giving lessons while still a teenager himself. By the mid-1910s, he was performing professionally and by 1924 was leading a band regularly at the Club Wigwam in New York City. Like bandleaders Sam Lanin, Nathan Glantz, Ben Selvin, and Adrian Schubert, the late 1920s found Gold organizing frequent recording sessions for dimestore record labels, ultimately producing over 750 sides. He always hired top New York studio musicians like Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey, Irving Kaufman, and Scrappy Lambert (all of whom can be heard on this CD). If the arrangements weren't exactly groundbreaking, they were always tasteful, very danceable, and well-executed with plenty of \"pep.\" Gold also dabbled in composition himself (he had moderate hits with \"Driftwood\" and \"That's My Girl\"), and this CD features three tuneful Gold originals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis CD features a delightful sampling 27 of Gold's \"hottest\" sides, all newly-remastered from excellent copies of the original 78 rpm records for superior sound quality. 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jazz critic Scott Yanow has observed that \"when listening to or discussing jazz from the 1920s, it is easy to just stick to the big names like Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, Bix Beiderbecke, and Duke Ellington. But in reality a great deal of music was recorded during that era. The average listener of the time was not necessarily aware of the jazz giants, and was mostly concerned with getting music that was hot, melodic, full of pep, and danceable.\" Lou Gold's name may not be well-known today, but in the 1920s, he was responsible for hundreds of popular \"hot dance\" records.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn Louis Milton Goldwasser in Russia in 1890, he emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was three years old. As a child he studied piano and began giving lessons while still a teenager himself. By the mid-1910s, he was performing professionally and by 1924 was leading a band regularly at the Club Wigwam in New York City. Like bandleaders Sam Lanin, Nathan Glantz, Ben Selvin, and Adrian Schubert, the late 1920s found Gold organizing frequent recording sessions for dimestore record labels, ultimately producing over 750 sides. He always hired top New York studio musicians like Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey, Irving Kaufman, and Scrappy Lambert (all of whom can be heard on this CD). If the arrangements weren't exactly groundbreaking, they were always tasteful, very danceable, and well-executed with plenty of \"pep.\" Gold also dabbled in composition himself (he had moderate hits with \"Driftwood\" and \"That's My Girl\"), and this CD features three tuneful Gold originals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis CD features a delightful sampling 27 of Gold's \"hottest\" sides, all newly-remastered from excellent copies of the original 78 rpm records for superior sound quality. 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Lou Gold and His Orchestra

It's Tight Like That (1925-1930)

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Noted jazz critic Scott Yanow has observed that "when listening to or discussing jazz from the 1920s, it is easy to just stick to the big names like Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, Bix Beiderbecke, and Duke Ellington. But in reality a great deal of music was recorded during that era. The average listener of the time was not necessarily aware of the jazz giants, and was mostly concerned with getting music that was hot, melodic, full of pep, and danceable." Lou Gold's name may not be well-known today, but in the 1920s, he was responsible for hundreds of popular "hot dance" records.

Born Louis Milton Goldwasser in Russia in 1890, he emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was three years old. As a child he studied piano and began giving lessons while still a teenager himself. By the mid-1910s, he was performing professionally and by 1924 was leading a band regularly at the Club Wigwam in New York City. Like bandleaders Sam Lanin, Nathan Glantz, Ben Selvin, and Adrian Schubert, the late 1920s found Gold organizing frequent recording sessions for dimestore record labels, ultimately producing over 750 sides. He always hired top New York studio musicians like Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey, Irving Kaufman, and Scrappy Lambert (all of whom can be heard on this CD). If the arrangements weren't exactly groundbreaking, they were always tasteful, very danceable, and well-executed with plenty of "pep." Gold also dabbled in composition himself (he had moderate hits with "Driftwood" and "That's My Girl"), and this CD features three tuneful Gold originals.

This CD features a delightful sampling 27 of Gold's "hottest" sides, all newly-remastered from excellent copies of the original 78 rpm records for superior sound quality. Included is a lavish 28-page booklet with comprehensive liner notes by Randy Skretvedt, previously unpublished photographs provided by Lou Gold's family, and a label gallery with images of every record.

Rivermont catalogue number: BSW-1147 (Audio CD)


Track list:

1.
Everybody Loves My Baby
2.
What Did I Tell You
3.
You've Got Those Wanna Go Back Again Blues
4.
Black Bottom
5.
Lucky Day
6.
The Dixie Vagabond
7.
If You See Sally
8.
Sixty Seconds Every Minute
9.
One Sweet Letter From You
10.
Varsity Drag
11.
Here Comes the Show Boat
12.
What a Wonderful Wedding That Will Be
13.
Come On, Baby!
14.
You're the Cream in My Coffee
15.
Don't Be Like That
16.
Outside
17.
All I Want Is 'Ittle Oootsie Oo
18.
It's Tight Like That
19.
Breakaway
20.
Nobody But You
21.
Lovable and Sweet
22.
Alabamy
23.
(Do I Know What I'm Doing) While I'm in Love?
24.
If I Had a Talking Picture of You
25.
If You Could Sweep the Clouds Away
26.
Loving You the Way I Do
27.
When You're in Love - Smile

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Matthew de Lacey Davidson
The Lou Gold album is pure gold. Sorry, I couldn't resist.

I’ve known about Gold's records for most of my life – you can find them everywhere including all three countries where I’ve lived, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. I believe I found one in Argentina, too.

This album has some variable recording quality, although this in no way reflects poorly upon Rivermont, nor producer Bryan Wright who did all the remastering and transferring. It’s rare that you can say someone produced “countless” anything, but Lou Gold is one of those figures. Most record collectors know him, but Gold was so prolific that I doubt if there will ever be a collector who knows all of Gold’s work. Examples of his recordings included here are on a variety of labels, Perfect, Banner, Cameo, Regal, Diva, many largely “dime store” labels that sold records at a price your average person could afford, but not always recorded with the most optimal equipment of the time. As a result, some of the transfers really “pop,” while others are perhaps a little lack-lustre. But having heard countless LPs and CDs over the years of “hot” dance music, I know for a fact that Mr. Wright did an exceptional and extraordinary job of remastering these little masterpieces.

Little is known about Lou Gold. We know he was an exemplary pianist and band leader. But like Adrian Schubert, we will probably never know more about him than blessedly little, and most of his instrumentalists are probably similarly unknowable.

All the recordings are all so well played and well-practiced it is difficult to pick out favourites. The album charges out of the opening gates swinging with a rousing performance of “Everybody Loves My Baby.” The second, “What Did I Tell You,” has great alto saxophone work and a driving bass force behind it. “Lucky Day” has a lovely vocal with a violin obbligato, followed by a great little trumpet solo followed by a great clarinet solo followed by a rousing final chorus. “Sixty Seconds Every Minute” was recorded quite possibly with electrical equipment, and you can hear great brass bass work followed by a great vocal accompanied on piano (by Lou Gold probably?) followed by a lovely trombone solo with novelty “clock effects.”

“Breakaway” I’ve known for almost as long as I’ve been listening to music. The lyrics are kind of silly, but the tune is fabulous, and is given a great rendition with saxophones followed by a trumpet solo, “call and response” between sax, trumpet, clarinets and any other number of instruments. This is the sort of thing Bix and Tram used to do.

With “If I Could Sweep the Clouds Away” you start to hear less of the “hot” dance band music of the 1920s and more of the “sweet” arrangements of swing bands in the 1930s with more violins. It is a delightful contrast to the other songs.

My only complaint is that this album doesn’t include “Ramona,” a beautiful waltz-ballad recorded around about the same time as “Breakaway.” But most people probably don’t know about this side, just like I’ve never heard most of Gold’s other recordings.

This is an essential album for any collector of “hot” dance music. The transfers and remastering are excellent, as are the liner notes written by Randy Skretvedt. It’s hard to imagine him leaving any stone unturned in his search for the paltry amount we can know about the extraordinary Mr. Gold. I recommend this album without reservation.

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Barry McCanna
A JEWEL TO BE TREASURED

Anyone who's purchased one of Rivermont's offerings (see The Big Broadcast series for example) will need no persuading of the excellence of this product, but for the uninitiated let me extol its virtues. Lou Gold recorded extensively throughout the twenties, as witnessed by over 25 pages of discography, and most 78 collectors will have come across his output. Some of New York's best session men passed through his ranks, and this compilation features variously Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey, Miff Mole and Joe Tarto. Like most bandleaders of the period he recorded a wide range of material, from popular songs to hotter numbers, but all excellently arranged and played in the prevalent "peppy" style (although "Breakaway" is comparatively limpid). There is one audible needle dig, but otherwise the remastering is exemplary, with a warm and full acoustic, and the 26-page liner booklet contains an illustrated biography and a commentary on the recordings by Randy Skretvedt, with photos of the original labels. This is a jewel of a CD which should be treasured.

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