1935 HITS ARCHIVE: Music Hall Rag - Benny Goodman

🎉 Today in 1935, 'Jubilee' opened on Broadway with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Moss Hart. The show paired royal comedy with a score that traveled far beyond its original production. From “Begin the Beguine” to “Just One of Those Things,” the songs went beyond the theater to the world! 🎵 You can hear Porter’s gift for elegant melody and conversational rhyme... the combination that made bandleaders, jazz singers, and film studios fall in love with these tunes for decades. ❤️ Si

Bobby’s Polka: Here’s a little Johnny Pecon/ Lou Trebar tune on a 1935 Anton Mervar diatonic button accordion. After checking out the original recording, I didn’t play the last section that Pecon/ Trebar included. I also had a lesson with a student recently who reminded me that the first section of the song is a Matt Hoyer composition, “Vipavaska.” It’s always interesting how sections of songs are borrowed and rearranged. This happens in many forms of music. For example, jazz compositions that a