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 Flashbacks
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Drug Songs
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  US-0275
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From simple tobacco to caffeine, and from illicit narcotics to moonshine alcohol, 25 titles chronicle those addictive substances which temporarily produce a buzz, banish cares and increase energy levels. The highs, the lows, the pleasure and the pain are all here in a diverse selection of songs from the period 1917 to 1944.
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Novelty Songs
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 US-0276
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Imitation train whistles and Oriental instruments, yodels and scat vocals, uncontrollable laughter and strings of tongue twisting nonsense syllables feature in this cosmopolitan ragbag of 27 absurd, zany, hilarious and logic defying tracks recorded between 1914 and 1946.
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Copulation Blues
Various |
 US-0273
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Themes running through this compilation include seduction and betrayal, loss of innocence and a healthy enjoyment of sex. Innuendo and metaphor, an explicit and unexpurgated example from the underground 'party' tradition, and the most convincing fake orgasm on record are featured in these 25 items dating from the period 1926 to 1940.
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Heartbreakers
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 US-0278
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24 tracks recorded between 1927 and 1946 reveal the many faces of the blues. Songs of lost love, dire straits, unrequited longing and endless nights of loneliness are offset by songs of hope and promise and some up tempo blues instrumentals. Black and white folk traditions sit comfortably alongside uptown numbers from Hollywood and the Broadway stage.
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Halleluja
Various |
 US-0279
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Exuberant and joyous vocals celebrate deeply held beliefs in the power of religion to heal, comfort and ultimately allow the passage into everlasting life. This compilation contains 23 powerful tracks spanning the years 1926 to 1946, performed by urbane quartets and rasping street singers, vaudevillian blues divas and ordained ministers.
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American War Songs
Various |
 US-0280
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Fifty exhilarating tracks tell the story of marijuana usage within the jive culture of the American underbelly during the 1920s and 30s. Jazz, blues, and hokum by many of the greatest singers and players of the period evoke an era that was hip and cool from within, and despised from without. Chill out, kick back and enjoy.
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Dope & Glory
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 US-0295
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Fifty exhilarating tracks tell the story of marijuana usage within the jive culture of the American underbelly during the 1920s and 30s. Jazz, blues, and hokum by many of the greatest singers and players of the period evoke an era that was hip and cool from within, and despised from without. Chill out, kick back and enjoy.
"Dope and Glory follows on from the great 'Flashbacks Vol. 1: High & Low - Drug Songs' with 50 songs devoted to Texas Tea. The salacious joy and sly humour of nearly all of these swinging reefer tracks (made after the FBI and police shut down Harlem's 1200 hash bars) by such jives as Mezz Mezzrow, Fats Waller, Harlan Lattimore, The Harlem Hamfats, Cab Calloway, Sidney Bechet, Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxob, Jazz Gillum and The Cedar Creek Shelk, amongst many others, is perhaps the best argument against the liberalisation of drug law there is."
"Treasury of hipster fun.... sheer unbridled stoner fun".
Andy Gill, The Independant
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