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Old records from France: My love Cherie
During my search for French Jazz Music from the thirties I found a 78-t record from the band Tomas et ses Merry Boys 'My Love Cherie'. A...

Mr. Fox
Sep 4, 2021


Music and Propaganda, the destruction of a composer's career
Nations, powerful men, dictators, politicians, sport institutions or even a professional player of darts, it is a common use to choose a...

Mr. Fox
Mar 8, 2021


Elections in the U.S., reflections of the past
Last week I was watching a documentary about the Night of the Long Knives, Germany 1934. It was a brutal execution of political opponents...

Mr. Fox
Aug 27, 2020


Improvising 'La Violetera' by Naudo
During my search for remarkeble Vintage Music I found a partition of the song 'La Violetera' with French lyrics of the famous Spanish...

Mr. Fox
May 4, 2020


General perspective on Covid-19, part 2
In this blog I will explain the relationship between a game changer like the Covid-19 pandemic and what we can learn about human...

Mr. Fox
Apr 20, 2020


General perspective on Covid-19, part one
In this first part of my blog about the Corona pandemic I will give you my general thoughts about the crisis our world is facing today....

Mr. Fox
Apr 18, 2020


The King of Military Marches: Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg,
During my research this week on Vintage Music, I found some interesting partitions of H.L. Blankenburg, (1878-1956) composer of over 1300...

Mr. Fox
Apr 16, 2020


Marika Rökk, superstar German Second World War generation
During my research for the development of the German Sheet Music part of the website, I found some interesting material about the...

Mr. Fox
Aug 2, 2019


Théodore Botrel, Poems and Politics
Today I dived into the life of Théodore Botrel, a French singer-songwriter (14 September 1868 – 28 July 1925), well known as the 'Bard...

Mr. Fox
Jul 25, 2019


Dark Eyes (Ochi Chornya)
Dark Eyes, Deine schwarze Augen or Les Yeux Noirs is one of the most famous Russian romance songs: 'Ochi Chornya, 1843'. In the French...

Mr. Fox
Jul 23, 2019


'On the black sea' by Georges Boulanger and Leo Rodi: kick-off VintageMusicShop Berlin
Beside the French Sheet Music, we started this week with the exploration of great vintage German Sheet Music. After the Great War, Berlin...

Mr. Fox
Jul 22, 2019


Minor Swing, step by step
Django Reinhardt recorded Minor Swing in 1937 with 'Hot Club the France'. Gypsy Jazz or Jazz Manouche was getting more and more popular...

Mr. Fox
Jul 20, 2019


VintageMusicShop Paris on Spotify
This week I started to create a playlist with an at random selection of French Sheet Music chansons on Spotify. It means that there is a...

Mr. Fox
Jul 18, 2019


Django Reinhardt special
A few years ago I decided to dive into the world of Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club de France and made a few guitar arrangements plus...

Mr. Fox
Jul 14, 2019


Ninon, quand tu me souris
When I first heard this song I was very pleased with the craftsmanship of this composition and I loved the melody immediately. This was a...

Mr. Fox
Jun 16, 2019


Tino Rossi, a phenomenon in music
Last week I broke my arm just below my shoulder, very painful as you can imagine, so I took some time for research on vintage music...

Mr. Fox
Jun 13, 2019


The Music of Paula Chabran (ca. 1925)
The project that we are working on at the moment is the music of Paula Chabran (1925). In the Chambonchard archive we found lot's of...

Mr. Fox
May 18, 2019


The Roux Family
The original French sheet music that resulted in the development of the Vintage Music Shop Database was founded in the village...

Mr. Fox
May 17, 2019
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