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...
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Mr. Fox
- Mar 8, 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
- Aug 27, 2020
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
- May 4, 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
- Apr 20, 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 18, 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 16, 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
- Aug 2, 2019
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
- Jul 25, 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 23, 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 22, 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 20, 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 18, 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 14, 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
- Jun 16, 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 13, 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
- May 18, 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 17, 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...
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