Let’s Go In To A Picture Show

Let's Go In To A Picture Show

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Popular songs on the subject of moving pictures were an international phenomenon from about 1900 through the coming of sound in the late 1920s, and constitute a body of work that has yet to be fully documented and examined. Now, for the first time, these early recordings are saved from obscurity giving us a window into a world long disappeared.  These twenty-six recordings feature every variety of instrumentation and feature top bands and vocalists of the era.

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Description

Grammy Award-winning Harbinger Records, a division of The Musical Theater Project, proudly announces a new release, Let’s Go In to a Picture Show, ​now available to all via download and CD purchase.

Popular songs on the subject of moving pictures were an international phenomenon from about 1900 through the coming of sound in the late 1920s, and constitute a body of work that has yet to be fully documented and examined.

Now, for the first time, these early recordings are saved from obscurity giving us a window into a world long disappeared.  These twenty-six recordings feature every variety of instrumentation and feature top bands and vocalists of the era.

​Extensive liner notes are written by Ron Magliozzi, Curator, Department of Film, Museum of Modern Art.  As an added bonus complete lyrics and background information are included on each song.

Track List:

  1. Gimmie and Maggie In Nickel Land
  2. Let’s Go In To A Picture Show
  3. Dream Of A Rarebit Fiend
  4. At the Tent-Cent Movie Show
  5. Movie Rag
  6. That’s a Real Moving Picture From Life
  7. He’s Working In the Movies Now
  8. The Girl on the Film Valse
  9. If That’s Your Idea of a Wonderful Time
  10. Poor Pauline
  11. Zudora
  12. The Perfect Song
  13. Those Charlie Chaplin Feet
  14. Since Mother Goes to Movie Shows
  15. His Cute Moving Picture Machine
  16. They All Do the Charlie Chaplin Walk
  17. The Peace Patrol
  18. Come Out of the Kitchen, Mary Ann
  19. My Picture Girl
  20. Cartoons in Tunes (Father Was Right)
  21. Mickey
  22. Dear Old Daddy Long Legs
  23. Take Your Girlie to the Movies
  24. The Red Latern
  25. At the Moving Picture Ball
  26. The Sheik of Araby