Episode 10: “From Here To Shanghai” by Gene Greene

Public domain music isn't exactly my style but then again Episode 10 of Low Elo was edited and arranged by Dave due to the fact that I was unexpectedly out of town at the time of recording. That said... this is a pretty cool little track.

Eugene Delbert Greene lived from 1857 to 1930 and was better known as Gene Greene. He was an American entertainer, singer and composer, nicknamed The Ragtime King. As a vaudeville star he made some of the earliest sound recordings of scat singing (wordless improvisation) in 1911.

Greene was closely associated with the song "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" by Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi. It was one of the extremely few anti-war music-hall songs during the First World War with most such songs being fiercely pro-war. This reflected the views of Chicago's large German population at the time. That said the song was also well known, and very controversial, in Britain.

Modern recordings of Greene are very scarce.

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