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{{listen | filename=Victor Military Band-The Memphis Blues.ogg | title=Victor Military Band: The Memphis Blues|description=[[W. C. Handy]]'s "[[The Memphis Blues]]". Recorded by Victor Military Band, July 15, 1914. | format=[[Ogg]]
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*1910 – "[[Chinatown, My Chinatown]]".<ref>{{cite web | title=Chinatown, My Chinatown | url=http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-7/chinatownmychinatown.htm | publisher=JazzStandards.com | access-date=2009-02-20}}</ref> Popular song with [[music of China|Chinese]] influences, composed by [[Jean Schwartz]] with lyrics by [[William Jerome]].<ref name="Moon 2005, p. 100">{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Moon|2005|p=100}}</ref> The song was included in the 1910 musical revue ''Up and Down Broadway'' and became popular among vaudeville performers in the 1910s.<ref name="Moon 2005, p. 100"/> Many [[Chinese American]] performers sang the song in both English and [[Cantonese language|Cantonese]].<ref name="Moon 2005, p. 100"/> Hit recordings were made by the [[American Quartet (ensemble)|American Quartet]] in 1915 and by [[Louis Armstrong]] in 1932.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Jasen|2002|p=36}}</ref> An [[easy listening]] arrangement of the song was also recorded by the [[John Serry Sr|John Serry Sextette]] for [[RCA Thesaurus]] in 1954.<ref>[https://www.esm.rochester.edu/sibley/files/John-J-Serry-Sr-Collection.pdf Eastman School of Music - University of Rochester - Sibley Music Library: John J. Serry Sr. Collection "John Serry Sextette" Audio recording for RCA Thesaurus of arrangements and performances by John Serry at the RCA Victor Studios in 1954 p. 18-19 The John J. Serry Sr. Collection archived at the University of Rochester]</ref>
*1910 – "[[Some of These Days]]".<ref>{{cite web | title=Some of These Days | url=http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-4/someofthesedays.htm | publisher=JazzStandards.com | access-date=2009-02-20}}</ref> Popular song by [[Shelton Brooks]]. It was popularized by vaudeville performer [[Sophie Tucker]], who used it as her theme song.<ref name="Wilder & Maher 1972, p. 14">{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Wilder|Maher|1972|p=14}}</ref> Tucker recorded the song six times, and sang it in the films ''[[Broadway Melody of 1938]]'' (1937) and ''[[Follow the Boys (1944 film)|Follow the Boys]]'' (1944). Brooks's distinctively modern composition was not derived from any of the popular song elements of the time, and the song is considered one of the earliest American [[pop standard]]s.<ref name="Wilder & Maher 1972, p. 14"/><ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Furia|Lasser|2006|pp=1–2}}</ref>
*1911 – "[[Alexander's Ragtime Band]]".<ref>{{cite web | title=Alexander's Ragtime Band | url=http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-5/alexandersragtimeband.htm | publisher=JazzStandards.com | access-date=2009-02-20}}</ref> Popular song by [[Irving Berlin]]. Introduced by vaudeville performer [[Emma Carus]] in Chicago,<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Hemming|1999|p=30}}</ref> it was Berlin's first international hit and the biggest Tin Pan Alley hit of the time.<ref name="Furia 1992, pp. 49–50">{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Furia|1992|pp=49–50}}</ref> Although the music contained few ragtime elements, it started a ragtime craze and introduced the [[vernacular]] as a valid form of expression in song lyrics.<ref name="Furia 1992, pp. 49–50"/> The melody was allegedly copied from a [[Scott Joplin]] composition.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Berlin|1995|p=210}}</ref>
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