Silent Cinema Recordings: Let’s Go In to a Picture Show Instrumentals 1-17 John Kander

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Hard-Boiled Herman

Potemkin and the Machines

And such notables as Sissle and Blake and the legendary WC Handy

Silent Cinema Recordings: Let’s Go In to a Picture Show Instrumentals 1-17 John KanderGoing to the movies has been a popular pastime since the turn of the last century. In an era without television or radio the theatre and the parlor piano were the entertainment options for a family. As silent movies grew in popularity it was a sure thing that Tin Pan Alley would jump on the bandwagon and write topical songs about going to the movies as well as songs written for the silent movies' scores played on everything from a single piano to a