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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Episode 2: "My Front Door Is Open" by Hank Thompson

In this episode, our second, we consult the soothing sounds of Hank Thompson to welcome you and remind you that our front door is open to summoners like you.

Henry William Thompson known professionally as Hank Thompson, was an American country music entertainer whose career spanned seven decades. He sold more than 60 million records worldwide. His musical style, characterized as honky tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals. He passed away in November of 2007.

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Episode 1: "On The Corduroy Road" by Al Duvall

We have a special fondness for Al Duvall and his track "On The Corduroy Road" which was the first feature track on the Low Elo League of Legends podcast.

Born June 31, 1877 in Pahrump, West Virginia, Algernon Otmer Duvall began his musical career on the vaudeville stage as end-man in Lew Dockstader's Minstrels. He fought in a bicycle squadron in Ypres during World War I, where he received a crippling dose of the Hun's mustard. Returning home, he made ends meet working at a sausage factory in Harrington Delaware from 1921 until 1989. He took up the banjo in 1991 as physical therapy for his pleurisy. He went on to master the alto kazoo at the age of 118. "Al" Duvall attributes his remarkable longevity to a daily dram of Hamlin's Quinsy Balsam.

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