HITS OF 1930 Original Recordings

If the 1920s had been one long binge of bootleg booze and making whoopee, 1930 was the Morning After, the start of a hangover that had officially begun with the stock market crash of 29th October, 1929. Apple vendors were on street corners in major American cities, and the jobless rate in Britain rose to two million. In Germany, after years of runaway inflation, Adolf Hitler’s National Socialists won more than six million votes in the September election, putting them in second place. And in the USSR, Joseph Stalin instituted the Collective Farm.

In 1930, scientists predicted that man would land on the moon by the year 2050. And C. W. Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto, from reckonings made by Percival Lowell in 1914. DuPont chemists discovered Nylon, which would be introduced to a waiting world in 1938, and 1930 also saw the marketing of frozen peas.

Radio had not yet become the home of the great comedians, but dance