NBC: RE: If Henry Ford Would Have Had His Way...

[Jimmy Jacobs]

There was a reference to this book in last night's Boardwalk Empire on HBO.
I believe the context was the initiation of "business" among the New Jersey,
Chicago, and New York mobs.


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Henry Ford self-published a book called "The International Jew", warning
Anglo-Saxons against the international Jewish banking experience.

Supposedly, Ford also had issues with Catholics as he considered their
first loyalty was to a "foreign dictator" (the Pope....)

Just goes to show you that sometimes geniuses can be a-holes....

Son  Lewis
Blues Vocalist/Guitarist
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In a message dated 9/20/2010 12:03:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
bluesyall@WILDBLUE.NET writes:

Chuck,
thanks for sharing that info.  That was very  interesting.  I'm going to
have
to study a bit more more about the  transformation from ragtime to jazz.
Too bad Henry Ford was such a rich and  powerful close minded man and who
chose to shared his close mindedness with  the public.  Mean hearted
and ignorant - a dangerous  combination!
Valerie Johnson
vjblues.com

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at  2:59 AM, Chuck <hhs249@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, I admit it. Not  only am I fairly uneducated (high school dropout),
but
> I am also  extremely naive. I really never knew what a SOB Henry was. I
also
>  never knew, till I ran across this article on Jewish Jazz--Moron  Music,
> pulled from an article written by Ford and published by Ford in  the
Dearborn
> newspaper that he owned, that had Henry Ford have had his  way, jazz and
> ragtime (and, by extension, the blues) would have been  thrown under a
Ford
> Model T (along with anyone of the Jewish faith),  and ran over, backed up
and
> ran over again and again, until it was all  but roadkill.
>
> Here a few paragraphs culled from that story  that illustrate his venomous
> belief:
>
>  The first  attempt to popularize and commercialize the so-called
"popular"
> type  of music was made by Julius Witmark, who had been a ballad singer on
>  the minstrel stage. He ceased performing to become a publisher, and was
soon
> followed by East Side Jews, many of whom have become wealthy  through
their
> success in pandering to a public taste which they first  debased.
> Irving Berlin, whose real name is Ignatz or Isadore Baline,  is one of the
> most successful of these Jewish song controllers. He was  born in Russia
and
> early became a singer and entertainer. With the  rise of "rag-time," which
> was the predecessor of "jazz," he found a  new field for his nimble
talents
> and his first big success was  "Alexander's Rag-Time Band" - a popular
piece
> which by comparison with  what has followed it, is a blushing, modest
thing.
>
> It was  worth noting, in view of the organized eagerness of the Jew to
make
> an  alliance with the Negro, that it was Jewish "jazz" that rode in upon
the
> wave of Negro "rag-time" popularity, and eventually displaced  the
> "rag-time."
>
> Berlin has steadily gone the road from  mere interestingness to unashamed
> erotic suggestion. He is the  "headliner" in homes as well as in the
> not-too-particular music halls,  but his stuff without its music sometimes
> savors of vile  suggestion.
>
> The motif of this business can be clearly seen in  the "Berlin Big Hits."
> There are the so-called "vamp" songs, such as  "Harem Life," and "You
Cannot
> Make Your Shimmy Shake on  Tea."
>
>
>  ____________________________________
>
> chuck
> Sent from  my iPad
>
>
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