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  1. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Well Hadley, let's see what we can do... The leader of the Hatters was Leonard Joy, A & R executive with RCA for many years. Here he is with Duke Ellington in 1940, at the latter's first Victor session on a new contract. Del Staigers was one of the best lead trumpeters of the day. 2nd and...
  2. Fletch

    Animated (vintage) photographs

    I've still got my dad's. Brought it out for my 30th grade school reunion a few years back and it worked like a champ. Unfortunately, the camera (also a B&H) fell apart decades ago.
  3. Fletch

    Animated (vintage) photographs

    I REALLY want to know what she's watching. (With my luck it'd be Paul Newman. :rolleyes: )
  4. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Skokiaan This is pushing the Golden Era a bit, but so what... Skokiaan (a Zulu word meaning a kind of moonshine) was a hit record in South Africa that swept the world in 1954. The composer and alto sax soloist, August Msarurgwa, plays it in the original tsabatsaba style...
  5. Fletch

    Johnny Depp influence: Wisconsin bankers want no hats

    We have a local ordinance saying no shades or hats inside banks. I observe it.
  7. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Rudy Wiedoeft and Benny Krueger, 1932 2 stupendous saxophonists, from the Vitaphone Pepperpot Rambling Round Radio Row. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db9P-u1_2bE
  8. Fletch

    Have you ever had a stranger photograph you...when you were dressed vintage?

    Heh. Sounds like the Parisian dudes approaching American tourist gals going, "Ah wood lak to pent yeu. Weel you let me pent yeu?" Except it wasn't in Paris (not even Paris, Maine).
  9. Fletch

    Jazz

    There's an old saying: put 2 jazz fans together and you get 3 opinions. Funnily enough, jazz doesn't inspire contention so much as it seems to appeal to contentious people. What's up with that, I wonder? Uh oh, Chas is about to Get Me Started on academic jazz studies. Dig, my friend: The...
  10. Fletch

    McSorley's gets a dusting.

    They recently had to banish their cat. Cats have been at McSorley's since 1854. Minnie
  11. Fletch

    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    They look like a bunch of nuns on temporary duty. Scary Irish schoolteaching nuns. Possibly with concealed rulers.
  13. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Ooh, ain't she though? The only thing I don't like is that the band is so swingin' I keep forgetting to watch her move! Ina Ray used all Will Hudson arrangements here. Both were contracted to Mills Music, who did a lot of such cross-promoting. (Untitled Instrumentals) are Hudson originals: #1...
  14. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    "Sound Archives." Bleh. What a name. So evocative of dowdy, overheated fluorescent-lit spaces and intensely colorless unpersonalities whose every word and gesture might as well be shhhhh. B.A. Rolfe & the Lucky Strike Orchestra are too good to just be sound in some archive.
  15. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    music to be still recovering by A Peach of a Pair - Roy Fox & Band, 1931. Al Bowlly puts it over lightly and politely, with a rather un-commercial sounding early Fox outfit. Last chorus features something like a dinner gong, which presumably doesn't have to do with the golf theme in the lyric...
  16. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Take a Number from One to Ten - Jimmie Grier & Orch., 1934. Irrepressibly sunny and guaranteed to make your day a little brighter. Grier's band had that fat and happy sound of old Hollywood, possibly because they snuck onto a lot of film soundtracks. You Hit the Spot - Richard Himber &...
  17. Fletch

    Set film adaptions in the period they were written!

    You all have me wondering how a movieization of The Spirit might have come off if Frank Miller hadn't gotten his mitts on it. Would it have been best along the lines of Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy - taking place in a live-action but determinedly cartoony mise-en-scène? Or should it have been...
  19. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    I don't think anyone would seriously argue that. But people do argue that "hardness" is a sign of experience in the real world, and that can excuse, or even condone, callousness to others.
  20. Fletch

    Your personality traits~ best and worst

    Best: humor, empathy, generosity. Worst: cynicism, unmotivation, oversensitivity.
  21. Fletch

    Unpopular music opinions

    I just yesterday learned the word oontz. This sounds vaguely Pennsylvania Dutch but is actually what techno music is supposed to sound like if you repeat it rhythmically: oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz. Isn't that interesting? I knew you would.
  22. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    Well...there are two signs that you are doing the wrong thing with your life. One is having more stress than you can handle. The other is having no more stress than you can handle. [huh]
  23. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    And the present day allegiance of white working-class populism and proud anti-intellectualism is going to make sure that situation hangs around for a good while yet. It'll still be a feather in your cap to go to college - at least if you're a woman or a sissy who can't hack the trades - but...

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