A cry for help! (music)

[Jockos]

Hello fellow loungers!

It's kind of last minute call but I'm throwing a small party this Saturday, and would like to play some upbeat golden era music!

If you have any appropriate tunes, please add it to this list:

http://open.spotify.com/user/jockos/playlist/6DnuqQu50HCWhHnHR6SdeV

Cheers!

Joachim

 

[Fading Fast]

A Glen Miller album (or put Glen Miller in Pandora as that will give you Glen Miller and similar type of music) would be a good start.

 

[vitanola]

Benny Goodman's 1935 and 1936 sides for the Victor, including "Santa Claus Came in the Spring" [video=youtube_share;MrOfHV7c39Y]http://youtu.be/MrOfHV7c39Y[/video],

 

[vitanola]

"Jingle Bells" [video=youtube_share;Y3U6ifB--b4]http://youtu.be/Y3U6ifB--b4[/video]

 

[vitanola]

Perhaps this Christmas 1935 remote broadcast from the Hotel Congress in Chicago, featuring the Goodman Orchestra, as part of the NBC program "Let's Dance" [video=youtube_share;uLYgiozxKRs]http://youtu.be/uLYgiozxKRs[/video]

 

[cw3pa]

You could go with some Fats Waller for some non Christmas tunes.

 

[emigran]

Perrry Como, Dinah Shore, BIng Crosby,Kay Ballard, Modernaires, Paul Whitman, Mel TOrme, Four Freshman, Hi Lo's, Vaughn Monroe, Cab Calloway, Les Brown, Xavier Cugat, Edmundo Ross,Dakota Staton...

 

[Mr.Astor]

Bump

 

[Nobert]

You could go with some Fats Waller for some non Christmas tunes.

Or...

[video=youtube;DyIH7F1-LE4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyIH7F1-LE4[/video]

 

[Fading Fast]

Hi again, I was rushing when I posted earlier, this album in particular is a great Glenn Miller Christmas album:

http://www.amazon.com/In-Christmas-Mood-Glenn-Miller/dp/B00001R3OB

 

[Rudie]

Harlem Hamfats and Louis Jordan are great for dancing!

 

[vitanola]

Virtually any of Goodman's pre-1939 sides work well as background music for parties, tunes like "Hunkadola", "Don't Be That Way", "Big John's Special", and "Let's Dance". Fletcher Henderson's stuff worls well, too, sides including "Sugar Foot Stomp", "What-Cha-Call-'Em Blues", "Clarinet Marmalade", "Variety Stomp", "Riffin'", and "Grand Terrace Rhythm". Some up-tempo small-group music works well, too. Look for recordings by Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys ("Onyx Spree", "Hjere Kati", "Twilight in Turkey", "Knock Knock (Who's There)". Jimmie Noone's Apex Club band is good, too {"Blues(My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me), "I Know That You Know", "A Monday Date", "El rado Scuffle". Virtually any record by Benny Moten's Kansas City orchestra will work well, too.

 

[GHT]

Harlem Hamfats and Louis Jordan are great for dancing!

Louis Jordan's Saturday Night Fish Fry, and The Harlem Hamfats Weedsmoker's Dream, just brilliant. Do you like gypsy jazz? Google Django Rheinhardt.

 

[vitanola]

I've added a nice group of about 135 sides to your playlist. I'll add a hundred or so more tomorrow, if you like.

 

[vitanola]

I'd recommend that if you use this playlist you try the player on "shuffle", it seems to work better that way.

 

[Jockos]

Thanks for all the contributions!

I'm currently going through the list to pick out the cherries

 

[vitanola]

I posted a total of 3o08 sides, generally dating from the height of the Swing Era, with a very few items dating after the War, and only a few from before 1932 or so. As you were asking for background music for a party, I went light on the vocals, and high on the up-tempo dance items, with a fair sprinkling of seasonal songs, and a little bit of small-group swing. The play-list as it currently stands is better played in "shuffle" mode, for I was in a bit of a rush, and so songs by any given artist are bunched together. I tried to stay away from over-played "chesnuts", but couldn't quite resist including a couple of earlier items which were to my ear both appropriately festive and of some musical interest.