What are you listening to?

[Shangas]

Tom Lehrer - "New Math".

342-173 =...?

 

[HadleyH]

Isham Jones

so beautiful...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk-QVihbWro

 

[kittypackard]

so beautiful...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk-QVihbWro

oooh, Isham Jones. Talk about a Legend!

I'm listening to Gus Arnheim and his Orchestra, trying to pretend that I'm knocking back a Knickerbocker at the Ambassador.

 

[HodgePodge]

The Boswell Sisters - Heebie Jeebies

 

[habberdasher]

"It Had to Be You" Priscilla Lane

I've looked around, and kind find a purchasable or downloadable copy of Priscilla Lane's version of "It Had to be You" from the 1939 movie, "The Roaring Twenties". Hers is my favorite and only truly likable version of the composition. Anyone here know of a source of it?

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"A Letter From The Front" an episode of Hinge & Bracket

 

[kamikat]

Movits!!! An interesting Swedish band whose music is a blend of rap and swing. I first heard them on the Colbert Report and am now totally obsessed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag5kWN_q3iI

 

[Fletch]

oooh, Isham Jones. Talk about a Legend!

A legend that has been mostly lost to time, I'm afraid. Jones was a dark personality, hated celebrity, barely tolerated publicity. Once he left the band biz, it was only a matter of time before he was forgotten. Can one be an ex-legend?

I'm listening to Gus Arnheim and his Orchestra, trying to pretend that I'm knocking back a Knickerbocker at the Ambassador.

Knickerbocker-knockerbacker, eh? lol Listening to the Crosby sides, the earlier, Columbo-MacMurray band, or the later one that always played too slow?

 

[kittypackard]

A legend that has been mostly lost to time, I'm afraid. Jones was a dark personality, hated celebrity, barely tolerated publicity. Once he left the band biz, it was only a matter of time before he was forgotten. Can one be an ex-legend?

Knickerbocker-knockerbacker, eh? lol Listening to the Crosby sides, the earlier, Columbo-MacMurray band, or the later one that always played too slow?

Well I have to admit I don't know a thing about Isham Jones' personal life-- but the music he made for Brunswick is a very important piece in the fabric of 20s dance music. The way you describe it, it seems that he personally saw to his own obscurity--which is a shame because those recordings are amongst the best of their kind.

The Arnheim album that I've got is a compilation album and features Russ Columbo as well as Crosby at the cusp of his Paul Whiteman years. It's chock-a-block full of toe-tapping tracks like A Peach of a Pair and I'm Gonna Get You recorded from '28 through '33.

LOTS of fun!

(Just bought Abe Lyman and his California Orchestra from Amazon and am eagerly awaiting its arrival ... )

 

[GoldenEraFan]

Though I'm a huge fan of Spike Jones, I like this version of "Little Bo Peep Lost Her Jeep" by Horace Heidt better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8p-WL0DUxQ

 

[kittypackard]

currently listening to Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang.

Life can be beautiful.

 

[Fletch]

Oh yeah.

Now playing: My Galveston Gal, by the Joe Haymes Orchestra in 1933, the last record date for this edition of the Haymes dynasty.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Tubby The Tuba" by Danny Kaye, Partick Cordia show, playing on Capitol FM -

 

[J.L. Picard]

so beautiful...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk-QVihbWro

Movits!!! An interesting Swedish band whose music is a blend of rap and swing. I first heard them on the Colbert Report and am now totally obsessed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag5kWN_q3iI

Lady H,

Thank you. I had totally forgotten I J!! Un talent fouuuuuu

Kamikat,

Un grand merci!! Thank you for bringing to us this interesting group. A little surprising at first, but it really grows on you. As usual, our Skandinavian neighbors bring a lot of talent to the table.

 

[olive bleu]

cleaning up the den at the moment and tuned into http://www.dismuke.org/radio/
and at the moment listening to Ruth Etting - Hello, Baby!

 

[Fletch]

meatbox

Yours Truly Is Truly Yours, Ray Noble & Al Bowlly, 1936.

 

[Jack R.]

Here They Come-Ten Years After

 

[Wally_Hood]

Vintage, But In A Different Sense of Vintage

Tom Waits, Potter's Field (should only be listened to after eleven pm), and Emotional Weather Report.

Lou Reed, Sweet Jane, from the Rock and Roll Animal live album. I paid to download the whole album because that was the only way to get that one song.

Voyage of the Scarlet Queen, The White Cargo and Ah Sin.

 

[kittypackard]

Now playing: My Galveston Gal, by the Joe Haymes Orchestra in 1933, the last record date for this edition of the Haymes dynasty.

You, sir, are one swell fella!!

 

[John in Covina]

Tom Waits, Potter's Field (should only be listened to after eleven pm), and Emotional Weather Report.

Lou Reed, Sweet Jane, from the Rock and Roll Animal live album. I paid to download the whole album because that was the only way to get that one song.

I was listening to a Best of Tom Waits called Used Songs this weekend.

Lou Reed RNRA is a great live album I like the tune Heroin from that too.

Just finished the Upgraded version of the CD "Time and A Word" from YES.