What are you listening to?

[Diamondback]

More John Barry--his later Bond scores. Current track being the opener (not to be confused with the pre-titles teaser with the minijet*) from Octopussy...
*Trust me, those birds are tiny! I sat in one in a museum, and getting me out was like trying to pull a large Spam out of a small can and leave both in one piece...
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Now playing: John Barry - 009 Gets The Knife And Gobinda Attacks
via FoxyTunes

 

[Shangas]

I'm listening to a tune that should be very familiar to anyone who grew up watching Warner Brothers cartoons...

Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" (1937).

 

[THe Conductor]

Canadian Railway Trilogy

Crossroads

Both by Gordon Lightfoot

 

[C-dot]

Temptation - Artie Shaw
I Surrender, Dear - Woody Herman

Sends shivers down my spine

 

[tbrunke]

Radio Dismuke:

Six Jumping Jacks - I'm Gonna Wit the Guy Wot Brung Me

 

[HodgePodge]

currently listening to Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang.

Life can be beautiful.

Those two scare me. I thought it would be neat to try to learn a song by them. About six bars of sheet music later I realized that wasn't a throne I would be ascending to in this lifetime, or next, or possibly the one after that either.


Now Playing:

Duke Ellington - Harlem Airshaft

 

[Shangas]

Three Keys - "Oh, By Jingo!" (Rec. 1933)

 

[Atticus Finch]

Just downloaded 25 Beach music tunes to my Ipod. Anybody here know what I mean when I say "Beach Music"?

AF

 

[anon`]

Eluveitie - Your Gaulish War

 

[Shangas]

The Louisianna Sugar Babes - "Persian Rug" (Rec. 1928).

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

"There's Good Blues Tonight" by Doris Day

(Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6pytNvlLI0)

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Hope everyone's well,
- CH

 

[Shangas]

Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra - "Happy Feet" (Rec. 1930).

 

[Fletch]

Not listening

I'm examining my YouTube favorites list - where I get a fair bit of my music lately - and trying to figure out what it says about me to strangers looking in.

 

[Lady Day]

I woke up with a craving to listen to 'Nobody but Me' by Lou Rawls, but then I just decided to finish the rest of the album

LD

 

[Jack R.]

City of Blinding Lights-U2

 

[THe Conductor]

The Weight - Covered by Gillian Welch and Old Crow Medicine Show

 

[anon`]

Schelmish - Chaos

 

[Shangas]

Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - "Riffin' at the Ritz" (Rec. 1936).

This is one of the tunes responsible for me falling in love with interwar jazz-music.

 

[Fletch]

Just downloaded 25 Beach music tunes to my Ipod. Anybody here know what I mean when I say "Beach Music"?

Yes, but only because I'm a self-taught musicologist.

What makes beach music, and why is it only in your part of the country? (Most beach regions don't have their own music, and if they do, it's not called "beach.") What are the characteristics of the style? How is the music enjoyed, and how are the beaches enjoyed?

 

[hailey greenhat]

Michael Buble's rendition of I Can't Help Falling in Love (with You)
I love his remakes, he good.