What are you listening to?

[LizzieMaine]

78s to try and tidy my office by --

Now playing, from 1930, it's Roy Shield and the Victor Hollywood Orchestra with "Sing Song Girl." James Blackstone does the vocal on a tune not calculated to make a positive contribution to Sino-American relations. Cute arrangement, though.

Next up, from the same year, Sam Lanin and his Orchestra with Scrappy Lambert vocalizing "Little White Lies."

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

"Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to marry...." in the coffee house.

 

[Fletch]

I want the real McCoy that is what really gives me pleasure, that is what I like best and ultimately that is what brings me closer to a long gone era that I love so much.

:eusa_clap I'm with you. (And Lizzie, and Vince Giordano, and Dean Mora, and...)

Maybe it comes down to what and how much of the era you love. Whether you're riding the peaks of glamorous high life...or seeking the roots of your people, place, and identity...or yearning to breathe in as much as possible of the Zeitgeist, mildewy and allergenic tho it may sometimes be.

On that note, a proper Tin Pan Alley theme with a local Cincinnati swing.
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[BinkieBaumont]

"Mario Harp Lorenzi Zing Went the strings of my Harp, a double CD from Frank Bristow's collection"

http://www.musicfromthepast.com/collection5.html

 

[Ethan Bentley]

Some Kenny Ball, some Louie Prima and I heard a David Rose track earlier that I hadn't heard for a while.

 

[Gene]

"Pistol packin' mama, lay your pistol down!"

 

[Carlisle Blues]

You Don't Know Me Ray Charles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5LwRinkJ0

Getting ready to do a cover. I hope I do not offend the purists..

Brother Ray has passed as we all will. Why on earth should I let a beautiful piece of music die with the man. It is one thing to revel in the past, but, it is quite another to try to live in it. Let the dead bury the dead. I choose to respect the originals, in doing so I cover their songs.

 

[Shangas]

"Where Do I Begin" (AKA - The theme from "Love Story"); performed by pianist Newell Oler.

 

[anon`]

Moonsorrow - Ukkosenjumalan Poika

 

[Doctor Strange]

Hey, that great song's been covered by dozens of people, including Ray himself: Eddy Arnold wrote it. You'll be in fine company!

(Personally, I really like the recording by Emmylou Harris.)

You Don't Know Me Ray Charles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5LwRinkJ0

Getting ready to do a cover. I hope I do not offend the purists..

Brother Ray has passed as we all will. Why on earth should I let a beautiful piece of music die with the man. It is one thing to revel in the past, but, it is quite another to try to live in it. Let the dead bury the dead. I choose to respect the originals, in doing so I cover their songs.

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

"Ain't No Flies On The Lamb Of God....." Sneaking a glimpse of "Bright Young Things" before heading out again.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Hey, that great song's been covered by dozens of people, including Ray himself: Eddy Arnold wrote it. You'll be in fine company!

(Personally, I really like the recording by Emmylou Harris.)

Thank you for the support...

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Norah Jones - Cold Cold Heart


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g35zS1tVO3o&feature=related

 

[SayCici]

All day, all night, Marianne..

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Norah Jones - The Story (My Blueberry Nights OST)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU2wn9L0DXc&feature=related

NORAH JONES - I've Got to See You Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geqmOTd2vvI&feature=related

Norah Jones - Lover Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmf6Oehm1OA&feature=related

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Mario "Harp" Lorenzi ......."Everything stops for Tea"

Ever so Smart/Stylish lyrics to rival Noel Coward or Cole Porter

EVERYTHING STOPS FOR TEA
Featured in Buchanan's 1935 comedy film, "Come Out Of The Pantry"
(Goodhart / Hoffman / Sigler)
Jack Buchanan


Every nation in creation has its favourite drink
France is famous for its wine, it's beer in Germany
Turkey has its coffee and they serve it blacker than ink
Russians go for vodka and England loves its tea

Oh, the factories may be roaring
With a boom-a-lacka, zoom-a-lacka, wee
But there isn't any roar when the clock strikes four
Everything stops for tea

Oh, a lawyer in the courtroom
In the middle of an alimony plea
Has to stop and help 'em pour when the clock strikes four
Everything stops for tea

It's a very good English custom
Though the weather be cold or hot
When you need a little pick-up, you'll find a little tea cup
Will always hit the spot

You remember Cleopatra
Had a date to meet Mark Anthony at three
When he came an hour late she said "You'll have to wait"
For everything stops for tea

Oh, they may be playing football
And the crowd is yelling "Kill the referee!"
But no matter what the score, when the clock strikes four
Everything stops for tea

Oh, the golfer may be golfing
And is just about to make a hole-in-three
But it always gets them sore when the clock yells "four!"
Everything stops for tea

It's a very good English custom
And a stimulant for the brain
When you feel a little weary, a cup'll make you cheery
And it's cheaper than champagne

Now I know just why Franz Schubert
Didn't finish his unfinished symphony
He might have written more but the clock struck four
And everything stops for tea

 

[Antje]

You Don't Know Me Ray Charles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5LwRinkJ0

Getting ready to do a cover. I hope I do not offend the purists..

Brother Ray has passed as we all will. Why on earth should I let a beautiful piece of music die with the man. It is one thing to revel in the past, but, it is quite another to try to live in it. Let the dead bury the dead. I choose to respect the originals, in doing so I cover their songs.

Great one,
I'm now listening to Slim Whitman, secret love

 

[Fletch]

EVERYTHING STOPS FOR TEA

Left one out...

Oh the fighting may be raging
In the trenches or a battleship at sea
But there isn't any war when the clock strikes four
Everything Stops For Tea

King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Normandy, D-Day

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Great one,
I'm now listening to Slim Whitman, secret love

Here is the link I just listened to it.... There was a television commercial years ago which stated that Ole Slim had more hits than the Beatles.


Who knows maybe he did, however, growing up in my area no one ever heard of Slim...lol lol lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V_xmYYUWCs

 

[Fletch]

Havin' 'em all day long

The Heebie Jeebies, that is...sang 'em aloud on my bicycle on campus to get people out of the way...even changed my signature to them.
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They did this number on at least 2 "Big Broadcasts" - the movie by that name, and the opening night of CBS Television in 1931.