What are you listening to?

[anon`]

Heidevolk - Het bier zal weer vloeien

 

[Fletch]

Whiteman's New Tiger Rag has been my worst case of earworm infestation in quite awhile - now going into its 6th straight day.

The double tonguing saxophone chorus (about 55 seconds in) is the bugaboo. I've been trying to do that technique for 25 years now. The key to it is that there is no key: you learn by banging your head on it till you're sick. But I keep holding out for some trick that will give me a clue. I probably will for another 25 years.

 

[DC3]

Right now I'm listening to a community radio station here in the SF Bay area. KCEA 89.1. Playing big band music all the time. Low power, but is very receivable.

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

"Slow Boat to China" by Si Zentner.

 

[Shangas]

Ray Noble and His Orchestra - "Butterflies in the Rain" (Rec. 1933).

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to decide that today's the day to put up the storm windows by..

Now playing, it's 1932 with Joe Rines and his Orchestra, and his big hit song "Underneath The Harlem Moon." Joe was a proper Bostonian who likely never set foot in Harlem in his life, and the vocalist sounds like Sid Garry trying to sound like Eddie Cantor trying to sound like Cab Calloway, but it's still an irresistibly snappy record.

Next, following a commercial for Ironized Yeast ("I don't know how her husband puts up with her, the way she mopes around"), it's ahead to 1934 and one of the most endearingly dopey pop tunes of the time, "I Wish That I Were Twins," as swung out by Henry "Red" Allen and his Orchestra. "You great big babykins" indeed.

 

[Fletch]

Ray Noble and His Orchestra - "Butterflies in the Rain" (Rec. 1933).

Be careful of that one. It'll turn you into a flibbertigibbet.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"NBC Sunday night spectacular, "The Big Show" with the Glamorous, unpredictable, Tallulah Bankhead", with special guests Celeste Holm, and Billie Eckstein"

Sponsored by Chesterfield?

Celeste still going strong!!

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to wait for the heavy duty headache pills to work by --

First up, Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees in 1932 with the exotic instrumental "Maori," a tune with nothing whatsoever to do with New Zealand tribal tattoos. Rather, it's an obscure tango from 1916 given a new arrangement and a sax solo by Rudy himself, and very often used as a musical bridge between acts on the Fleischmann's Yeast Hour.

Next, Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and his Orchestra in 1936 and "The Way You Look Tonight." An extraordinary concatenation of vocalist, musicians, and song -- quite possibly the most perfect popular recording of the 1930s.

 

[analiebe]

blues on my ceiling... running down the walls

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Now we are talkin'.... Recorded 1936

Robert Johnson "Come On In My Kitchen"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Dv7QQ_JvI

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Cry Cry Cry- Bobby 'Blue' Bland

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Saucey Florence Desmond, London, in 1941, during the darkest days of "The Blitz"

THE DEEPEST SHELTER IN TOWN
(Jones)

Florence Desmond


Don't run away mister
Oh, stay and play mister
Don't worry if you hear the sirens go
Though I'm not a lady of the highest virtue
I wouldn't dream of letting anything hurt you
And so before you go, I think you ought to know

I've got a cosy flat, there's a lace for your hat
I wear a pink chiffon négligé gown
And do I know my stuff, but if that's not enough
I've got the deepest shelter in town.

I've got a room for two, a radio that's new,
An alarm clock that won't let you down,
And I've got central heat, but to make it complete,
I've got the deepest shelter in town.

Every modern comfort I can just guarantee
If you hear the siren call then it's probably me

And, sweetie, to revert, I'll keep you on the alert
I won't even be wearing a frown
So you can hang around here until the all clear
In the deepest shelter in town.

Now honey, I don't sing of an Anderson thing
Climbing in one you look like a clown
But if you came here to see, why Sir John would agree
I've got the deepest shelter in town.

Now Mr. Morrison says he's getting things done,
And he's a man of the greatest renown,
But before it gets wrecked, I hope you'll come and inspect
The deepest shelter in town.

Now I was one of the first to clear my attic of junk,
But when it comes to shelters nowadays it's all bunk.

So honey, don't get scared, it's there to be shared
And you'll feel like a king with a crown
So please don't be mean, better men than you have been
In the deepest shelter,
The neatest shelter,
The deepest shelter in town.

emi cd 1662952

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Robert Johnson - Love In Vain 1937

& 78rpm single release (Vocalion 04630)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ks...02486AC2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=34

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

Bruce Cockburn Speechless

It aint Golden Age but anythng this guy does is a classic.
And man can he play guitar:

 

[analiebe]

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Country Blues Recorded by Muddy Waters in 1941.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgW9HEUL_Qk

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

"Where or When", Sammy Davis Jr.

(Just home from the final farewell of my favorite (only) little art deco neighborhood bar, that closed suddenly after 11 years.)

 

[Carlisle Blues]

GIMME A PIGFOOT by Bessie Smith 1933

Missing my days in Harlem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBzkXFFcBik

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

Frank doing "Days of Wine and Roses."