What are you listening to?

[Wash In Lux]

78s to try and get up the nerve to call the endodontist by --

Starting off with an oddball hit from 1934, with Borah Minnevitch and his Harmonica Rascals squealing out "Chinatown My Chinatown." One of the earliest Decca releases, it was no doubt inspiration for thousands of desperate harmonicists trying to get on Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.

I've got some Vitaphones with Borah Minnevich. They're pretty goofy.

 

[Wash In Lux]

Just got a 2 disc set in the mail today of Webb Pierce - The Complete 4-Star & Pacemaker Recordings. 30 tracks of late 40's, early 50's honky tonkin' goodness!

 

[BellyTank]

Debasish Mukherjee- tabla virtuoso.


B
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[AmateisGal]

My Gene Krupa station on Pandora.

 

[Falconetti]

Anthony Newley's Aint it Funny..... beautiful song by one of my fave singers...

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to wonder if there's a convenient way to transfuse caffeine directly into my veins by --

Starting off with Big Hearted Arthur Askey himself, in 1940, with the ultimate brace-up-it's-the-Blitz song, "Bomb! Bomb! Get In Your Shelter!" "Get yourselves right under ground, when those Nazis fly around!" Yes sir!

Next, we slide smoothly back to 1930 with Gene Austin, and a very persuasive rendition of "Lies." Never trust a crooner.

 

[Wash In Lux]

So Lizzie, what IS the second coolest small town in America? For that matter, what's the first?

 

[LizzieMaine]

So Lizzie, what IS the second coolest small town in America? For that matter, what's the first?

http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-srv/coolestsmalltowns/


Those Owego people only won because they stuffed the ballot box. Bums.

 

[Hamilton_Honey]

What Goes Up Must Come Down (And Baby You've Been Flyin' Too High)

Les Brown and His Orchestra
Vocal refrain by Miriam Shaw

And the flips side...needs some serious cleaning.

 

[lolly_loisides]

The honeymoon is over - The Cruel Sea

 

[imported_miss_molly]

Fats Waller.

 

[Shangas]

Miss Molly, I love you already.

Bernie Cummins and His Orchestra - "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" (Rec. 1930)

*Foot-taps and nods along*

 

[Hamilton_Honey]

I should be eating corn pone with this...

78 on RCA Victor label

A - "Friendship" by Tommy Dorsey Family (Mountain Branch)

B - "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by the Hollywood Hillbillies with singing



So is anyone familiar with these? I get the idea they might be sort of Tongue-in-cheek spoofs playing off the country/hillbilly fad, but am not having any luck yet with a google search.

thanks y'all

 

[HadleyH]

This time I'm listening to my favorite dance band from the 20s and 30s: Isham Jones , the song "What's the Use" 1930, with Frank Sylvano as vocalist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai7ff5FdUUc

 

[Wally_Hood]

http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-srv/coolestsmalltowns/


Those Owego people only won because they stuffed the ballot box. Bums.

Rockland, Maine... reminds me of the line "...from the rock-ribbed coasts of Maine..."

But I may have jumbled it up a bit.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Ringworld, by Larry Niven, on cassette, purchased from the local library for fifty cents. I'd heard so much about it growing up, this is probably the only way to get to "read" it.

 

[LadyStardust]

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For only about the 100th time, but it never gets old.

Oh, and Tchaikovsky's "Seasons".

 

[Shangas]

Got a playlist of 20s, 30s and 40s songs on Winamp at the moment. Current track is...

Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - "Anything Goes" (Rec. 1934)

 

[Carlisle Blues]

"I'll See You in My Dreams" (Isham Jones, 1924)





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhAGfp4DIbY&feature=related

 

[Shangas]

Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - "My Blue Heaven".