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What are you listening to?

AmateisGal

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shopgirl61 said:
How do I go about finding a radio station that plays the classics?
either AM or FM

I use my Windows Media Player and click on the Internet Radio. TONS of online radio stations there! (and all free!)
 

Fletch

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Apple Blossoms (1929), by the Joe Venuti Blue Five.
 

Fletch

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Maple Leaf Rag (1906), by the U.S. Marine Band, who snap it out handsomely indeed.

This is a rare disc, and not just because of its age. Ragtime wasn't welcome in most homes a century ago.
It was all right to hear in a show or concert, but not in the parlor - or anywhere people might be tempted to dance! [bad]
 

Fletch

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I Can't Believe It's True, a great Isham Jones not-quite-hit of My Favorite Year, 1932.
Played by Russ Carlson's Crown Record ork, a 10 or 11pc "little big band" with a very big sound.
Singing saxophonist Harold van Emburgh puts it over. (I think he was the guy they called when they couldn't get Elmer Feldkamp.)
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LizzieMaine

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78s to prepare for a double root-canal in a few hours by --

Starting off in 1931 with Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees with one of the hits from "George White's Scandals," "The Thrill Is Gone." You ain't just singing thru your nose on that one, mister.

Next, ahead to 1937 with Fred Astaire and Johnny Green's Orchestra, and the most appropriate possible song for the day, "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off."
 

Fletch

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Just a little Hawaiian

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The break-thru hit that brought back the "sound of the islands" in 1934, in a version you're not likely to know about - by Norman Price's Peerless Trio, whose only record date this was. Just 3 boys and a guitar.
 

Carlisle Blues

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I am loving this song. I will try to get the music and cover it..:)


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWz5LbRyRHw&feature=related
 

Carlisle Blues

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McKinney's Cotton Pickers; George Thomas, vocal 1930
This was the band's theme song. In the '20s and '30s, racial segregation permeated all aspects of American society, including the music and recording industries. While the more famous black bands frequently performed for white-only audiences, the reverse was not the case. For jazz fans, the black bands of the era are often considered superior to the white and, as a result, their records are much more sought after and difficult to find. By the mid-'30s, the color barrier began to slowly fall when Benny Goodman hired black musicians such as Teddy Wilson and Fletcher Henderson - whose arrangements were largely responsible for Goodman's meteoric rise to being the "King of Swing."

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Sarge

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I am listening to "What Did You Put In That Kiss" by Betty Hutton. Catchy little tune.:D

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