What are you listening to?

[BinkieBaumont]

"The Lux Radio Version of "The Man Who Came To Dinner" the radio version has Clifton Webb ( So much more suitable) and A Young Lucile Ball, in the role of Miss Cuttlet? the Secretary

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[Chas]

Classic Siouxsie.
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[Mario]

Sweet. I still have very fond memories of Siouxsie from way back when. :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Fletch]

One-Shot Romantic Baritones

There was a tragic oversupply of good singers in the 30s. These three probably wound up packing groceries or selling neckties; in any case, music history says no more about them. Getting on a record really didn't lead anywhere then, and despite the crooner fad, a tenor voice still had the best shot at a radio career.

Gene Glennan - One Little Kiss, Ted Weems Ork., 1934
Bud Struck - Love Is A Dream, Gus Arnheim Ork., 1933
Hugh Grant - So Lovely and So Sweet, Raymond Paige Ork., 1935

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to share a hunk of matzo with my cat by --

Starting off in 1936 with Chick Webb and his Orchestra and a perky teenager named Ella Fitzgerald with "You Hit The Spot." Not the most imaginative arrangement ever put together -- if you didn't look at the label, you'd think Ella was singing with George Hall.

Next, strictly high class with Johnny Green and his Orchestra in 1935, with George Bueler (speaking of one-shot baritones) vocalizing "About A Quarter To Nine." Your watch is a little slow,buddie -- I got ten past.

 

[Fletch]

Beuler?...Beuuuuuuler?...

Your radar seems a little off today, Liz. That's Jimmy Farrell, who went on to at least one Ziegfeld Follies before disappearing. George Beuler also turns up on a Leo Reisman side or two.

A real one-shotter, despite being fairly well known in musical comedy, was Edward Nell Jr., who got to do exactly one side with Reisman in '33. He was a light classical singer, with that old school, 100 per cent diction and molto vibrato. Much later, Ed was a coworker of my parents' at the Naval Photographic Center in Washington.

Beuler and Nell both appeared in daytime radio schedules in mid '30s New York – always as "Baritone" or "Songs."

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Patrick Cordia, plays three hours of Nostalgia between 12.00 noon and 3.00 pm, they are playing, an edition of "Australian Hit Parade" a recording from 1940, lots of jolly wartime tunes."

http://www.capitalcommunityradio.com/

 

[imported_miss_molly]

"Fifty Fats Waller Classics".....oh how I wish I was able to play piano like that!

 

[Antje]

Could it be magic, the Pupinni sisters

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to curse my email by ...

Starting off in 1931 with Bert Lown and his Orchestra and a spirited bit of wakeup in "Here Comes The Sun," with an equally jaunty male trio on the vocal. "Half the battle is won" indeed.

Next, following a commercial for Pall Malls -- it's Modern Design that makes the difference! -- it's ahead to 1946 and one of the first 78s I ever bought, featuring Kay Kyser and his Orchestra and that ode to the ever-popular central American vacation spot "Managua, Nicaragua," with Gloria Wood and the Campus Kids going on about coffee and bananas and the temperature's hot. And no Sandinistas.

 

[Antje]

One track mind, Sue Moreno

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to eat a fried chicken supper by ---

Starting off in 1934 with a nifty royal blue Columbia by Ben Pollack and his Orchestra, with Doris Robbins crooning "I've Got A Warm Spot In My Heart For You." Too many people only know Pollack because of the jazzmen who once passed thru his employ, but he had a fine dance band with a lovely feel for ballads.

Next, following a brief pause to fight off an attack by a chicken-stealing feline, it's Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees in 1930 raising a stein to dear old Maine. Or "Camp Orono" as it's known these days. Historic note of no conceivable interest to anyone but me: the lyricist of the "Stein Song," Lincoln Colcord, lived in my home town. And is still the most famous person to have come from there.

 

[Wally_Hood]

The Surf Guitar 101 podcast. Not vintage, but retro. All surf band instrumentals (so far). Enough reverb to fill the Grand Canyon. Great stuff...

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Australian Husband & Wife "Tea Rose Duo"

http://www.tearoseduo.com.au/

 

[Shangas]

Bing Crosby - "Brother Can you Spare a Dime?"

 

[Mario]

Bing Crosby - "Brother Can you Spare a Dime?"

Tom Waits - "Brother Can you Spare a Dime?" :whip:

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[LizzieMaine]

78s to try to figure out that dream I just had by --

Starting off in 1935 with Benny Goodman and his Orchestra and a definitive Helen Ward vocal on "The Dixieland Band." "Apoplexy got 'em, and they went to the Lord." Yeah, I know how that is.

Next, back to 1930 with Red Nichols and his Five Pennies and a peppy rendition of "Blue Again" featuring Dick Robertson on the vocal. I like the Duke Ellington/Sid Garry version better, just for its delightful bizarreness, but this one will certainly get you moving.

 

[Sarge]

Benny Goodman and his Orchestra "When Buddha Smiles."

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[Chas]

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[Sarge]

Patti Page - "Old Cape Cod"

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