What are you listening to?

[LizzieMaine]

78s to wake up from a surrealist dream by --

Starting off in 1935 with Harry Roy and his Mayfair Orchestra and Bill Currie crooning "Isn't This A Lovely Day." Well, it's too early to tell, but so far I ain't optimistic.

Next, still in 1935 with Fats Waller and his Rhythm and a lovely version of "Louisiana Fairy Tale." Contrary to popular belief, Fats didn't send up *every* sweet song he did.

 

[Edward]

Love Tatoo, Imelda May

Crackin' album. The second is in the can, too - can't wait to hear it. Think it's out in September. The new material just keeps getting stronger....

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

 

[Antje]

Crackin' album. The second is in the can, too - can't wait to hear it. Think it's out in September. The new material just keeps getting stronger....

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_NkJwFucnM[/YOUTUBE]

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

I didn't know she had a new album coming out, I'm looking forward to it already, she is pretty amazing

 

[Fletch]

Did My Heart Beat? - Geo. Hall & Hotel Taft Ork, 1933. Enjoyable patter song between effervescent Loretta Lee and evanescent Barry Wells. But I'd recommend Jan Garber's version if you just want to dance, and have the six bits for the Victor disc.

Sugar Foot Stomp - (Fletcher Henderson's) Connie's Inn Ork, 1931. For my money this is the freshest of the 4 renditions they cut that year. I learned Coleman Hawkins' "play that thing" solo by heart as a young pup and still practice it.

Not For Sale - Joe Haymes & Ork, 1934. Interesting transcription-only original by Joe, which sounds for all the world like a soft-shoe dance number without the breaks.

I've Been So Blue - Gus Deloof & His Racketeers, 1931. Belgian trumpeter-leader features his Bix-like tone on a rather elegiac slow fox trot. Jean Robert, one of that country's great reed men, gets off an effective bass sax solo.

 

[Rundquist]

I can't get enough of Georgie Fame lately.

Here he is on Willie Nelson's Funny How Time Slips Away.
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Killing Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (probably better than the original).
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Madness
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Moody's Mood For Love
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Sweet Thing
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[BinkieBaumont]

"Monsieur DuPont"

"In the 1960's an era of big teased hair, high heels, and fussy frocks, Sandie Shaw stood out with her long straight hair, simple dresses and bare feet!"

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"Speaking of "Top of The Pops" who can forget "Pans People"

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[HadleyH]

Hadley, welcome back! And what a great pick for a Jones record. Got that Big Beat.

And isn't that pic great...it's from about 1923. Have a copy print of it myself someplace.

Here's Isham at about that same time, with his burnished gold-plated Conn tenor sax and Bakelite mouthpiece. He really was a good player - altho he wasn't heard much after the mid 20s. He helped make the tenor a solo voice in sweet music just as Coleman Hawkins did in jazz.

Thank you Fletch! That's a great photo of Isham Jones!

I managed to find another photo of him, this one may be taken in 1922, about the same time as the NYC Brunswick recording session. I.J is standing at the left holding saxophone.

 

[Chas]

Teddy Wilson's 1938 recordings with Nan Wynn and Billie Holiday, Ben Webster, Benny Carter, Lester Young, Cozy Cole, Freddy Green et. al.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to be blinded by the unaccustomed sunshine by --

Starting off in 1928 with Harry Reser's Syncopators and Tom Stacks on the vocal for a pretty darn definitive version of one of the definitive songs of the twenties, "Crazy Rhythm". Nice kazoo/comb-and-tissue-paper/dismounted- trumpet-mouthpiece solo interpolated into the vocal --- ra ta ta ta!

Next, ahead to 1936 with Johnny Hamp and his Orchestra and a John McAfee vocal on "Never Should Have Told You." This isn't Johnny Hamp and his razz-ma-tazz Kentucky Serenaders of a few years earlier, this is Johnny Hamp trying very hard to be a low-rent Shep Fields, only without the soda straw. Why the folks at Bluebird would think they needed a low-rent Shep Fields when they already had the genuine article is a question without an answer.

 

[Fletch]

Hadley thanks for another great pic. I do believe that was from the same session as the portrait - Isham is wearing the same clothes and the backdrop is the same. You're right, this was the 1922 band of 9 pieces, taken during a trip to New York.

Meanwhile, back at the Pod:

Goodbye Blues - Roane's Pennsylvanians (from Lowell, Massachusetts), 1932. Like Waring's, Roane's was a big band-cum-glee club. Here they do pleasingly by a theme-songy melody featuring Cliff Nazarro (later a comic actor of some small renown) and a buzzy-voiced scat singer known only as "Snowball."

Gilded Kisses - Alphonso Trent & Ork, 1928. A real show-off of an arrangement on a would-be pop tune penned by the band's trombonist, Snub Mosley. Unfortunately his singular solo style is not heard - he played as if ferrets had crawled up his bell. Stuff Smith gets off on the fiddle, however.

Sweet Jennie Lee! - Isham Jones' Ork, 1930. Jones was still with Brunswick, now with an organization almost twice the size of 1922's. That "!" is apt - this is a performance that crackles with energy and chugs with momentum. Eddie Stone, "the human megaphone," enthuses the lyric.

 

[Lady Day]

http://www.kcea.org/

'KCEA home of the big bands'

LD

 

[Chas]

The greatest band ever. The Duke Ellington orchestra. Of any era.

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[LizzieMaine]

78s to try to wake up enough to go to the dentist by --

Starting off in 1936 with Eddy Duchin and his Orchestra and Stanley Worth singing the praises of a dopey-walking, double-talking, vacant-staring, fuzzy-headed uke player from Dubuque in "I Go For That." Sounds like a real catch.

Next, ahead to 1939 with Abe Lyman and his Californians, as Rose Blane bellows out "Good Morning." Ah, shaddup.

 

[Mario]

Chansons from the 1930's with the wonderful Rina Ketty

Even though she had one particulary huge success with J'attendrai in 1939, she was largely forgotten after WWII.
I really love the tango influences she often incorporated into heir songs. Beautifuly stuff!

L'amour que j'avais pour toi

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Tout s'efface

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[Jack Scorpion]

Scott Walker - Scott 4
Ute Lemper - Punishing Kiss
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

A lot of the other kind of crooning these days.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Found the Henry Mancini Soundtrack to the 1982 Movie, Victor/Victoria for $12.00 (31 tracks)

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"Lovely Opening titles"

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[LizzieMaine]

78s to write press releases by --

Starting off in 1935 with George Hall and his Taft Hotel Orchestra and a Johnny Mercer excursion into the cottony realm of cutie-pie duets, "I Never Saw A Better Night." Sonny Schuyler and Dolly Dawn offer an immensely entertaining turn on the vocal. Watch it, Sonny, she's only sixteen.

Next, following a commercial for Kirkman's Soap Flakes With a Pretty Hankie Right Inside The Box, it's Richard Himber and his Ritz-Carlton Orchestra in 1934, and a bit of analysis from Joey Nash with "It's Psychological." Interesting tidbit: while Joey might seem like the whitebreadest of whitebready romantic tenors, he was actually a close friend and drinking buddy of Fats Waller. One never knows, do one?

 

[Fletch]

There was a little bit of rye in that white bread- Joseph Nassberg was his birth name. He had a brother, Jules, and both he and Joey played sax in the Greenwich Village Inn orchestra during the mid '20s (made platters too). Jules later started an insurance agency for musicians.

 

[Lillemor]

I prefer Roy Orbison on Unchained Melody and Patsy Cline on True Love but I quite like Ricky Nelson on both too.

Ricky Nelson - That's All. I really like him on this one. Heard him sing some country songs too. His cover of Fools Rush In isn't bad but I prefer Patti Page or Peggy Lee on that one, well probably Patti Page the most. It's not a contest, no one's taste is better than anyone else's and at times it's not a matter of preference between artists, I can appreciate different artists covers of the same song for different reasons. Gosh, I hate arguing the last opinion on youtube!

These days, I actually prefer Frankie Sardo on Dream Lover over Bobby Darin but I don't like Dion Dimucci's cover of the same song even though he's one of my all time favorite musicians and singers because of the feeling and sometimes attitude he ads to everything he covers. A pretty voice alone usually won't impress me much. I just think the light feel on Dream Lover on Sardo's cover is cute and different. He doesn't to octave changes very well. He's more tolerable with his voice is light and soft. Okay, I'm being nerdy.

Right now - Frankie Sardo 'I'm Sitting At Home' , going in to 'When The Bells Stop Ringing', followed by 'Class Room', 'Fake Out', and probably 'Dream Lover' again.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Eddie Cantor -- No No Nora (1923)
Columbia A-3964

Lyrics
In the apartment above me
There is the lovingest pair
I don't know what she has to be jealous of
He has the face that just a mother could love

And still I know she's always worrying
Some girl will steal her prize away
She's always asking if there's somebody else
I guess its just to hear him say

No No Nora, nobody but you, dear
You know, Nora, you're truly as true, dear
When you accuse of me of flirting
I wouldn't, I couldn't, I love you so

I have chances, too many to mention
Never give them a bit of attention
And would I trade you for Venus?
No No, Nora, No No!

She has a lot of detectives
Who check him up every day
She's read about those men who lead double lives
She's making sure she won't be one of those wives

She thinks he looks like Douglas Fairbanks
Although he has been circumcised
A hundred times a day she calls on the phone
And every time she does he sighs

No No Nora, nobody but you, dear
You know, Nora, that I stick like glue, dear
And when you're speaking of cheating
I wouldn't, I couldn't, I love you so.

I see eyes and a whole of perfection
But I look in another direction
And do I care for the Follies?
No No, Nora, No No!

I see eyes and a whole of perfection
But I always look in another direction
And would I fall for Peggy Hopkins?
No No, Nora, No No!