What are you listening to?

[Fletch]

She thinks he looks like Douglas Fairbanks
Although he has been circumcised

You sure you heard that right?

 

[Fletch]

Poddings al fresco

...out back with an adult bevvy, milan straw and some (I think) rather dapper linen shorts.

Out of the Night - Ted Weems & Ork, 1934. One of the more haunting theme songs of the day, the more so for being totally uncharacteristic of Weems, with its piano flourish, whispering subtoned clarinet and vibraharp fill-ins. Elmo Tanner's blue-ribbon whistling and the community-sing tones of the ensemble remind us whose band we're listening to.

Highway to Heaven - Ben Bernie & Ork, 1930. This tune just has to be from one of those please-speak-directly-into-the-potted-plant early talkie musicals; it has that kind of sunny inanity. The Lads give it plenty of beat, including baritonist Len Kavash and his slap tongue act. "Ol' Len's gone to the city." Probably for a new box of reeds.

Just A Gigolo - Raymond Scott and His New Orchestra, 1939. They used to call this "the push-button band," and its rendition of the old continental hit is altogether too bouncy and streamlined, as if that old hero-of-the-war had put five bucks down on a double-breasted tux and a new toupée at Macy*s and started maître d'ing it at the French Line Pavilion at the World's Fair. Il faut manger.

 

[Chas]

Lester Young, Oscar Peterson and Barney Kessel. This Wonderful album.

 

[carouselvic]

Telluride Bluegrass Festival

http://www.koto.org/

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to try and squeeze one more cup out of yesterday's tea bag by ---

Starting off in 1929 with the High Hatters, Leonard Joy's Victor studio group, and a great tune from "John Murray Anderson's Almanac," one of the classiest revues on Broadway at the moment, "I May Be Wrong But I Think You're Wonderful." Frank Luther confesses in the vocal that all of his shirts are unsightly and all of his ties are a crime. Pity there was no Fedora Lounge then.

Next, following a commercial for Post's Raisin Bran -- "cereal and fruit in one package!" -- it's ahead to 1930 with the Manhattan Entertainers and a cute "wah wah wah wah" version of "Would You Like To Take A Walk?" The Entertainers are actually yet another version of the Grey Gull studio band, with Andy Sanella and a bunch of guys who never got closer to Manhattan than the Boston Post Road.

 

[Fletch]

Wha?

I think you'll find that not just Andy Sannella, but his hot-trumpeting pal Mike Mosiello, were pretty busy in the New York studios - both featuring prominently in, of all groups, The High Hatters!

 

[Wally_Hood]

Finished Surf Guitar 101 podcast, and started on Garagepunk Surfcast podcast. Good obscure stuff, but some explict lyrics unexpectedly.

 

[Antje]

Stranger in the crowd, Elvis Presley

 

[WH1]

Gustav Holst, The Planets. It is a grand piece of music. I saw a segment on CBS Sunday Morning a few weeks ago about the Houston Symphony and NASA cooperating on a special presentaition incorporating Hubble Telescope photographs of space with this symphony.

Amazing in listening to you can hear so much of the music in science fiction/fantasy movies including Star Wars, Star Trek, Conan the Barbarian and ET: The Extra-Terrestrial is based upon this work. I had heard this before but never realized the extent which Williams and Palodouris to name a few were inspired by it.

 

[Fletch]

Attack of the Pod Person, Vol. XLVIII

Sittin' on a Backyard Fence - Paul Whiteman & Ork, 1933. Pops' streamlined depression outfit, sounding much bigger than it was in the very "live" Victor studio, featuring the quartet known to collectors as Not The Rhythm Boys. "Meow, meow, the kitty cat is cooin'." Well, what's it doin', cooin' or meowin'? Inquiring cats wanna know.

I Wanna Go Places (and Do Things) - Lud Gluskin's Ambassador Ork, 1929. A Dick Whiting tune presented in frenetically peppy Amerikanski style for European dancers (wonder if they knew the Balboa). Spencer Clark keeps up so impressively on bass sax, its as if he'd treated his pads with p!ss and vinegar.

Say When - Harry Rosenthal & Ork, 1934. Conductor Rosenthal - later one of Preston Sturges' character actors! - must have been looking to steal some of Richard Himber's velvet thunder. Borrowing the Benny Goodman personnel, he dropped BG and the trumpet section and added violins, oboe and harp! That's some bad band, Harry.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to sweat myself sick by --

Now playing, from 1931, one of the big hits from that year's edition of George White's Scandals, "The Thrill Is Gone," as rendered by Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees. The vocal was rendered in the original show by Everett Marshall, he of the Metropolitan Opera pedigree and the distasteful ultra-pencilled moustache, and with whom the thrill was gone the moment he appeared onstage.

Next, back to 1927 with Correll and Gosden and one of the original "my gal is an awful sight but I love her anyway" numbers, "Elsie Schultz-En-Heim." Includes what may be the earliest specific reference to a nose job in a popular song. And you thought twenties music was just endless variations on the moon in June.

 

[Fletch]

meatbox 'n martini

A little preprandial pop, both kinds.

Save It Pretty Mamma - Louis Armstrong Savoy Ballroom 5, 1928. Don Redman guest stars on a tune of his own devising; Pops is eloquent in few words.

Look What I've Got - Ted Fio Rito & Ork, 1933. Muzzy Marcellino scats it as Ted's flute virtuoso gets off some good stuff. Who was that cat?

Let's Not and Say We Did - Slatz Randall & Ork, 1930. Minneapolis' finest with a happy thought put over by Joe Roberts, the genius behind "Skirts." (That's a song.)

 

[Touchofevil]

Jackie Wilson "Reet Petite:The Original Recordings."
Good stuff for a Sunday or any day for that matter!

 

[Chas]

Lester Young. Complete Aladdin Recordings.

 

[Son_of_Atropos]

Lovage: To Catch a Thief

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2c2aa_GMVA&feature=related

 

[Annichen]

Brahms - Piano concerto n°2.

Oh sweet heavens:eusa_clap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKTkByq2eE

 

[Antje]

Pink Flamingo Danny Vera

 

[Mario]

Hank Williams - Alone & Forsaken

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Townes Van Zandt - Waiting Around To Die

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Townes Van Zandt - Lungs

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Last year, Steave Earle recorded a two-disc set with Townes Van Zandt covers which is absolutely great. Especially his version of 'Lungs' is a killer!

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to bitterly resent having to go on a diet by --

Starting off in 1934 with the Casa Loma Orchestra and Pee Wee Hunt squinting and grinning his way thru "You're A Builder Upper." Like a lot of the Casa Loma stuff of the moment, the arrangement sounds at least three years ahead of its time.

Next, staying in 1934 as Miss Ethel Waters performs "Miss Otis Regrets," the only comedy song ever written about a violent mob hanging a very proper society lady turned murderess. That Cole Porter was such a wag.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The opening title sequences from Richard III (1995)

The lyrics to the song are from a sonnet by Shakespeare's contemporary Christopher Marlowe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5-SUDrHMU&feature=related