What are you listening to?

[Chas]

One of my favorite bands, favorite arranger and on my favorite record label. I dearly wish they would publish again. Very important stuff.

But currently I'm listening to :

Amazing lineup on this set of tracks, Nat King Cole on piano, Red Callender, Dodo Mamarosa etc.

"It's Better To Give Than Receive" with Helen Humes on vocals.

 

[Chas]

sorry. double post.

 

[Nathan Dodge]

John Barry- Diamonds are Forever soundtrack.

 

[Chas]

Mood music for cooking up my New Orleans Red Beans & Rice

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[Fletch]

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (o' Mine) - Bud Freeman & Ork, 1928. Bud got his first record date as leader (probably just as "name") only 4 months after he made his first record as sideman, still nailing down his slippery arpeggiated style. That amiable putz, Red McKenzie, sings.

By Heck - Dorsey Brothers Ork., 1933. TD, JD, Berigan, Binyon, McGrath, McDonough, and Morehouse...coulda called 'em the Irish All-Stars, except for that Bernstein fella on bass. The Brunswicks they did have a chummy, easy feel - these guys didn't just play together, they drank together. (I'm not sure they did anything else.)

Sing Another Chorus, Please - Ben Selvin & Ork, 1931. The Columbia house musickers had a way of getting crisply and pleasantly to the point, letting the song sell itself. Eddie Walters and his ukulele do the heavy work on a song by West Coast leader Earl Burtnett. "I know some guy just wrote those words to make some dough," but the rest is pure pleasure.

Fancy Meeting You - Count Basie & Ork, 1941. Unusually restrained for CB, but notable for good singing by Earle Warren, the lead saxman (who didn't do this often). Tune penned by Dick Kollmar, probably just after breakfast with Dorothy Kilgallen.

Oh! Lizzie - University Six, 1927. The Varsity Eight Minus Two, or Goofus Five Plus One if you prefer, in an unusually lifelike acoustic discing. No resemblance to our own 78s-To-Fill-In-The-Blank-By lady intended or inferred unless she wants to, of course.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to dine on cornflakes and skim milk by --

Starting off in 1935 with Fats Waller and his Rhythm -- augmented for the occasion -- and a delightfully revolting novelty, "Fat and Greasy." Whooo, somebody open the window.

Next, staying in 1935 for a tune from the swellest Cole Porter musical you never heard of, "Jubilee," as Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra perform "Why Shouldn't I?" A lovely Kay Weber vocal on this one, from the first recording session by the JD band under its own name. Porter gets extra thirties style points for a lyrical mention of Peggy Joyce, the Anna Nicole of the Golden Era.

 

[Rundquist]

Mood music for cooking up my New Orleans Red Beans & Rice

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Love that stuff. Dave Bartholomew is killer too.

"That's How You Got Killed Before"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fci7iz4IKhQ

The Monkey
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Who Drank My Beer While I Was In the Rear
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[Rundquist]

John Barry- Diamonds are Forever soundtrack.

John Barry's the man.

 

[Fletch]

packing for the redeye

...& listening to the meatbox:

Moanin' Low - Lud Gluskin & Ambassador Ork, 1929. Only recording of this I know of without a vocal. (Never liked the lyric anyway.) Has that live, peaky-buzzy, early-European-electrical ambience. KnowhutImean?

Shooin' Flies - Blue Steele & Ork, 1930. "When summer comes I join the cry/Of that famous anthem 'Swat that fly'!" I prefer shooin' 'em, but their li'l feets are so hard to fit.

Jazz Martini - Mills Blue Rhythm Band, 1933. Two parts alto sax, one part tenor. Shake vigorously, with crisp staccato, until well blended. Refreshing.

Tea for Two - Tony Pastor (as Tom Berwick) & Ork, 1934. The only session for this Connecticut based band, whose leader didn't get even one side to his name. Swinging, brassy arrangement with Tony's tenor prominent.

 

[Mysterious Mose]

...& listening to the meatbox:

Has that live, peaky-buzzy, early-European-electrical ambience. KnowhutImean?

Yes! Ambience! I hear it on British danceband records, sometimes.
And then there's the Ross Deluxe Syncopators kind of ambience.
Good stuff, ambience.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s for a night off by --

Both sides of a rare red-label Decca from 1937, with two tunes from the score of "Pins and Needles," the hit Broadway revue produced by and starring members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union -- a highlight of an era when labor unions could and did produce their own Broadway hits.

Side A features Ruth Rubenstien -- in real life a $24 a week stitcher at a bra factory in Brooklyn -- performing her original-cast rendition of "Chain Store Daisy," the lament of a sad-eyed Vassar girl who can only find work as a shopgirl. It happened more often than you might realize.

Side B brings in a couple of ringers -- Kay Weber and Sonny Schuyler -- for a terrific duet on the show's theme song, "Sing Me A Song Of Social Significance." In the actual show, the number was performed by a chorus of sweaty factory boys in a bathroom, so you can understand why a more delicate approach was favored for the record.

(I hope I live to see the day when this show gets revived -- the fact that it existed at all is just another reason why 1937 marked the high point of American culture.)

 

[Wally_Hood]

Just finished Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, with The Forbes Matter.

 

[Fletch]

Yes! Ambience! I hear it on British danceband records, sometimes.
And then there's the Ross Deluxe Syncopators kind of ambience.
Good stuff, ambience.

Indubitaboobitably sir. Ask for it by name. Accept no cut-rate imitations.

(I hope I live to see the day when this show gets revived -- the fact that it existed at all is just another reason why 1937 marked the high point of American culture.)

An era whose like we shall not see again - except perhaps in the stuffy multipurpose room of a Long Island JCC. lol

 

[HadleyH]

Watched Eddie Cantor again... in "Making Whoopee" (1930)

"Ten Gallon Hat" love that song,with Ethel Shutta... omg! that woman knows how to dance!
And Busby Berkeley's arrangements amazing as always! :eusa_clap


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[Nik Taylor]

Hey Pete! Let's eat more meat - Dizzy Gillespie ...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_LAW1xLCpA

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

A Lively Little One-Step

Billy Murray -- Then They Start The Victrola
recorded July 29, 1914

Lyrics:
I know a couple in full dress and gown
Who used to go to the dances in town
But he got jealous of all of the fellows
She looked so pretty, they kept crowding around
He said with envy, "I'll turn them all green"
He went and bought her a Victor machine
With that Victrola home they never have to roam
Cause' he gets her all alone

(Chorus)
Then they start the Victrola, the little Victrola
And up comes the rug from the floor
At no more parties are they to be found
He likes to have her when no one's around
That's why he bought a Victrola, the little Victrola
They never go out anymore
And after dancing he's all out of breath
He loves to take her and hug her to death
Then they start the Victrola, the little Victrola
And go dancing around the floor

Sometimes he doesn't come home until three
She sits there waiting as mad as can be
Then grabs his collar and starts in to holler
That you're forgetting that you're no longer free
She says, "Now Dearie, you're wasting your life"
"Cut out that innocent look in your eyes"
Just like a silly goose he hasn't one excuse
Then they both say what's the use?

(Chorus)
Then they start the Victrola, the little Victrola
And up comes the rug from the floor
At no more parties are they to be found
He likes to have her when no one's around
That's why he bought a Victrola, the little Victrola
They never go out anymore
And after dancing he's all out of breath
He loves to take her and hug her to death
Then they start the Victrola, the little Victrola
And go dancing around the floor

 

[Professor]

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[BinkieBaumont]

"Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer"

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"Rather Super Boating Blazer"

 

[melanie]

I've just acquired the new Glenn Miller album, and I am listening to it over and over again, that and Dreamboats and Petticoats.

 

[Fletch]

icing down the meatbox

for the extra hot weekend to come...

I'll Be Hard to Handle - Emil Coleman & Ork, 1933. The Harmonians (who I think were just any 3 or 4 people singing with Coleman) give out with a warning from one of those "Modern Women" the moralists were all knotted up about. Happily, records were a niche market just then. Mr. C kicks off more of a beat than his usual society fare.

Keepin' Out of Mischief Now - Isham Jones & Ork, 1932. After leading the loudest doggone band in the midwest in 1930 and '31, Ish put a lid on it. A pleasant mid-tempo affair without so much syncopation or dynamic effects. Even "saxie" sticks to the quarter notes in his chorus. Dusty Rhodes, ex-Ted Weemsian, waxes lyrical.

Serenade for a Wealthy Widow - Michel Warlop et son orchestre, 1934. That popular modernistic novelty as hotted up by the under-appreciated fiddling fiend and a group I believe includes Django Reinhardt, or someone who knew him well. Chonk-a-chonk!