What are you listening to?

[LizzieMaine]

78s to patch a hole in my shoe by --

Now playing, it's Eddie Cantor with Phil Spitalny's orchestra in 1932 with "Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz!." During that dismal spring, President Hoover offered to award a medal to anyone who could come up with a happy, optimistic song that would make America forget the Depression. This wasn't it, but it *is* probably the only popular song ever to suggest lynching a President -- "Sunny smilers we must be, the optimist asserts -- Let's hang the fathead to a tree! Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz!"

Next, back to 1930 with Hal Kemp and his Orchestra, before they fell into the stylized trumpet-triplet sweet-band forumla, with a high-stepping and snappy performance of "H'lo Baby," a tune which viewers of vintage cartoons will instantly recognize as one of Bosko's favorites.

 

[Babydoll]

I'm listening to Maxine Sullivan on the Swing Years and Beyond on www.kuow.org. Music from the 20s to the 50s. Live streaming on the website. Every Saturday night from 7p-12a (PST).

Good stuff!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

George Formby -- Out In The Middle East (circa 1941)

Lyrics:
A fellow in the Forces was writing a letter
From somewhere in the East
Talk of a blinking feast!
He said it's just like Blackpool Sands
We play with hand grenades
If we had known we would have brought along our buckets and our spades

Out in the Middle East
You can have a lot of fun
Out in the Middle East
By the Mediterranean

Join the Forces, they used to say
And see the world, it sounds okay
But you see nowt but sun all day!
Out in the Middle East

And when you're home to it
They never serve you wholesome hotpot
You never get a gentle breeze
A blowing round your topknot

On your head your hat's like saucepan lids
And you take off your Well-I-Never-Dids
It gets a bit hot round the pyramids
Out in the Middle East

Out in the Middle East
You can have a lot of fun
Out in the Middle East
By the Mediterranean

The ladies don't wear too much gear
It's much too hot for that I fear
You ought to see what we see here!
Out in the Middle East

And our old Sergeant
A little lad who comes from Preston
We hear him singing Bless Em' All
With nothing but his vest on

Our fat old cookie, Corporal Platt
He's now as thin as cricket bat
The sun got to his lump of fat
Out in the Middle East

 

[Chas]

Kansas City Six And Seven.

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My current favorite small group.

Looking forward to doing my annual Lester Young Tribute Show 2nd week of August.

 

[Johnny J]

My favorite is Sinatra. Today I was listening to all his greats! "Can I steal a little love", is one of them.

 

[Shangas]

Jack Hylton and His Orchestra - "If I had a Talking Picture of You"

If I had a talking picture of you,
I would run it every time I felt blue!
I would sit there in the gloom,
Of my lonely little room,
And applaud each time you whispered:
"I love you!...Love you!"

On the screen the moment you came in view,
We could talk the whole thing over, we two!
I would give ten shows a day,
And a midnight matinee,
If I had a talking picture of you!

Recorded in 1929, when 'talkies' were just coming on the scene...

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to wait around for the mail by --

Now playing, it's 1935 with Little Jack Little and his Orchestra and what would've been the definitive recording of "Lullaby Of Broadway," if only Wini Shaw hadn't also recorded it. Jack Himself speaks the vocal in his inimitable manner.

Next, 1937 brings us Jerry Blaine and his Streamline Rhythm and a stylized instrumental called "The Snake Charmer." "Scram, bum," says Raymond Scott. "I'm workin' this side of the street."

 

[Wally_Hood]

Two episodes of Information, Please, the initial broadcast, and the one where Orson Welles corrects Fadiman three times about the questions. I'd never heard the show before and I really like it.

 

[Undertow]

Shake Sugaree - Elizabeth Cotten; just fell in love with this song!

Next up, Bing and Satch do Gone Fishin'!

 

[Fletch]

Haulin' Ash

Paul Ash and his big-sounding band with Ten Little Miles from Town (1928) and You Don't Like It, Not Much! (1927). The latter tune is sung by Milton Watson, one of the performers on the opening broadcast of CBS Television in 1931.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"I Will Survive" Puppini Sisters

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"I Can't Believe I'm Not a Millionaire" Puppini Sisters

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http://www.thepuppinisisters.com/

 

[vintage68]

I recently started to get into Bluegrass, and just discovered a band called Crooked Still which I really like.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to recover from a very very long night by --

Starting off in 1934 with Ted Weems and his Orchestra and a fast-moving rendition of "Talkin' To Myself." Parker Gibbs does the talking, as the psychiatrist furiously takes notes.

Next, following a commercial for New Anti-Sneeze Rinso -- no more washday hay fever! -- it's ahead to 1939 for Kay Kyser and his Orchestra with Harry Babbitt's wailing lament, "Hey Pop! I Don't Wanna Go To Work!" You get outta that bed, ya bum, before you get tipped out.

 

[AmateisGal]

The Mozart channel on Pandora. I needed something relaxing for the pounding headache...

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra -- Song Of The Dawn (1930)
(vocal by Bing Crosby)
Columbia ECB 87
[featured in the film The King of Jazz (Universal, 1930)]

Lyrics:
Wake from your sleep all you weary ones
Who are weary of the night
Look to the East all you dreary ones
Who are waiting for the light

Dawn is breaking and a new day is born
The world is singing the song of dawn
Birds are waking in the welcome of dawn
They'll soon be singing the song of the dawn

Yesterday skies were gray
Look! This morning they're blue!
Smiling sun tells everyone
Come and start life anew

Sing Hallelujah, for the dark night is gone
The world is singing the song of the dawn

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Kraft Music Hall, hosted by Al Jolson, special guest Mr Clifton Webb, some time in 1948"

 

[melanie]

Im currently listening to The Best Of The Stray Cats and am loving it

When I have finished listening to these, I'll listen to my new rockabilly cd, by the band The Baseballs....

 

[habberdasher]

Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra -- Song Of The Dawn (1930)
(vocal by Bing Crosby)
Columbia ECB 87
[featured in the film The King of Jazz (Universal, 1930)]

Lyrics:
Wake from your sleep all you weary ones
Who are weary of the night
Look to the East all you dreary ones
Who are waiting for the light

Dawn is breaking and a new day is born
The world is singing the song of dawn
Birds are waking in the welcome of dawn
They'll soon be singing the song of the dawn

Yesterday skies were gray
Look! This morning they're blue!
Smiling sun tells everyone
Come and start life anew

Sing Hallelujah, for the dark night is gone
The world is singing the song of the dawn

One of my favorite Bing hits - greatest singer in my opinion. Such a powerful melody and superb and inspiring Whiteman rendition. And a great movie it was in!

 

[BinkieBaumont]

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"So Bad She's Great, Mrs Miller, If you have beloved Pets it may be an idea to put them in another room. ...or the garden"