What are you listening to?

[LizzieMaine]

Radio to clean the office by --

It's January 5, 1936, and Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra are just wrapping up their first NBC program for Woodbury Soap, for the Skin You Love To Touch. Ramona, Durelle Alexander, Johnny Hauser, Bob Lawrence, and the Kings Men make up the Ensemble for the evening, with special guest Harry Richman -- who no doubt uses Woodbury's Lotion to keep his leather lungs supple.

 

[Fletch]

The R. Crumb Seal of Approval

Two platters playing during a 1972 interview with the artist:
Hy'a Duchess [sic] - Ted Weems & Orch., 1933
I Knew You When - Isham Jones & Orch. 1934
A departure from the rootsy '20s music he's always celebrated and played.

 

[rue]

It's too early for Christmas music, isn't it? I already know the answer to that is yes, because I'm hiding it from my family and only playing it when they're not around. It's sick, seriously sick that I'm already doing this lol

 

[HadleyH]

"Lew Conrad was best known on radio as a star vocalist on NBC in the early 1930s when he was for a brief while considered to be an up-and-coming "crooner.

is it only me who thinks he sounds like Rudy Vallee?
[video=youtube;TgDaBwavJSY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgDaBwavJSY[/video]

Since nobody seems to know or care about this .... if you think that he sounds like Rudy Vallee or not ... well... time to move on then .... isn't it ...



1929
[video=youtube;fF-62kTv3rM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF-62kTv3rM[/video]

 

[Mark D]

John Coltrane "Naima" live from the Village Vanguard in '61...hey, sometimes I step out of period.

 

[lolly_loisides]

There's a new day coming - Harry Roy (1933)
[video=youtube;KySAa2DaROU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KySAa2DaROU[/video]

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Just got my new Gunter Kallmann Cd all the way from Switzerland with free postage!!!

[video=youtube;Yd3WQIVb_YU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd3WQIVb_YU[/video]

 

[BinkieBaumont]

[video=youtube;PKUlVi5wg6c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKUlVi5wg6c[/video]

 

[Mario]

From Townes Van Zandt's self-titled 1969 album: 'Waitin' Round To Die' and 'Lungs'.

 

[rue]

From Townes Van Zandt's self-titled 1969 album: 'Waitin' Round To Die' and 'Lungs'.

fftopic: Music shmusic... I want that kitchen!

 

[Fletch]

Since nobody seems to know or care about this .... if you think that he sounds like Rudy Vallee or not ... well... time to move on then .... isn't it ...

Oh Hadley, I'm sorry I hadn't realized you were waiting for an answer!
I have both of Conrad's Victors - the band only made the 4 sides. I agree he was trying to sound like Vallee, but he didn't make it. Similar delivery, different timbre - very reedy and very fast vibrato. The Vallee and Columbo "types" didn't catch on with the public nearly so well as the Crosby sound.

Lew was a/k/a Lou Levin. He played in the Cleveland Orchestra before joining Leo Reisman. He led a band at least part time in '32-33 and was booked by NBC. He also sang on Meyer Davis and Emil Coleman recordings in '33-'34. Last trace of him is in '37-'38, doing radio and band dates, but no more records.

Here's Lew with Coleman in '34, doing a nice Dick Whiting number, Sweet of You.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Julie Andrews -- Thoroughly Modern Millie

[video=youtube;KVNcLUE87HQ]http://youtube.com/watch?v=KVNcLUE87HQ][/video]

I get a laugh out of a couple of major anachronisms in the film. The first one is in the title song. The lyrics contain the line:

Men say it's criminal what women'll do
What they're forgetting is this is 1922

So we can presume that the story is set in 1922. But there's a sequence preceding this clip where a girl is singing Looking At The World Through Rose Colored Glasses, and later in the film Julie Andrews performs Baby Face. Both songs were written in 1926

The second anachronism is the fashions. While the outfit Julie Andrews is wearing before she transforms herself into a flapper is right for 1922, the whole flapper style that we associate with the 1920s is closer to 1926 than 1922.

 

[Michael Carter]

At this very moment, A Flock of Seagulls, 'I Ran'

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Ben Bernie and his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra -- Calling Me Home (1926)

[video=youtube;XnXCSP7jrmg]http://youtube.com/watch?v=XnXCSP7jrmg[/video]

Lyrics
Calling me home
I hear you calling me home
I found this world is so cold
I've been foretold. I'm so tired of roaming
Unselfish love
A gift from Heaven above
I miss that blessing divine
Mother of mine, I hear you calling me home

 

[LizzieMaine]

Radio to head off to work by --

It's August 26, 1936 and the Lady Esther Serenade is presenting the music of Hal Kemp and his Orchestra, with Skinnay Ennis, Bob Allen, and Maxine Grey. Lady Esther herself is telling us the sad story of a businesswoman who lost out on a vital interview when she powdered her nose in front of the interviewer. I hate when that happens.

 

[Nik Taylor]

The Carl Fenton Orchestra (AKA "Carl Fenton's Orchestra") was a title given to Brunswick Records studio bands through the 1920s. The name was invented by Brunswick music director Walter Gustave "Gus" Haenschen shortly after taking the position for their brand-new American division. Later, the name was taken by violinist Rudy Greenberg. Haenschen, whose own name was considered ill-suited for commercial recordings, haphazardly chose the name "Fenton" after the town of Fenton, Missouri, near his hometown of St Louis, Missouri


Carl Fenton Orch. - Brown Eyes Why Are You Blue

[video=youtube;Ey3z2ePLmxw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey3z2ePLmxw&feature=related[/video]

 

[HadleyH]

Talking about brown eyes .... not listening to it now, but I used to!

[video=youtube;WXkkYvGK2R0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXkkYvGK2R0[/video]

 

[Chas]

A lot of Coleman Hawkins.

 

[Nik Taylor]

Talking about brown eyes .... not listening to it now, but I used to!

[video=youtube;WXkkYvGK2R0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXkkYvGK2R0[/video]

Thanks Hadley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is one of my favorite songs I have not listened to it in a long time I think I will now..............

 

[Dan'l]

Billie Holiday, Billie's Best

Trying to keep the work day mellow...trying