What are you listening to?

[Dapper Dave]

Benny Goodman 1937-1938 when he had Gene Krupa and Harry James in the Band. Ziggy Elman was also in his band, but most of the solo's went to Harry James.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

The Blonde Bombshell from Swindon, Diana Dors, from her 1960 Album "Swingin Dors"


[video=youtube;XX5Z5EQ4lBw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX5Z5EQ4lBw&feature=related[/video]

 

[normanpitkin]

Indeed,for my money the peak of the swing era!

 

[Berlin]

This man is simply a genius.
[video=youtube;mmCnQDUSO4I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I&feature=related[/video]

 

[martinsantos]

I love this!

His Romeo & Juliet is very good too!df7
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This man is simply a genius.
[video=youtube;mmCnQDUSO4I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I&feature=related[/video]

 

[MissMittens]

The Blonde Bombshell from Swindon, Diana Dors, from her 1960 Album "Swingin Dors"

My memories of her in England were that she was always on TV for something, and was old and rather rotund. Wow.......she's smoking in this

 

[BinkieBaumont]

My memories of her in England were that she was always on TV for something, and was old and rather rotund. Wow.......she's smoking in this

Youths a mask, and it dont last

[video=youtube;VhtPiCurN1U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhtPiCurN1U[/video]

 

[Berlin]

Wim Sonneveld - Het dorp {Translation: The Village}
Wim Sonneveld (June 28, 1917 - March 8, 1974) was an amazing artist from my country, a dutch cabaret and singer.
I love his song "Het dorp" since his dialect was still the Dutch correct language and it sounds so chic. The language is now so degenerated. Such a shame.

[video=youtube;Tlg1Vw0o7WM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlg1Vw0o7WM[/video]

 

[Harp]

This man is simply a genius.

Shostakovich was indeed a genius. :eusa_clap
I will also second Sergei Prokofiev to that status.
Missed last nite's Chicago Symphony performance of Prokofiev's Fifth.

Thelonious Monk, Lulu's Back in Town.:coffee:

fftopic:
The rose is the eye of the flowers, the lightning of beauty.

Sappho, Song of The Rose

 

[fluteplayer07]

Lately, quite a bit of Eric Whitacre, Jamie Cullum (The Pursuit), Josh Groban (Illuminations), and a bit of Michael Civisca thrown in for good measure. (Just found out about him the other day, perusing some old threads here. Amazing voice.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to wait for the furnace guy by --

Starting off in 1928 with the Ipana Troubadours, S. C. Lanin Director, and one of those definitive "sound of the twenties" records, "Nagasaki," back when the only thing you thought about when that city was mentioned was men chewin' tobaccy and women makin' wicki-wacki-woo.

Next, ahead to 1932 with Bob Causer and his Cornellians and the hit tune from "Horse Feathers," "Ev'ryone Says I Love You." Chick Bullock makes us forget all about Zeppo on the vocal. Many years ago, I used this record as backing music for a radio commercial about a bakery "where the added ingredient was love."

 

[Harp]

Chet Baker, My Funny Valentine

 

[Magnus Pym]

Came across a nice collection of 20's jazz on archive.org, which has been getting a lot of rotation over the last day or so:
http://www.archive.org/details/1920sJazz-01-90

Thrown in with some Wilmoth Houdini, Mahler, Jim O'Rourke and Esquivel

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Aleksander Zabczynski -- Piosenka O Nadine (Song Of Nadine) (1934)
(with Henryk Gold and his Orchestra)

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

Henryk Gold and his Orchestra -- Idzie Wiosna! (Spring Is Here!) (1931)

[video=youtube;izT45hfPGBw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izT45hfPGBw&feature=related[/video]

 

[LizzieMaine]

Radio to eat leftover macaroni and cheese by --

It's September 27, 1933, we're tuned to WABC, and Old Gold cigarettes -- "mellow as a cello, not a cough in a carload" -- present Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, with guests Harry Richman and Milton Berle. Obviously, having leather lungs is a plus with this particular sponsor. David Ross does the commercials in a rich, oleaginous voice that suggests he never lit a cigarette in his life.

 

[Fletch]

Adrian Rollini, patron saint of the bass saxophone, and some of his fellow swing luminaries (Bunny, Benny, Big T and, IIRC, Krupa) in 1934 discings of Riverboat Shuffle and Davenport Blues.

More Roly at redhotjazz.com, who insists his recordings have a "general lack of excitement or beauty." So does a pork chop supper, but it's mighty satisfying, and so are they.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to get ready to go to work in another stinking blizzard by --

Starting off in 1937 with Dick Robertson and his Orchestra and a very Clambake Seven-ish take on "September In The Rain." Rain I would settle for. September even more so.

Next, still in 1937, with "Art" Shaw and his New Music and the big musical number from "A Day At The Races," "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm." Tony Pastor gives his usual big-grin-while-passing-a-kidney-stone routine on the lyrics.

 

[MissMittens]

"September In The Rain." Rain I would settle for. September even more so.

Great song, I have that in my 78 collection

 

[Fletch]

Columbia Saxophone Sextette

Chong (He Come from Hong Kong), 1919
introducing: Anything Is Nice If It Comes From Dixieland and By the Campfire

Frogs' Legs, 1920

Just Snap Your Fingers At Care, 1920

Handbill for unknown group ca. 1888. No pictures exist of the Columbians.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

always love reading your descriptions and seeing what music you've got playing LizzieM!!

78s to get ready to go to work in another stinking blizzard by --

Starting off in 1937 with Dick Robertson and his Orchestra and a very Clambake Seven-ish take on "September In The Rain." Rain I would settle for. September even more so.

Next, still in 1937, with "Art" Shaw and his New Music and the big musical number from "A Day At The Races," "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm." Tony Pastor gives his usual big-grin-while-passing-a-kidney-stone routine on the lyrics.