What are you listening to?

[Amy Jeanne]

Dumped a bunch of RUDY VALLEE in my iPod last night.

Right at this very second my iPod is hooked up to my stereo and on shuffle. The song playing is "C'est A Robinson" by Lucienne Boyer.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Ben Bernie and his Orchestra -- I'd Love To Meet That Old Sweetheart Of Mine (1926)
Brunswick 3303
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/ramh/DH487213.ram

Leo Reisman and his Orchestra -- Red Lips, Kiss My Blues Away (1927)
Columbia 973-D
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/ramh/DH487264.ram

High Hatters -- You've Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me (1930)
Victor 22409
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/ramw/1930_132.ram

Jack Hylton and his Orchestra -- One, Two, Button Your Shoe (1937)
HMV BD-5166
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/ramb/Joh077.ram

 

[Bourne ID]

Since I'm in my wine shop six days a week I'm always listening to Jazz that I have streaming to the store speakers from Pandora. I set up a Charlie Parker station which plays his works as well as all his peers. Sunday mornings when i get to give my self a good long straight razor hot towel shave I listen to a playlist on my iphone that has everything from Yo Yo Ma solos to Coop! Ahh...only 26 hours to go!

I Like this! I've got Pandora in the office, set up a Cab Calloway station that keeps me hopping all day long!

 

[Harp]

ESPN 1000AM

Chicago Bears/Green Bay Packers post game analysis.
:argue:

 

[AtomicEraTom]

[video=youtube;iTt5lfVkWJw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTt5lfVkWJw[/video]

 

[DavidVillaJr]

Today is "Ballad Day" in my classroom.

John Coltrane Quartet - Ballads

and

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

currently playing "You Are Too Beautiful" - that Johnny Hartman has a FANTASTIC voice.

dv

 

[Lillemor]

I never tire of Patti Page's voice. Love After Midnight. Funny how after searching on youtube for Andy Williams I find that he's covered many of the same songs as Patti Page. I enjoy listening to both equally which surprised me because I usually prefer which ever version I heard first.

 

[Harp]

WLS 890* AM Chicago's flamethrower.
Notre Dame vs Pittizza:

 

[Kahuna]

The Golden Gate Quartet - Mockingbird
[video=youtube;q4W8Uw00hs8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4W8Uw00hs8[/video]

 

[Fletch]

Better not let too many people know about jazz-on-line.com. There's so much good stuff there, for free, that sooner or later someone's going to want to shut it down.

Ben Bernie and his Orchestra -- I'd Love To Meet That Old Sweetheart Of Mine (1926)
Brunswick 3303
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/ramh/DH487213.ram

Leo Reisman and his Orchestra -- Red Lips, Kiss My Blues Away (1927)
Columbia 973-D
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/ramh/DH487264.ram

High Hatters -- You've Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me (1930)
Victor 22409
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/ramw/1930_132.ram

Jack Hylton and his Orchestra -- One, Two, Button Your Shoe (1937)
HMV BD-5166
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/ramb/Joh077.ram

 

[HadleyH]

Bix sounds amazing in this one, he always does of course but this is so good!!!! ... " There'll Come A Time (you wait and see)"



[video=youtube;7pj1ZEKz4Cw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pj1ZEKz4Cw[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Not an actual broadcast -- it's a special souvenir recording made at the Brunswick studio in Los Angeles on December 2, 1929 as a Christmas gift for Don Lee network sponsors and staff. One side of the record has Christmas greetings, the other the simulated "New Years Eve" broadcast. On both sides, members of the KHJ staff perform quick samples of their specialties.

Those appearing on the New Year's recording are, in order, announcer Howard Griffin, the KHJ Orchestra directed by Leigh Harline, vocalist Jane Parker, the Four Boys, Leigh Harline himself, Elvia Allman, and Charlie Wellman.

Thank you, Lizzie! We can always count on you to fill in the gaps in our knowledge. The thought did cross my mind that the New Year's Party recording could have also been a promotional item for Don Lee's Cadillac dealership. He was originally a Cadillac dealer just like his competitor Earl C. Anthony was a Packard dealer. I keep forgetting the call letters of Lee's San Francisco station but the studios were located on the mezzanine of his Cadillac dealership.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

[video=youtube;qyki7G1uEeU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyki7G1uEeU[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Revisting some old tangos...

Orquestra Pedro Maffia -- Broche De Oro (1930)
(A Touch Of Class)
Brunswick 1431-B

Orquestra Adolfo Carabelli -- Cantando (1931)
vocals by Mercedes Simone & Alberto Gomez
Victor

Adolfo Carabelli was musical director for Argentina Victor. Listening to his recordings one can detect the clean and precise "Victor" style in common with his American counterparts Nat Shilkret and Leonard Joy. Somewhat unusual for a tango is the ukelele accompaniment to the vocals.

Carlos Gardel -- Confesiòn (1931)
(accompanied by Orquestra Francisco Canaro)
Naciònal Odeon 18850

Orquestra Domingo Federico -- Saludos (1944)
RCA Victor 60-045

 

[Berlin]

[video=youtube;XeeMDGq1FMI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeeMDGq1FMI[/video]

 

[MissMittens]

[video=youtube;XeeMDGq1FMI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeeMDGq1FMI[/video]

I think that's a Bee Gee's song

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to see if the thermometer will rise to zero before I go to work by --

Starting off in 1935 with a spectacular 12-inch Decca by the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, with a delicate Kay Weber vocal on "Solitude." A reissue pressing from the album set "Five Feet of Swing," which is well worth grabbing if you come across it.

Next, staying in 1935 with Miss Ethel Merman and the unforgettable "It's The Animal In Me," her tour-de-force number from "The Big Broadcast of 1936." My cat objects strongly to the crude stereotyping of animals in this song.

 

[Bourne ID]

Listening to Ella Fitzgerald : The Early Years, part 1

 

[kools]

 

[Fletch]

King Porter Stomp - King Oliver & Jelly Roll Morton, 1924. On the theme of unloved early electrical phonography rue, Lizzie and I were discussing yesterday, here's a cut made by the Marsh process, a little peaky and blasty but not too bad, and you can't beat the personnel.

Nuts to You - Cats & the Fiddle, 1939. Sort of a Race Record version of the Ink Spots - ironic that - with guitar and bass messinaround.

Why Don't You Practice What You Preach? - Jan Garber & Orch., 1934. Those "other" Canadians - near-perfect Lombardo emulators except for an occasional side that actually had a beat (!) - were the only thing keeping Chicago's Victor studio open at the time.