What are you listening to?

[Fletch]

If It Ain't Love - Chick Webb & Orch., 1934, vocal- Charles Linton. A 1932 hit, here briefly revived.
[video=youtube;zCW_S_gNppY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCW_S_gNppY&feature=relmfu[/video]

And I Still Do! - Ina Ray Hutton & Her Melodears, 1934, vocal- Ruth Bradley, also the band's lead saxist.
[video=youtube;kdz3e87cDjU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdz3e87cDjU&feature=relmfu[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Music from The Shining.
1. Jack Hylton and his Orchestra -- Masquerade (1932)
vocal by Pat O'Malley
2. Ray Noble and his Orchestra -- Midnight, The Stars And You (1934)
vocal by Al Bowlly
3. Ray Noble and his Orchestra -- It's All Forgotten Now (1932)
vocal by Al Bowlly
4. Henry Hall and his Gleneagles Hotel Band -- Home (1932)
vocal by Maurice Elwyn

[video=youtube;xZV-Vaq5G8I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZV-Vaq5G8I[/video]

 

[AtomicEraTom]

[video=youtube;0S13mP_pfEc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S13mP_pfEc[/video]

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
[video=youtube_share;MA_ode55DFA]http://youtu.be/MA_ode55DFA[/video]
[video=youtube_share;oHlhOgQ36m8]http://youtu.be/oHlhOgQ36m8[/video]

 

[Touchofevil]

Old Crow Medicine Show's Big Iron World

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

This one's for Shangas.

[video=youtube;g2LJ1i7222c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LJ1i7222c[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Don Azpiazu and his Havana Casino Band -- Marianna (1931)

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

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Renate Müller -- Rosen Und Liebe (1933)
(Roses And Love)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOd5P9kjlgQ

Renate Müller (26 April 1906 – 7 October 1937) was a German singer and actress in both silent films and sound films, as well as on stage.
One of the most successful actresses in German films from the early 1930s, she was courted by the Nazi Party to appear in films that promoted their ideals, but refused. Her sudden death at the age of 31 was initially attributed to epilepsy, but after the end of World War II, witnesses suggested that she had been murdered by Gestapo officers, although another theory contends that she committed suicide. The true circumstances of her death remains unclear.

Born in Munich, Germany, Müller entered films in the late 1920s in Berlin and quickly became popular. A blue-eyed blonde, she was considered to be one of the great beauties of her day and along with Marlene Dietrich was seen to embody fashionable Berlin society. She starred in more than twenty German films, including Viktor und Viktoria (1933), one of her biggest successes, which was remade decades later as Victor Victoria with Julie Andrews.

With the rise of the Nazi Party, Müller came to be regarded as an ideal Aryan woman and particularly in light of Dietrich's move to Hollywood, was courted and promoted as Germany's leading film actress. A meeting with Adolf Hitler in the mid 1930s resulted in Müller being offered parts in films that promoted Nazi ideals.
When she died suddenly, the German press stated the cause as epilepsy. It was later revealed that she had died as a result of a fall from her hotel window. (According to Channel 4 documentary "Sex and the Swastika", February 2009, she jumped from a Berlin mental home window). Officially described as a suicide, it was theorised that she took her own life when her relationship with Nazi leaders deteriorated after she showed unwillingness to appear in propaganda films. She was also known to have been pressured to end a relationship with her Jewish lover, but had refused. Near the end of her life she became addicted to morphine. Witnesses also recalled seeing several Gestapo officers entering her building shortly before she died. It has been asserted she was either murdered by Gestapo officers who threw her from a window, or that she panicked when she saw them arrive and jumped. The true circumstances surrounding her death remain unclear.

 

[GHT]

I just love to listen, and dance, to Caro Emerald. The genre in which sings is so reminiscent of Gypsy Jazz of the late 1930's.
The video is so retro to. Caro's dress style, the microphone, the extras on the set. Love it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74LXx0wSqMI

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Caro Emerald -- Mad About The Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCnWT3bkGrk

 

[AtomicEraTom]

[video=youtube;flm4xcOyiCo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flm4xcOyiCo[/video]

 

[Hepville]

Pert Near Sandstone - Solid Gone

[video=youtube;ECzlJ952BLk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECzlJ952BLk[/video]

 

[Miss Moonlight]

I came across this youtube channel by accident. The uploader has touched these songs with a bit of echo. Makes them very dreamy, like memories. He did a lovely job.

[video=youtube_share;YdviRFib4qA]http://youtu.be/YdviRFib4qA[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Arthur Ross and his Westerners (Sam Lanin?) -- She's My Girl (1929)
vocal by Irving Kaufman

[video=youtube;FIm7c3_7-oo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIm7c3_7-oo[/video]

 

[HadleyH]

oh .........quelle horreur.....mon Dieu! Love it!!!!

Brigitte Bardot - "Moi Je Joue"
[video=youtube;js3t51n3EQc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js3t51n3EQc&feature=player_embedded[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Magnifique! And while we're on a French vibe here's...

Rita Cadillac -- C'est Fou
(It's Crazy)

French actress dancer and singer Rita Cadillac (1936-1995) is probably best known to movie audiences as the chanteuse from the beginning of Das Boot.

[video=youtube;q_rVX322q2E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_rVX322q2E[/video]

 

[HoosierDaddy]

[video=youtube;aqRjbeSuHi8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqRjbeSuHi8&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]

 

[Gin&Tonics]

[video=youtube;6ppdB6JX99Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ppdB6JX99Q&feature=autoplay&list=FLsxhoLD tHYb_kcyLTeF5SXQ&playnext=1[/video]

One of the most beautiful renditions I've ever heard of one of the most beautiful and haunting songs ever written.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

In honor of 4th of July, the soundtrack from the old America the Beautiful attraction at Disneyland.

[video=youtube;TptPsSEI6o8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TptPsSEI6o8[/video]

[video=youtube;94IRr6i1hzU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94IRr6i1hzU[/video]

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

[video=youtube_share;zwQxIOlm_xQ]http://youtu.be/zwQxIOlm_xQ[/video]