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What are you listening to?

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[video=youtube;5CJLark_H08]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CJLark_H08[/video]
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Fletch

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Herbie Kay and his band out of Chicago, who signed on with the same guitar vamp on every number, play a take on Swing, Mr. Charlie that would have pleased even the most conservative midwest dancers in 1936.
[video=youtube;0yhihVPIbP4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yhihVPIbP4[/video]

Back to 1931 and Cole Porter's Love for Sale. Ben Selvin's Columbia players do one of their rare instrumentals - because the lyrics were widely forbidden at the time.
[video=youtube;eXil7SY7RSc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXil7SY7RSc[/video]
 
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vitanola

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Herbie Kay and his band out of Chicago, who signed on with the same guitar vamp on every number, play a take on Swing, Mr. Charlie that would have pleased even the most conservative midwest dancers in 1936.
[video=youtube;0yhihVPIbP4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yhihVPIbP4[/video]


Holy Mackerel! Kay's band is so square tha one might cut one's self on their edges.

Interesting to note that during the Kay band's stay at the Edgewater Beach Hotel they were replaced by
the Fletcher Henderson organization on Saturday evenings. In 1936 Henderson sounded something like this:

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

Must have been something of a culture shock for the staff.
 
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One of those songs that reminds me so very much of my high school years. Almost brings a tear to my eye.

[video=youtube;qvVAc8ef9vI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvVAc8ef9vI[/video]

She weren't much to look at, she weren't much to ride
She was missing a window on her passenger side
The floorboard was patched up with paper and tar
But I really was something in my old yellow car

An American boy with his hands on the wheel
Of a dream that was made of American steel
Though the seats had the smell of a nickel cigar
I really was something in my old yellow car

Somewhere in a pile of rubber and steel
There's a rusty old shell automobile
And if engines could run on desire alone
That old yellow car would be driving me home

There's the seat where poor Billy threw up on his date
And where Larry and Sally could no longer wait
There was no road too winding and nowhere too far
With two bucks of gas and my old yellow car

Somewhere in a pile of rubber and steel
There's a rusty old shell of an automobile
And if engines could run on desires alone
That old yellow car would be driving me home

Take a look at me now throwing money around
I'm paying somebody to drive me downtown
Got a Mercedes Benz with a TV and bar
And, God, I wish I was driving my old yellow car
God, I wish I was driving my old yellow car
 

Albert.Tatlock

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Weatherfield, LANCS
'Swinging Dors' Diana Dors, the blond bombshell from swindon UK recorded with Wally Stott Orchestra in the early 1960's

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

a1a

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upstate New York
Classic rock through my classic McIntosh MR 71 tube tuner through my classic McIntosh MA 230 hybrid Tube / solid state pre-amp. Late 60's to early 70's across the board from music to hardware.
 

HadleyH

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the throat of Bowlly with Arthur Briggs Orchestra ---- "Are You Happy ? " 1927


[video=youtube;gsbhCbx0C5U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsbhCbx0C5U[/video]
 

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