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Nathan Dodge

One Too Many
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Near Miami
Some Came Running-Original Soundtrack

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RIOT

Practically Family
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708
Location
N Y of C
Northern Soul. The Creation, Small Faces, Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, The Attack, Sonny Boy Williamson, Ramsey Lewis Trio, etc. Just the greats and tons of it!
 

Fletch

I'll Lock Up
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Iowa - The Land That Stuff Forgot
Cadging recherché early 30s Euro-jazz off YouTube. Euro-jazz in that pre-Hot Club era was actually more American - ie jazzier and more up-tempo - than you could get away with back home, where hot music was a painful memory of better times.

March of the Hoodlums - Gus Deloof and His Racketeers, Brussels 1931
Hoagy Carmichael's tune and arrangement, as recorded by Ellington in '29.

Orient Express - Hans Bund mit seinem Tanz-Orchester, Berlin 1933
This is what they were listening to when we were playing The Last Round-Up.

Goofus - Paul Godwin Tanz-Orchester, Berlin 1932
Pretty much the domestic version, except there's a bass sax solo. Most bass saxes in New York were in pawn and their owners sleeping in the cases.
 

LizzieMaine

Bartender
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Where The Tourists Meet The Sea
78s to wait around for a phone call by --

Now playing, Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra in 1937 with one of the best pop tunes of the year, "The Moon Got In My Eyes." A very callow and off-key Bob Eberly makes a desperate stab at the vocal, and makes you realize how much better the Dorsey-Bing Crosby version of this tune is.

Next up, Artie Shaw and his Orchestra in 1938 with a very appropriate selection on this icy morning, "There's Frost On The Moon." A frost-dispelling arrangement with the unjustly-forgotten Peg LaCentra swinging the vocal.
 

carter

I'll Lock Up
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5,921
Location
Corsicana, TX
Old & In the Way - Breakdown recorded live at The Boarding House, San Francisco, October 1973. Vassar Clements - fiddle, Jerry Garcia - banjo & vocals, David Grisman - mandolin & vocals, John Kahn - acoustic bass, and Peter Rowan - guitar & vocals. Recorded by Owsley Stanley & Victoria Babcock. Produced by David Grisman.

Back in '73, these guys were playing a different kind of bluegrass. It came to be known as hippiegrass and introduced bluegrass to a whole new audience in the 70's and 80's. Good stuff.
 

JohnnyGringo

A-List Customer
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353
Location
OH-IO
After viewing Adele on Saturday Night Live a couple of weeks ago, I picked up her CD, Adele 19, over the weekend- she has such an amazing voice! I also listened to Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder's Tribute to the Masters of Bluegrass, 1946-47- this is truly classic Bluegrass performed at it's contemporary finest. As a side note-the liner notes also have some cool pics of a young Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, looking mighty stylish in their 40's attire, complete with dress hats.
 

Miss Molly

New in Town
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49
Location
The Shire, England
I have no personal favourites at the moment (usually I go through stages!) but instead am slowly browsing though this website :D

(well-known online source for OTR -- sorry, we can't allow a direct link for copyright reasons)

It's a wonderful source, though I'm sure many of you have already found it!
 

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