What are you listening to?

[Carlisle Blues]

Putting together a small show, so I am concentrating on "Blue Moon" and "Kansas City"

 

[Fletch]

I'm doing a discussion on Theodor Adorno for school tomorrow.

He's the composer-philosopher who coined the term "culture industry" and called all popular entertainment a heap of mind-rotting claptrap. And that was in 1944!

So naturally I have Ambrose and His Orchestra on iTunes (whole bunch of him, from like 1927-37) to keep from taking it all that seriously.

 

[Brian Sheridan]

Recorded July 11, 1933. Click label to play.

Learn more about Joe Haymes here, and hear a few more of his records.

Thanks for post Fletch. I never heard of Haymes. The track sounded so good I just ordered the only compilation CD available.

 

[Antje]

stranger in the crowd by Elvis Presley

 

[HadleyH]

not that anybody cares, but im listening to this now ... 20s and 30s music always brings me closer to that time than anything else....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeyNn8cunfE

 

[Carlisle Blues]

not that anybody cares, but im listening to this now ... 20s and 30s music always brings me closer to that time than anything else....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeyNn8cunfE

Wouldn't exactly say that your posts are always on the money

 

[Kermez]

Yesterday and today I've been listening to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy:

 

[Kermez]

Should you ever be possessed to do this again (and I say again, because one should never transcode lossy into lossless formats) I cannot recommend EAC strongly enough. Native support for any codec worth ripping to (I suggest FLAC) and excellent error checking and correction.

Plus, it bangs against freedb on album lookup, and if the album exists in freedb (better than 99% of my very often "obscure" collection) one rarely needs to correct anything but the genre, which does take some liberties.

Thanks for the advice, but (hopefully) NEVER!!!

 

[Fletch]

Thanks for post Fletch. I never heard of Haymes. The track sounded so good I just ordered the only compilation CD available.

Is it on the IAJRC label? I put that one together myself years ago from my own 78s and some others', too.

 

[Feraud]

I'm doing a discussion on Theodor Adorno for school tomorrow. He's the composer-philosopher who coined the term "culture industry" and called all popular entertainment a heap of mind-rotting claptrap. And that was in 1944!

That is a true pearl of wisdom.

I have downloaded and am listening to the songlist noted in this thread.
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=39066

 

[Fletch]

The class had a good discussion on Adorno. Some (me too) were left with the feeling that he wouldn't have been very happy with later developments in cultural studies - too liberal, too compromised between Art and commercialism. His was such a hardass intellect that he distrusted anything - writing, music, art - that tried for clarity or directness. He said the soul of everything great is ambiguity and contradiction. His writing reflected that, and he was proud of it.

Anyhow, back to music.

 

[Brian Sheridan]

Is it on the IAJRC label? I put that one together myself years ago from my own 78s and some others', too.

Yup. It apparently is the only Haymes release available on CD.

 

[Feraud]

It sounds like a very interesting class discussion Fletch.

 

[ShadyDell]

The Andrews Sisters
Louis Jordan
Tex Beneke
Ronnie Hawkings

gotta love pandora!

 

[Antje]

crazy on you, heart

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Soundtrack to the Mrs Bradley TV Series, set in the late 1920' lots of jolly tunes here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_txgRlT6-k

 

[Fletch]

SHUFFLE PLAY!

Ready for the River, Jimmie Noone Orch., 1928
How'm I Doin'?, Waring's Pennsylvanians, 1932
I Never Knew, Bob Wills Texas Playboys, 1945
If I Were King, Henry Halstead Orch., 1926
Let 'er Go, Artie Shaw Orch., 1938

Howboutit - Everybody Shuffle! (Everybody with Shuffle Play, anyway.)

3 of these 5 I'd never even heard before - what do you get?

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Thrift Shop Vinyl

Thrift shops seem to have tons of old vinyl Albums at crazy prices i bought a whole stack of em at my local thrift store an why not at 20 cents each why not?

I have a turntable that burns to my ipod,or computer so that's no problem

Here's one of the covers, showing a group of polish folk whooping it up in the late 1950's but the music is very "palm court Orchestra" tangos and fox trots type of thing they would have played on the titanic perhaps?

"Those flowers need more Water"

 

[AmateisGal]

The swooners and crooners station on my Windows Media Player radio station.

I am in some serious need for some Sinatra!

 

[Chas]

Duke Ellington's "Liberian Suite"