What are you listening to?

[Fletch]

Been enjoying the chummy "Texas Collectors Party" broadcast at RadioDismuke.com. Just a boys' night in with predominantly 1920s pop 78s and exotic nonalcoholic beverages (Peruvian purple corn drink?). It's a little different than usual due to the presence of a singing accordionist, and quite a good one.

The feeling of eavesdropping makes this kind of show fun - like some of the geeked-up jazz or r&b programs they used to do on local public radio. All this lacks is a few adult beverages and women (they're only audible in the background).

 

[Dismuke]

Been enjoying the chummy "Texas Collectors Party" broadcast at RadioDismuke.com. Just a boys' night in with predominantly 1920s pop 78s and exotic nonalcoholic beverages (Peruvian purple corn drink?). It's a little different than usual due to the presence of a singing accordionist, and quite a good one.

The feeling of eavesdropping makes this kind of show fun - like some of the geeked-up jazz or r&b programs they used to do on local public radio. All this lacks is a few adult beverages and women (they're only audible in the background).

Fletch - thanks for listening and for your nice comments about the broadcast.

As for adult beverages - we did have some Percy Medicine, Waco's own Golden Era patent medicine which has 5 percent alcohol content.

The singing accordionist is a good one. For those who did not get a chance to catch the broadcast, his name is Matt Tolentino and he heads up the Singapore Slingers which is a Dallas based 1920s and 1930s style fox trot orchestra - the first the area has had since the 1920s and 1930s.

I am extremely excited about having such a band in this area. Until now, fans of the music in the Fort Worth/Dallas area had to travel elsewhere - usually to New York or California - to hear authentic dance band music from that era. The band has a myspace site at:

http://www.myspace.com/thesingaporeslingersdallas

I will try to remember to put up postings about upcoming performances by the band here on the Lounge. They might actually be a good occasion for folks here from the Metroplex to get together and meet one another.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to cut my own hair by --

Starting off with the Benny Goodman Trio in 1937, and the classic "Exactly Like You." The noted crooner Lionel Hampton grunts and squints out the vocal, sounding for all the world like a cross between Tony Pastor and Pee Wee Hunt. Better stick to the vibes, fella.

Next, back to 1933 for one of my favorite Fats Waller and his Rhythm sides, "A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid." I can't imagine why "Be mah pulley line!" didn't catch on as a Valentine greeting.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

LizzieM, you are the undisputed Queen of vintage music!!

78s to cut my own hair by --

Starting off with the Benny Goodman Trio in 1937, and the classic "Exactly Like You." The noted crooner Lionel Hampton grunts and squints out the vocal, sounding for all the world like a cross between Tony Pastor and Pee Wee Hunt. Better stick to the vibes, fella.

Next, back to 1933 for one of my favorite Fats Waller and his Rhythm sides, "A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid." I can't imagine why "Be mah pulley line!" didn't catch on as a Valentine greeting.

 

[Fletch]

LizzieM, you are the undisputed Queen of vintage music!!

Yeah - you are number one on my invite list when Radio Fletch does its inaugural.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

YES! :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

Yeah - you are number one on my invite list when Radio Fletch does its inaugural.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

another on YouTube

At last, finally got this video to upload on YouTube! Please keep in mind that its a bit rough as I only worked with these other players for a bit earlier that evening, and I had just the one shot! And I had not learned it previously, I started working over and over again with the melody and lyrics and watching videos of this song beginning the morning of the same day as I recorded. I added in some alternate lyrics on the second go around, just for fun.

I've heard this great song for years, but never sang it myself until a FL friend tipped me off to the show "Jersey Boys". Gotta see it one of these days! Perhaps they will come out with a filmed performance DVD at some point.

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[AmateisGal]

Listening to Frank Sinatra sing "Imagination" with Tommy Dorsey on my Sinatra Station on Pandora.

 

[Professor]

"Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"

Jelani Eddington and Rob Richards perform Richard Rodgers' "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" on the 5-manual Moller theatre pipe organ and 5-manual Walker digital theatre organ at Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

[YOUTUBE]<object width="980" height="765"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/7Y-irIq6Kc4&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/7Y-irIq6Kc4&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="980" height="765"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to try and remember what I wasn't supposed to forget by --

Starting off in 1939 with Count Basie and his Orchestra knocking off one of the big pop-tune hits of the year, with their version of "And The Angels Sing." No Ziggy Elman-style trumpet solos here, but a fine vocal by Helen Hunt.

Next, following a commercial for the new 1942 Lifebuoy-- Stop B. O.! Get 3 cakes today! -- it's back to 1930 with Noble Sissle and his Sizzling Syncopators and an ever-so-hotel-band rendition of "Confessin'." Noble Sissle himself croons the vocal, and somewhere deep within the flossy arrangement you'll find Eubie Blake on piano.

 

[Shangas]

Joe Venuti's Blue Five - "Doin' the Uptown Lowdown".

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to stare balefully into the bottom of an empty tea cup by --

Starting off in 1930 with the Havana Novelty Orchestra and an energetic maraca-shaking rendition of "Lady Play Your Mandolin." They must've recorded this late in the day on a Friday, because vocalist Paul Small very clearly says "Lady when you sing your song of sing" instead of "song of sin," and they just let it go. I'd love to hear the previous forty takes.

Next, ahead to 1937 with Reginald Forsythe and his Orchestra -- a fine British band that rarely gets acknowledged -- with a slow, hypnotic instrumental called "Lullaby." Just the thing to listen to when you can't understand why you're up this early.

 

[Fletch]

Next, ahead to 1937 with Reginald Forsythe and his Orchestra -- a fine British band that rarely gets acknowledged -- with a slow, hypnotic instrumental called "Lullaby."

One of my all-time favorites, with my all-time favorite alto sax man Toots Mondello on the melody.

Jazz in the 30s almost never approached the cool minimalist elegance of modern design. Foresythe did. His music creates an environment.

Hear Lullaby

 

[Mysterious Mose]

Forsythe's 'Garden of Weed(s)' is another beauty. Couldn't find it online.

 

[Adcurium]

Pandora radio

"Nat King Cole" station. It dials up Sinatra, Darin, Miller, etc.

 

[Fletch]

Forsythe's 'Garden of Weed(s)' is another beauty. Couldn't find it online.

It's at http://jazz-on-line.com - along with a lot of the links I post here. Search foresythe - there are 7 or 8 of his up there.

 

[Mysterious Mose]

That's it. Wonderful record.

 

[Fletch]

Is It Possible? - Ray Noble & Ork., 1939. His last Brunswick platter (the label was about to give up its hit artists to Columbia and become a reissue imprint for Decca). Light swinging Jimmy McHugh ditty with Larry Stewart's rich baritone and altogether too much riff repetition.

I Know You're Lying (But I Love It) - Coon-Sanders Ork., 1932. Their last record date of any kind. Snappy up-tune with plenty of verve - leaves you wondering what they'd have gotten up to if Coon had not died so suddenly, breaking up the band.

 

[Hepville]

Mike Sanchez:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB6Z8Wod984[/YOUTUBE]

I´m really looking forward his concert on 5th June in my area!

 

[Shangas]

I'm currently writing an article in my blog about the history of animated films, so I'm listening to, rather appropriately...

Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - "The Merry Go Round Broke Down".

This was the song that played at the start of several famous Warner Bros. cartoon shorts in the 40s and 50s.