What are you listening to?

[BinkieBaumont]

"Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra

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[Chas]

Big Jay McNeely.

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[LizzieMaine]

Spending the morning transferring some radio programs --

Currently working on Fred Allen's "Town Hall Tonight" for 3/2/36. One of Fred's guests is a talking minah bird who steadfastly refuses to talk. "We had Jack Benny here last week, and *he* talked," sniffs Mr. Allen derisively. Coming up, the "Town Hall Amateurs" segment hosts a program of "all colored talent from Harlem," including a very talented young blues singer who offers a powerful rendition of "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child," followed immediately by an outrageous comedy quartet swinging "Momma Don't Allow," and a Harlan Lattimore-like romantic crooner performing "Alone." There was something for everyone on these early Allen shows, yet another example of how the mid-thirties were radio's true Golden Age.

 

[HadleyH]

1928 "Baby" Guy Lombardo's .... another nice , simple song from the 20s... nothing complicated, just sit back and enjoy, may be even dance? may be not.





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[V.C. Brunswick]

Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra -- I Want To See A Little More Of What I Saw (1926)
Brunswick 3026

Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra -- The Stampede (1926)
Columbia 654-D

 

[Nik Taylor]

Katie Melua - Mary Pickford

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[Lenore]

Currently introducing my two year old daughter to BBVD. She's enthralled.

One can only take soo much Wheels on the Bus.

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[LizzieMaine]

78s to fix an oscillator that refuses to oscillate by --

Now playing, another great tune from "Pins and Needles" on a rare red-label Decca from 1938, as those young lefties in love, Kay Weber and Sonny Schuyler, give us "One Big Union For Two." "There'll be no lockouts to get us down, no scabbing when you're out of town..."

Next, the other side of the same record, as another Brooklyn factory hand, young Millie Weitz, gives us "Nobody Makes A Pass At Me," the lament of a young gal who uses all the best nationally-advertised products but bafflingly remains a wallflower. "I use Lifebuoy soap and Flit, so why ain't I got 'it'?"

Lyricist Harold J. Rome was, without doubt, the CIO's answer to Cole Porter.

 

[JazzyDame]

"If I Had You", performed by jazz pianist/chanteuse Diana Krall.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

From my old cassette tape audio archives:

Howard Lanin's Benjamin Franklin Hotel Orchestra -- Melancholy Lou (1925)

and the flip side:

Howard Lanin's Benjamin Franklin Hotel Orchestra -- Don't Wake Me Up, Let Me Dream (1925)

Here's Howard's bro Sam a few years later:

Hit of the Week Orchestra -- Pardon Me Pretty Baby (circa 1931)
(introducing Tell Me Pretty Maiden)

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I've been enjoying my vast 8-track collection the past few days.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to just about drown breathing this sodden air by --

Now playing, it's 1933 with Roy Bargy and Ramona, twin pianists from the Whiteman Ensemble, teaming up on a rollicking Depression number, "Raisin' The Rent." Lucky me, I just signed a new lease with no increase.

Next, following a commercial for Ironized Yeast -- "It wouldn't surprise me if their marriage broke up, she's so thin and miserable!" -- it's Walter O'Keefe, the Broadway Hillbilly, and his definitive double-sided recording of "The Man On The Flying Trapeze," one of the big hits of the pseudo-gay-'90s fad that swept the country in 1933-34. "Pur-loin-ed?"

 

[Forgotten Man]

Darn, I wish I was over there... good taste in music as always!


Right now I'm enjoying the sound of silence after a very loud and obnoxious morning of gardening tools, garbage trucks and our neighbor down the street's rooster that crows as the day is long.:eusa_doh:

 

[Chas]

Teddy Wilson and his piano, On Columbia. "Them There Eyes"

Art Tatum on Decca - "Sweet Lorraine" 1938. Just picked up three mint/near mint album sets of Art Tatum.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, The Cui Bono Matter

 

[yanika]

I am listening back street boys songs. This is my favorite Band.

 

[John in Covina]

I have been listening to a couple of Swing compelations as music to clean house by. One song that i had not heard til i got a recent CD was "Drum Boogie" done by Gene Krupa and band, it has those "dangerous" horn parts that just get me all hopped up.lol

 

[Rundquist]

I have been listening to a couple of Swing compelations as music to clean house by. One song that i had not heard til i got a recent CD was "Drum Boogie" done by Gene Krupa and band, it has those "dangerous" horn parts that just get me all hopped up.lol

I think that was his unofficial theme. He's recorded it many times. I'm by no means a completist, and even I have two recordings of it, and both were later recordings (50's). I'm sure he probably cut the original in the 40's. It's a great tune. I even have Benny Golson doing it (now that I look), off of his "Groovin' With Golson" record, complete with Curtis Fuller on it. I first heard it on the Buddy Rich/Gene Krupa "Drum Battle at JATP" record. The other Krupa record that I have it on is "Big Noise from Winnetka".

 

[JazzyDame]

I have been listening to a couple of Swing compelations as music to clean house by. One song that i had not heard til i got a recent CD was "Drum Boogie" done by Gene Krupa and band, it has those "dangerous" horn parts that just get me all hopped up.lol

“Drum Boogie” is one of my favorites! I have it on a CD titled Drum Battle: Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich at JATP. Gene Krupa was supreme in his drumming ability…got a favorite by Gene? Mine’s the high-spirited classic, “Sing, Sing, Sing!”, where Krupa beats his heart out and Benny Goodman blows his licorice stick as only he can, in the most beguiling manner.

“Dangerous horns”…nice descriptive. I’ll have to play this as my Friday night house-cleaning soundtrack.

 

[Rundquist]

Tom Waits - "Brother Can you Spare a Dime?" :whip:

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Ray Anderson is one of those really unappreciated artists. It’s not enough that he invented his own style of trombone playing. His singing is incredible.

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