What are you listening to?

[VintageVixie]

I've been listening to Pandora's New Orleans/Classic jazz station. It's a good mix, although I also wish they'd have the two separate.

 

[HadleyH]

From my old cassette tape audio archives

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

What a great song! that's what the 1920s were all about! :eusa_clap
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I'm listening to Jack Hylton now, with the amazing Sam Browne in vocals, "Chasing Shadows" 1935 ... such a beautiful and sad song...

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[Bustercat]

Listening to the Zale/Graziano fight. Rocky! Rocky!

 

[littleblackcar]

Right now, it's the Everly Brothers. Yeah. Don't laugh. Okay, you're totally laughing. Sigh.

New, but off-beat:
Red Stick Ramblers: Cajun/swing/jazz/etc. These dudes are brilliant.
The Devil Makes Three: Um . . . jug-band revival? Kind of?
Hot Club of Cowtown: Like they've resurrected Les Paul and Mary Ford.
Wayne Hancock: Rockabilly/swing.
Balfa Toujours: Cajun
Lost Bayou Ramblers: Cajun
Slaid Cleaves: Folk-ish
Scott Biram: Country/blues/punk
Carolina Chocolate Drops: String-band
Marti Brom: Rockabilly

Old stuff:
The Carter Family, Hank Williams, Charline Arthur, Scott Joplin, Cab Calloway, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, lots of old country and string-band stuff.

Normal music:
Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Cowboy Junkies, Johnny Cash, Randy Travis,

 

[Nik Taylor]

These Foolish Things -- Billie Holiday 1936

In 1936 Billie was musically matched with trumpeter Jonah Jones and leader pianist Teddy Wilson arranged an incredible recording session also with alto-saxophonist Johnny Hodges and Harry Carney on clarinet and here on baritone sax with Lawrence Lucie guitar, John Kirby bass and Cozy Cole drums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0Bn_H4C3M&feature=grec_browse

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[Rundquist]

Nick Lowe is coming to the states in the fall. What an elegant songwriter. One of the all time greats.

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[DigThatBeat]

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[Wally_Hood]

I Love a Mystery, The Million Dollar Curse. Real good stuff.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Singing along with Mrs Banks

"Sing-a-long with Mrs Banks"

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[Mario]

With all those 78s here I always have to think of what Richard Thompson had to say about them.

Jimmy Shand
------------

When the party hit full swing
I saw you come reeling in
You had that six-pack in a stranglehold
Now you stagger, now you sway
Why don't you fall the other way
'Cause I've got something here worth more than gold

I said "Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
They don't mend with sticky tape and glue
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
And that's my very best advice to you"

Call me precious, I don't mind
78s are hard to find
You just can't get the shellac since the war
This one's the Beltona brand
Finest label in the land
They don't make them like that anymore

I said "Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Unless you want to wind up black and blue
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
And that's my very best advice to you"

Darling though you're twice my size
I don't mean to patronize
Honey let me lead you by the hand
Find a lap or find a chair
You can park it anywhere
Just don't rest your cheeks against my man

I said "Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
They don't mend with sticky tape and glue
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
And that's my very best advice to you"

No shindig is half complete
Without that famous polka beat
That's why they invite me, I suppose
Waltzes, strathspeys, eights, some reels
Now you know how good it feels
Crank that handle babe, away she goes

I said "Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Unless you want to wind up black and blue"
I said "Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
That's my very best advice to you"

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to listen to over a freshly-tuned up radio --

Starting out in 1936 with Benny Goodman and his Orchestra with Helen Ward on the vocal for one of the definitive records of the mid-thirties. If you're making a movie set in 1936, and you want to instantly establish a sense of the era, you can't do better than to drop a few seconds of "This Year's Kisses" onto the soundtrack.

Next, back a year to 1935 and Harry Roy and his Orchestra with Harry, Bill Currie, and Ivor Moreton trio-izing the vocal on "Lullaby of Broadway." I say, don't you chaps mean "Piccadilly?"

 

[Nik Taylor]

Al Bowlly - Considering


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCVahbdHRuA&feature=grec_browse

 

[vitanola]

"The Three Twins-Selection'

Played from a 65 note roll on the Themodist-Metrostyle Pianola.

"The Three Twins" was a great sensation in '08, and made the career of Bessie McCoy, the "Yama-Yama Girl" (who later had a great career as a serial wife, marrying several wealthy men including Richard Harding Davis.), and introduced the hit songs "The Yama-Yama Man" and "Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine".

Here is an Victor recording of "Yama-Yama" as sung by Miss Ada Jones, with chorus:

http://ia341308.us.archive.org/0/it...hVictorLightOperaCompany-TheYamaYamaMan_2.mp3

 

[Fletch]

1935 and Harry Roy and his Orchestra with Harry, Bill Currie, and Ivor Moreton trio-izing the vocal on "Lullaby of Broadway." I say, don't you chaps mean "Piccadilly?"

There's a famous thoroughfare, I've heard collegiates say
I'm not referrin' to Piccadilly
It's not Forty-second Street, it's not the Rue de la Paix
Nor is it Market Street in Philly
Ask most any college Romeo
To complete your education, you must go...

Down the Old Ox Road - Bing Crosby with Jimmie Grier's Ork., 1933
(from the picture "College Humor")

It could be in the movies, in the very back row.

 

[DigThatBeat]

Brian Setzer's "Rebelene", I found this single at a thrift store today.

 

[Chas]

Lots of respect to my brothers and sisters in the FL who are fans of the Hawk, but the Prez is my greatest tenor.

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[BinkieBaumont]

Jungle Book Soundtrack

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IT IS WORTH LOOKING FOR!!!!


Louis Prima AND Phil Harris

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[Tenuki]

Mahagonny Bill and I spent the weekend in Yakima (Eastern WA). We needed music this morning and Bill had a file of Ken Wiley's "The Art of Jazz" on his phone. Playing the file through the wee phone speaker, it sounded like a transistor radio.

Clever boy, that one.:eusa_clap

 

[Fletch]

I was spinning an mp3 of the "Vintage Jazz" program from KBCC, Bellevue College (WA), the other day driving out here. Good selection of strictly '20s foxtrottia, Ben Selvin, Little Ramblers, Charleston Chasers and the like, with the traditional monotone-mumbling d.j.

 

[Rundquist]

With all those 78s here I always have to think of what Richard Thompson had to say about them.

Jimmy Shand
------------

When the party hit full swing
I saw you come reeling in
You had that six-pack in a stranglehold
Now you stagger, now you sway
Why don't you fall the other way
'Cause I've got something here worth more than gold

I said "Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
They don't mend with sticky tape and glue
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
And that's my very best advice to you"

Call me precious, I don't mind
78s are hard to find
You just can't get the shellac since the war
This one's the Beltona brand
Finest label in the land
They don't make them like that anymore

I said "Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Unless you want to wind up black and blue
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
And that's my very best advice to you"

Darling though you're twice my size
I don't mean to patronize
Honey let me lead you by the hand
Find a lap or find a chair
You can park it anywhere
Just don't rest your cheeks against my man

I said "Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
They don't mend with sticky tape and glue
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
And that's my very best advice to you"

No shindig is half complete
Without that famous polka beat
That's why they invite me, I suppose
Waltzes, strathspeys, eights, some reels
Now you know how good it feels
Crank that handle babe, away she goes

I said "Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Unless you want to wind up black and blue"
I said "Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
Don't sit on my Jimmy Shands
That's my very best advice to you"

Great song off a great record.