What are you listening to?

[V.C. Brunswick]

Tito Schipa -- Vivere! (To Live!) (1937)

This song must have been an immense hit because there's so many versions of it, including an English version called Romany that was recorded by Al Bowlly

[video=youtube;6cUUopdmtDk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cUUopdmtDk[/video]

Tito Schipa -- Vivere! (French version) (1938)
(my favorite version)

[video=youtube;hPsnb-1FNp8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPsnb-1FNp8&feature=watch-response[/video]

Lyrics (Translation)
What a magnificent day
What a day to celebrate
My girl has left me
I'm free at last

I've got my life back
And I intend to enjoy it
When she left
She said she wouldn't come back

To live without misery
To live without jealousy
With no regrets
Or concern about love

I can enjoy the flowers
Enjoy life
And still my feelings

Laugh and be happy
Laugh at this foolish world
Live while I'm still young
Life is beautiful and I want to live more of it

Women want you to act in the Comedy of Love
They want you to be the romantic lead
But when the curtain comes down in Act III
The reality is that her romantic drama is a farce

To live even if you feel a little nostalgic
I'm not bitter anymore
I'm happy for her new lover
To live while I'm young because life is beautiful

 

[Rundquist]

Lale Andersen -- Lili Marlene (1939)

[video=youtube;-QBiBltfWEI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QBiBltfWEI&feature=related[/video]

Here's a varient of Lili Marlene called "The D-day Dodgers". It's a bit of sarcastic fun, though I'm sure that the circumstances that produced it were anything but.


[video=youtube;kBaAja7VmOo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBaAja7VmOo[/video]

Here's a link to its background.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_Dodgers

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to chip the ice off the windows by --

Starting off in 1939 with Dick Jurgens and his Orchestra doing their best Kay Kyser imitation on "Ragtime Cowboy Joe," with a comic vocal by Eddy Howard. The sound of hoofbeats at the start seems to be created by knocking a ping-pong ball back and forth, perhaps the only such solo ever recorded.

Next, it's 1936 with Music In The Russ Morgan Manner, as Bernice Park offers "Fancy Meeting You," also known as "The Evolution Song" except in certain states.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Last night -- New Kids On The Block then some Al Bowlly before bed. Now New Kids On The Block again. lol I'm preserving old VHS tapes to DVD, hence why NKOTB.

 

[Harp]

"The Score" 670*AM---Chicago Bears fix.

Tomorrow, the Bears stop the Packers run game; force R's arm;
Cutler stays cool, calm, and hopefully collected; Bears run it for paydirt.
Occasional Cut air strike. And da Bears meet the Pack for an ice cold
freezing snot nose, smash mouth knockdown dragout kickass game.
This is the most important game of the season. :rapture::laser::cheer2::boxing::fencing:ray2::amen::smow::loco:

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Aaron Rodgers, who art in Lambeau, Hallowed be thine arm. Thy bowl will come, it will be won, in Dallas as it was in Lambeau. Give us this Sunday our weekly win and forgive the less-passers as you will not let them pass against us. Lead us not into frustration, but deliver us from Bears. For thine is the MVP, the best of the NFC, and... the glory of the Cheeseheads, now and forever. Go get'em. Amen.

"The Score" 670*AM---Chicago Bears fix.

Tomorrow, the Bears stop the Packers run game; force R's arm;
Cutler stays cool, calm, and hopefully collected; Bears run it for paydirt.
Occasional Cut air strike. And da Bears meet the Pack for an ice cold
freezing snot nose, smash mouth knockdown dragout kickass game.
This is the most important game of the season. :rapture::laser::cheer2::boxing::fencing:ray2::amen::smow::loco:

 

[Berlin]

[video=youtube;W2f1G7qCSm8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2f1G7qCSm8&[/video]

 

[martinsantos]

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap

love his works.

[video=youtube;W2f1G7qCSm8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2f1G7qCSm8&[/video]

 

[Kahuna]

Casey McGill's Blue 4 Trio - Hatchet Man
[video=youtube;VDpYJHWgYzE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDpYJHWgYzE[/video]

 

[Harp]

Aaron Rodgers, who art in Lambeau, Hallowed be thine arm. Lead us not into frustration, but deliver us from Bears.

:eusa_clap

Mozart, Fantasy in C Minor, K. 396

 

[subject101]

What are you listening to?

Right now Harlem on parade by Anita O'Day. Next, Shady lady bird by Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman orchestra. This song takes me to a hangar dance. Little Jack Frost get lost by Frankie Carle -lets forget christmas. Stranger in paradise by Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains, best elevator song ever Dream by the Pied Pipers, I love it but for me this song is totally psychopathic, I didn't live the golden era. Some sisters stuff, Bei mir bist du schon and Gimme some skin my friend by the Andrews, Everybody loves my baby and Shout sister shout by the Boswells. The former is like riding with Bonny during the 20s, the latter is a piece of art. Brazil by the Dinning Sisters. This one is very sticky. Then La mer by Django Reinhardt, superb guitar work but I always have to listen the cover by Bobby Darin next so I better stop here

 

[WineGuy]

Jazz Rules!

Since I'm in my wine shop six days a week I'm always listening to Jazz that I have streaming to the store speakers from Pandora. I set up a Charlie Parker station which plays his works as well as all his peers. Sunday mornings when i get to give my self a good long straight razor hot towel shave I listen to a playlist on my iphone that has everything from Yo Yo Ma solos to Coop! Ahh...only 26 hours to go!

 

[Fletch]

Heebie Jeebies - Boswell Sisters w/Orch., 1931. I suppose it's the Dorsey Bros., who were on about 8 out of 10 records then, anyway. The girls kind of have to yell over the polyphony, but it all swings.

The Grass Is Getting Greener (All the Time) - Victor Young & Orch., 1933. Chick Bullock, whom I always picture wearing a bowler at a jaunty angle and a fur-collared coat, sings about the weather man and Things Looking Up. This turned up on a CD of "depression songs," but it's not one, at least not lyrically speaking.

Happy Days Are Here Again - Ambrose & Orch., 1930. This might be the best rendition of all, with that kicking rhythm section, and big tones and hard hitting attack from all the boys. You almost believe happy days are here again, 81 years later.

 

[dhermann1]

The suite from "Laura", by David Raksin. A wonderful 35 minute suite of the music from the great classic film "Laura", 1944, that starred Gene Tierney. Absolutely entrancing. On WQXR.

 

[kools]

I'm listening to Buck Clayton 1945-1947. The 1945 tracks featuring Slam Stewart!

 

[DavidVillaJr]

Right now, 7pm (really 6:59 pm) PST on Saturday January 22, 2011

Art Pepper playing clarinet (and just KILLING) on "Blues in the Night" from The Art of the Ballad CD I've had for a while.

KILLING!!!!!


dv

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

...it's three minutes to 1930!

And I'm listening to The Don Lee New Year's Eve Party on one of my old cassette tapes. Unfortunately I know very little about this recording. My guess is that it was a transcription recording for broadcast as Don Lee was a West Coast broadcaster who owned radio stations in San Francisco and L.A. It was probably recorded in San Francisco utilizing the talents of cast of the popular Golden State Blue Monday Jamboree radio show that was broadcast from Don Lee's flagship station there. At the time the musical director for the show was none other than Meredith Wilson of The Music Man fame and the cast included Jane Green, though I don't recognize her voice on the recording.

 

[Berlin]

Dean Martin - Sway

 

[HadleyH]

Classic Hylton!
Across the pond, vocalist Pat O'Malley right up there with Al Bowlly and Sam Browne! :eusa_clap


[video=youtube;DBtjtGce3Oo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBtjtGce3Oo[/video]

Jack Hylton Orchestra

 

[LizzieMaine]

...it's three minutes to 1930!

And I'm listening to The Don Lee New Year's Eve Party on one of my old cassette tapes. Unfortunately I know very little about this recording. My guess is that it was a transcription recording for broadcast as Don Lee was a West Coast broadcaster who owned radio stations in San Francisco and L.A. It was probably recorded in San Francisco utilizing the talents of cast of the popular Golden State Blue Monday Jamboree radio show that was broadcast from Don Lee's flagship station there. At the time the musical director for the show was none other than Meredith Wilson of The Music Man fame and the cast included Jane Green, though I don't recognize her voice on the recording.

Not an actual broadcast -- it's a special souvenir recording made at the Brunswick studio in Los Angeles on December 2, 1929 as a Christmas gift for Don Lee network sponsors and staff. One side of the record has Christmas greetings, the other the simulated "New Years Eve" broadcast. On both sides, members of the KHJ staff perform quick samples of their specialties.

Those appearing on the New Year's recording are, in order, announcer Howard Griffin, the KHJ Orchestra directed by Leigh Harline, vocalist Jane Parker, the Four Boys, Leigh Harline himself, Elvia Allman, and Charlie Wellman.