What are you listening to?

[TidiousTed]

[video=youtube;V_nNNIYTy9g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_nNNIYTy9g[/video]

This is what "Hound Dog" sounds like when sung by the lady it was written for

 

[TidiousTed]

I really like this guy's music

[video=youtube;m_eP2TNKkNI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_eP2TNKkNI[/video]

 

[TidiousTed]

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

Alice Babs - After You've Gone, 1963

 

[DNO]

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Excellent.

[video=youtube;EWsWFjO9MlE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWsWFjO9MlE&feature=related[/video]

 

[Shangas]

Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians performing "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen", in 1938:

[video=youtube;nq8k4H0tYU8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq8k4H0tYU8[/video]

 

[Connery]

Aretha Franklin - Until You Come Back to Me
Written by Stevie Wonder, Morris Broadnax, and Clarence Paul
[video=youtube;pggNbtCivBo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pggNbtCivBo[/video]

Stevie Wonder "My Cherie Amour"
[video=youtube;L8A9oyPXD7E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8A9oyPXD7E&feature=related[/video]

 

[rue]

Lena

[video=youtube_share;sK9wG6KBcqE]http://youtu.be/sK9wG6KBcqE[/video]

[video=youtube_share;FnRSM3dLSTk]http://youtu.be/FnRSM3dLSTk[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

A medley from the opening sequence of Glorifying the American Girl (1929)

[video=youtube;zbJpFs4Fj7U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbJpFs4Fj7U&NR=1[/video]

 

[Connery]

Al Bowlly With Ray Noble - Test Pressing (26/6/1931)
[video=youtube;1yBpRg0BpJU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yBpRg0BpJU&feature=related[/video]

 

[rue]

Great picks V.C. and Connery!!

 

[Nanny Ogg]

Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians performing "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen", in 1938:

[video=youtube;nq8k4H0tYU8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq8k4H0tYU8[/video]

Great! This song will always associate it with the dance of Robert Sean Leonard in the movie Swing Kids.
[video=youtube;XxsHcslu2D8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxsHcslu2D8&feature=related[/video]

 

[rue]

^ such a great but sad movie.....

 

[Kishtu]

NO external music source in my office, but woke up (to Hairy Bloke's exasperation) with "Be Like the Kettle and Sing" in my head....

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Great! This song will always associate it with the dance of Robert Sean Leonard in the movie Swing Kids.
[video=youtube;XxsHcslu2D8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxsHcslu2D8&feature=related[/video]

Some examples of German Swing:

Michael Jary (1939)
[video=youtube;OS_3fNZW6ps]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS_3fNZW6ps[/video]

Erhard Bauschke (1941)
[video=youtube;iM_0IhIyRxY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM_0IhIyRxY&feature=related[/video]

Willy Berking (1942)
[video=youtube;d2kNEot0bwc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2kNEot0bwc[/video]

 

[Shangas]

"Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" is one of my favourite songs.

I feel it's such a pity that it was destroyed by the Nazis. The moment they found out it was written and composed by JEWS!!!...They banned it throughout Germany. And there was also a serious crackdown on swing-jazz.

If you want a really hot version with a German flare, try the cover by Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester:

[video=youtube;KuNkwmNdv90]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuNkwmNdv90[/video]

This bopping, toe-tapping rendition really got me into the song and it's one of my favourites now.

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Listening to...

Max Raabe and His Palast Orchester - "Heute Nacht oder Nie" ("Tonight, or Never"), from 1932. A beautiful song, even if I did fail at German in school.

...now listening to the same, performing "Ich Brauche Keine Millionen" (aka "Musik! Musik! Musik!")

 

[Blackjack]

[video=youtube;WfNzQeRZ8Jc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfNzQeRZ8Jc[/video]

 

[DesertDan]

Govt Mule - Dose

 

[rue]

[video=youtube_share;BAIdvJ-EW-Y]http://youtu.be/BAIdvJ-EW-Y[/video]

[video=youtube_share;bnQQcmBPKic]http://youtu.be/bnQQcmBPKic[/video]

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

[video=youtube_share;bnQQcmBPKic]http://youtu.be/bnQQcmBPKic[/video]

That whole entire album from which this track came is fun. Juicy, updated 1950's-style rock'n'roll-meets-R&B instrumentation & arrangements by Quicy Jones, with a top-notch band. I usually don't like later re-recordings by artists, but these are pretty good, and different. The name of the iTunes compilation album is "Rock, Doc", and the name of the original vinyl LP if you want to go that route as I did (not terribly hard to find) is "Somebody Up There Digs Me".

If you love 1950's-style jump-blues R&B/rock'n'roll, you should give it a listen.

Another representative track from those sessions, below; his re-recording of Caledonia... Of course, nothing will match his Decca originals, but this is a Very Solid Album on its own terms.

- CH

[video=youtube_share;bnnN8Ycsk_Y]http://youtu.be/bnnN8Ycsk_Y[/video]

 

[rue]

Thank you for the info!! I do like it