What are you listening to?

[jamespowers]

https://youtu.be/rV8HrpOu1FA

Prima was a hell of a performer. When animators use you as inspiration then you certainly have something.

 

[Bamaboots]

http://youtu.be/9OKtuaWkmA0
Edmonds when he was with the group Rockpile, which included Nick Lowe who was married for awhile to Carlene Carter, Johnny Cash's stepdaughter.

 

[Bamaboots]

jp, never thought I would get a Porky's reference from you.

 

[jamespowers]

jp, never thought I would get a Porky's reference from you.

Don't ask how I know.

 

[jamespowers]

http://youtu.be/9OKtuaWkmA0
Edmonds when he was with the group Rockpile, which included Nick Lowe who was married for awhile to Carlene Carter, Johnny Cash's stepdaughter.

I had forgotten about the Seconds of Pleasure album.

 

[Bamaboots]

I had forgotten about the Seconds of Pleasure album.

Everyday we speak, I am more encouraged. Soon you'll be drinking PBR. Well, maybe not.
They all did a couple of albums together but only one studio recording under the Rockpile name.

 

[HadleyH]

BAMBINA INNAMORATA - Carlo Buti 1937

[video=youtube;_Apyb6Q4YF8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Apyb6Q4YF8[/video]

 

[Harp]

Cubs vs Colorado Rockies, WBBM 78*AM :eusa_clap

 

[Touchofevil]

This afternoon, through the boomcase, The Wise Guyz, the Guana Batz, and Southern Culture
on the Skids.

 

[dh66]

This afternoon, through the boomcase, The Wise Guyz, the Guana Batz, and Southern Culture
on the Skids.

Good choices.

The Wise Guyz are one of my favorite new bands. I got hip to them a few years ago while living in Ukraine. As you might imagine, I was very pleasantly surprised to find stuff like that there.

https://youtu.be/U5r7ELhIB2w

 

[Bamaboots]

Well, since I just came home from a Cajun festival where a passable Zydeco band was playing, I felt it appropriate to post a really good Zydeco band, at least one of my favorites.
http://youtu.be/MH2eRRh4Bls

 

[ChiTownScion]

Listened to some Fibber McGee and Molly broadcasts from 1940 today. My honest opinion: they weren't all that funny.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Fibber and Molly were sort of like an old shoe. Part of their appeal was their comfortable corniness -- you knew you weren't going to get incisive satire or scintillating wit, but rather the sort of humor you might expect from your small-town Uncle Louie. Small-town listeners, especially, liked that.

Having just gotten home from work, I'm waiting for my baloney sandwich to digest while I listen to Bob Crosby and his Orchestra, broadcasting live from the Congress Hotel in Chicago "thru the remote control facilities of station WGN" on April 29th, 1940. Hot stuff.

 

[TimeWarpWife]

I love to listen to Fibber & Molly. You're right, Lizzie, there really is something comfortable about them, although every now and then they do have a bit that makes me chuckle out loud. With things so insane in the world we live in, it's nice to be able to go somewhere and for a half hour or so, revisit a simpler time.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Fibber and Molly were sort of like an old shoe. Part of their appeal was their comfortable corniness -- you knew you weren't going to get incisive satire or scintillating wit, but rather the sort of humor you might expect from your small-town Uncle Louie. Small-town listeners, especially, liked that.

Having just gotten home from work, I'm waiting for my baloney sandwich to digest while I listen to Bob Crosby and his Orchestra, broadcasting live from the Congress Hotel in Chicago "thru the remote control facilities of station WGN" on April 29th, 1940. Hot stuff.

And yet, for some reason, I enjoy the Great Gildersleeve, a spinoff series. Maybe it's the way he cackles, "Oh, Leroy..." I have a few friends with that name, and I like to adopt the voice in addressing them on occasion.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I think the real difference between Fibber and Gildersleeve is that the former was written by a cartoonist -- Don Quinn, whose comedy style emphasized broad, exaggerated characters -- while Gildy was written in a far more realistic vein. It really hit its stride in 1943, when John Whedon took over as head writer -- he made the town of Summerfield as much a character as Gildersleeve himself, and turned the series into a semi-serialized program stressing continuing storylines that allowed for much stronger character development.

There are very strong similarities between Summerfield and Andy Griffith's Mayberry -- and John Whedon is the connecting link, as he also wrote for the Griffith show in the early sixties. Whedon was, by the way, the father of Tom Whedon -- who wrote extensively for children's television in the sixties and seventies -- and the grandfather of Joss Whedon, who gave the world "Buffy The Vampire Slayer." The distance between Summerfield and Sunnydale is not at all far.

Gildersleeve's druggist, Mr. Peavey, never fails to crack me up. Our own local pharmacist, when I was growing up, was exactly like him.

 

[ChiTownScion]

BTW, Lizzie, I note your new end tag, from "Solidarity Forever."

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong.

Being 4th generation AFL (later, AFL-CIO), I love it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The IWW Songbook has an honored place on my pump organ.

 

[ChiTownScion]

The IWW Songbook has an honored place on my pump organ.

Hee hee. I'm chuckling, thinking about the time I was with a group after a Bible study, and picked up a guitar and started singing. They thought my words would be "In The Sweet Bye and Bye:" the jaws dropped as "The Preacher and the Slave" came out.

 

[Touchofevil]

Good choices.

The Wise Guyz are one of my favorite new bands. I got hip to them a few years ago while living in Ukraine. As you might imagine, I was very pleasantly surprised to find stuff like that there.

https://youtu.be/U5r7ELhIB2w

They are a lot of fun. I hope to one day see them, but will not hold my breath on that.
Right now, I am listening to Cracker's "King of Bakersfield." Earlier, it was a little bit of Gas Huffer and some Hank III.