What are you listening to?

[BinkieBaumont]

"Dark Victory" Lux radio presentation staring Miss Bette Davis

"to be frightfully Honest darling, its rather more than a straight forward hangover"

 

[LizzieMaine]

John Gambling's Musical Gym Class, 12/22/37. Presented over WOR, New York by the Illinois Meat Company, makers of that fine Broadway Corned Beef. Morning calisthenics accompanied by a salon orchestra and a bevy of chirping canaries. All right ladies, ONE TWO THREE FOUR!

 

[campy]

Suite from the 1931 ballet Belkis, Queen of Sheba by Ottorino Respighi. From a Chandos CD by Geoffrey Simon &the Philharmonia Orchestra.

 

[Fletch]

John Gambling's Musical Gym Class, 12/22/37. Presented over WOR, New York by the Illinois Meat Company, makers of that fine Broadway Corned Beef. Morning calisthenics accompanied by a salon orchestra and a bevy of chirping canaries. All right ladies, ONE TWO THREE FOUR!

You better bend down, Sister, bend down, Sister...
Keep young and beautiful, it's your duty to be beautiful...
I don't want her, you can have her, she's too fat for me...
(just funning, that last one wasn't even written in 1937)

 

[campy]

Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde. The Saturday afternoon broadcast from Lyric Opera of Chicago on my local public radio station.

 

[Fletch]

OK, now that the thought of milady doing her daily dozen is out of my mind (wait, here it is again... ), I find the meatbox has segued into Mush Mouth, by Claude Hopkins and His Orchestra in 1932.
click to play
A satisfying proto-swing groove tune, it's an unusual Hopkins discing as it does not feature Claude's piano.
Listen to how the band subtly phrases over and around the downbeat - one of their characteristics.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Excuse me Mr Fletch, or anyone else, but how do you post film clips so they appear as an image rather than a hyperlink?

 

[Fletch]

Got me. I Google Image Searched a pic of the band and only then remembered that a 78 dub of Mush Mouth was on YouTube.

 

[Lady Day]

The Church

LOVE them.

LD

 

[John in Covina]

Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme "Black Hole Sun"

It is on you tube too.
http://raincoaster.com/2007/02/25/steve-lawrence-and-eydie-gorme-performing-black-hole-sun/

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Sapphires & Sables" Peter Yorke & his Orchestra
A highly respected composer, conductor and arranger, Yorke was well known in Britain through his hundreds of broadcasts, and his themes have been widely used on television and radio. In the 30s he was one of the finest dance band orchestrators in England, working with Percival Mackey, Jack Hylton, Louis Levy and many others. After World War II he established himself as a light music composer and conductor through BBC radio shows such as Sweet Serenade, Our Kind Of Music and The Peter Yorke Melody Hours

 

[Jack R.]

Time-Pink Floyd

 

[Shangas]

The American Quartet - "Chinatown, My Chinatown"

 

[anon`]

Epica - Cry For The Moon, live in Miskolc

 

[Antje]

Hammer Horror, by Kate Bush

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I'm sitting here dancing in my office chair listening to GI Jive!!

 

[John in Covina]

The Cotton Club Soundtrack CD!

Simply the best with coffee this morning.

 

[Fletch]

Eerily Prescient Moments in Pop Music History, vol. 1

Weary Blues, as played by the brand new Tommy Dorsey band in 1935.

In the last chorus, arranger Spud Murphy spontaneously invents the hard rock back beat, which was deemed useless and promptly forgotten for another 35 years.

 

[Shangas]

Art Tatum - "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm".

 

[High Pockets]

If you have 'music of your choice' on as your reading this, what are you listening to?
Stating random radio or background music is no good.

Indigo Swing Choo Choo Ch-Boogie