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Your must play list??

Badluck Brody

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OK kids.............

If you choose to accept this mission....... Make a list of golden era songs or even songs that have that vintage feeling... What would they be??

This can include both Music and also Movie or TV themes...

This message will self distruct in..... aaah what ever!

Good luck and have fun!
 

Snookie

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Well, it's not as fun as iTunes, where you can hear clips, but here's some songs off my "Vintage Lifestyle" playlist, specifically chosen for the mood and "vintage sound".

Mostly vintage recordings, for this category I really like recordings that aren't too clean; some pops and crackles have a nice effect.

Swingtime in the Rockies - Benny Goodman
Honeysuckle Rose - Django Reinhardt
Swing Brother Swing - Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five featuring Hilary Alexander
You're Just My Type - Vince Giordano's Nighthawks
Mr. Ghost Goes To Town - Mora's Modern Rhythmists
Let's Dance - Benny Goodman
Any Old Time, With Billie Holiday - Artie Shaw
You Can Depend On Me - Fletcher Henderson
Sing Me A Swing Song - Ella Fitzgerald
I Would Do Anything For You - Benny Goodman & The Rhythm Makers
Swingin' At The Famous Door - Roy Eldridge
When I Get Low, I Get High - Ella Fitzgerald
And The Angels Sing - Benny Goodman
All Or Nothing At All - Harry James And His Orchestra Featuring Frank Sinatra
I've Found A New Baby - Django Reinhardt

And the whole "Count Basie: The Golden Years" album.
 

MB5

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Smile at Me Baby-Unknown artist, but from Call of Cthulhu. It reminds me of something that would be in Rube's (Dead Like Me) record collection.

Ma (She's Making Eyes at Me)-Happy Harry and his "Two Beat" Six, and pretty much the whole Roaring 20s Album. I found it in a thrift shop and the clerk looked at me like I was crazy when I bought it.
 
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killertomata

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Must haves on the playlist... these always end up on the basic selection.

It Don't Mean a Thing - Billy Banks or Duke Ellington version
Sing, Sing, Sing - Benny Goodman
Blues in the Night - Artie Shaw or Cab Calloway
Sno Qualimie Jo jo - Bing Crosby
Abraham - Mel Torme/ Chico Marx Orchestra
Drum Boogie - Gene Krupa
There'll Be Some Changes Made - Gene Krupa
Quoth the Raven - Ella Mae Morse
Cow Cow Boogie - Connie Haines
Yes, my Darling Daughter - Glenn Miller Orchestra
Bei mir bist Du sch??n - Janis Siegel or Andrews Sisters
Suicide Blues - Arthur Collins
I'se Muggin' - Django
My First Edition - Sinatra and Connie Haines
Tar Paper Stomp - Wingy Manone
Murder, he says - Betty Hutton
Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
Swingin' at the Seance - Glenn Miller

Add some Royal Crown Revue, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Brian Setzer Orchestra, and I'm good to go.
 

deadpandiva

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Tess' Torch Song-Dinah Shore
One Girl and Two Boys (Undecided)-Marilyn Maxwell
Ice Cold Katie-Hattie McDaniel
Darn That Dream-?
High How The Moon-Ella Fitzgerald
Bargin Day-Tony Pasture with Rosemary Clooney
Joseph, Joseph-The Andrews Sisters
It's Funny-Dinah Washington
I'm An Old Jitterbug-Virginia O'Brien
Two In A Taxi-Virginia O'Brien
Never Gonna Dance-Fred Astair
The Young Man With A Horn-Harry James
No Love, No Nothing-?
Saint Louis Woman-Bessie Smith
Speak Low-by who ever dubbed it for Ava Gardner
 
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killertomata

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deadpandiva said:
High How The Moon-Ella Fitzgerald

Oh! That is such a great choice! I love How High the Moon, and hers just rocks. But then it's Ella, and I've not heard her do wrong, not ever.
 

Snookie

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Okay, so I just bought I'm An Old Jitterbug-Virginia O'Brien(new discovery for me!), and found a Glenn Miller version of Speak Low to in my library to add to my Vintage Lifestyle playlist. Great stuff!

I also love Never Gonna Dance. That scene in Swing Time is my personal "most romantic movie scene".

Ella Mae Morse! Of Course! How about "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet" - doesn't get more vintage than that!
 

deadpandiva

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Snookie said:
Okay, so I just bought I'm An Old Jitterbug-Virginia O'Brien(new discovery for me!), and found a Glenn Miller version of Speak Low to in my library to add to my Vintage Lifestyle playlist. Great stuff!

I also love Never Gonna Dance. That scene in Swing Time is my personal "most romantic movie scene".

Ella Mae Morse! Of Course! How about "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet" - doesn't get more vintage than that!
What'd you thin of Virginia? I'm an old Jitterbug is quite date but I just love it. It takes me to another time and place and I love the music. It makes me wish I could dance.

I agree about Never Gonna Dance. The body language and spoken language in that scene is great.
 

deadpandiva

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Miss Brill said:
Nah. I don't think you can miss out on something you don't enjoy. Music is generational, like a generation's diary. Music is very intimate.
I agree but I think music from every Generation has something to offer. I like music from the 1600's or earlier to music being made now.
 

HadleyH

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Badluck Brody said:
Make a list of golden era songs or even songs that have that vintage feeling... What would they be??

The list would be HUUUUUUUUUUUGE..... that's a very difficult task really!

Let's say that in my case, 80% of popular songs from the late 20s and 30s would be included! :eek: :D
 

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