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Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?

rocketeer

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Bit of an old Topic, but hey! Lets resurrect it :)
Anyone mention Harry Roy and his band? How about that old British TV series Pennies From heaven. Absolutely full of dance band era tunes from the 20s - 30s era. Al Bowley, Harry Roy, Jack jackson, Lew Stone and Henry Hall are just a few of the artists featured on the soundtrack.
A great drama serial that British TV did so well far superior to the Steve Martin film version.
 

Roland Cañamar

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Some of my favorites are:

Scrappy Lambert & Colonial Club Orchestra
Doc Cook and His 14 Doctors of Syncopation
Charleston Chasers
Abe Lyman's California Orchestra
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
Louis Armstrong
Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
Duke Yellman & His Orchestra
 

Studebaker Driver

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Though I'm not a heavy-duty fan of the Marx Brothers (I have to be in the right mood for their frantic pace), in their 1929 "The Cocoanuts" is one of my favorite song and dance numbers of all time. It is Irving Berlin's Monkey Doodle Doo and it drives me wild. Even though it was written in 1913, it enjoyed a surge in the mid-'20s and the movie version is, to me, the best. It is worth the price of the DVD just for the song and dance number.
 
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Helen Clark and Franklyn Baur -- A Little Bungalow (1926)
accompanied by Rosario Bourdon and the Victor Orchestra

This song was featured in the original 1925 stage show of The Cocoanuts but was replaced in the movie with When My Dreams Come True.

 

Merrill

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Looking for some good suggestions, post here what and who you think we should check out!
A couple of excellent films were shown by TCM on MLK Day: "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather". These were films with black casts and there were some greats among them, such as Cab Calloway, Lena Horne, Eddie Anderson, Bill Robinson. The scores and performances were just great in my opinion. Merrill
 

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