Music to fill an ipod with

[chrismak]

I am looking to fill an ipod with music from the 30's and 40's. Any suggestions.

The more the merrier.. title.. artist.. or both will do.

 

[Fletch]

Go have a listen at http://jazz-on-line.com. Thank me later

 

[Amy Jeanne]

From my very own iPod:

Lee Wiley
Boswell Sisters
Billy Murray
Al Bowlly
Annette hanshaw
Ben Selvin
Bea Wain
Dorothy Lamour
Chick Bullock
Dick Powell
Duke Ellington
Harry Roy
Lucienne Boyer
Kate Smith
Jane Green
Ruth Etting
The Wallace Trio
Muggsy Spanier
Connee Boswell
Benny Goodman
Both Dorsey brothers
Ted Lewis
Ted Weems
Rudy Vallee

 

[skyvue]

Have a listen at http://CladriteRadio.com for lots of ideas.

And thank Fletch later.

 

[davidraphael]

British 1930s dancehall jazz bands (I mostly find them softer and dreamier than their US counterparts of the same period)
Ray Noble,
Al Bowlly,
Lew Stone,
Henry Hall,
Bert Ambrose,
Billy Cotton,
Jack Hylton,
Harry Roy
(A great compilation of the above is the 3-disk, 70-track set Pennies from Heaven - music from the BBC TV series)

French:
Django Reinhardt,
Stéphane Grappelli,

American:
Duke Ellington (his small group stuff from the 30s is great)
Fletcher Henderson
Teddy Wilson
Raymond Scott
Coleman Hawkins
Benny Goodman
Artie Shaw
Jan Garber
Art Tatum
Lionel Hampton
Hoagy Carmichael
Jimmie Lunceford
Earl Hines
Bunny Berigan
Eddie Lang

Naturally, many of the above didn't record albums as such - many just recorded 'sides' that were later compiled. The Chronogical Classic series is a good one that collates these recordings, but there are lots of compilations.

Nice compilations:
from Robert Crumb's collection: That's What I Call Sweet Music
Beethoven Wrote It... But It Swings - Swingin' Classics

Movie Soundtracks:
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Robin Hood / Captain Blood, etc.
Miklos Rozsa - Double Indemnity / Spellbound / The Lost Weekend, etc.
Max Steiner - King Kong / Casablanca / Gone with the Wind, etc
Franz Waxman - Rebecca / Suspicion / Bride of Frankenstein, etc
Cliffhangers - Music from the Republic serials


Interesting classical with jazz links:
Shostakovich - Jazz Suites
Stravinsky - Preludium for Jazz Band and Ebony Concerto for clarinet and jazz band (Benny Goodman was the 1st to record the latter)

Faithful recreations:
The Beau Hunks - Leroy Shields' music for the Laurel and Hardy shorts (I love this stuff!)

Way out there:
Charlie and his Orchestra - a Nazi-sponsored German propaganda swing band created by jazz-hating (in fact, everything-hating) propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels
The Caretaker - a contemporary IDM electronica artist who uses 1920s and 30s 78rpm records to create ambient, moody, spooky music-scapes.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"I Love to listen to old radio shows on long Plane/Train trips"

http://www.otrcat.com/

 

[Mark D]

On Sunday nights Rich Conaty does his "Big Broadcast" radio show on WFUV in New York. He streams it as well:

http://www.wfuv.org/programs/bigbroadcast

It's all music from the 20's through the 40's. He publishes his play lists too. If you like you can always record the streams so that you can listen to them on your ipod.

 

[Pompidou]

I like Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher." I also like Duke Ellington's "Caravan."