What are you listening to?

[Antje]

Louis Armstrong, Mack the knife

 

[Fletch]

The Frank Auburn Orchestra -- I Found a Million Dollar Baby

Of course you know Frank was really Ben Selvin. So were Buddy Campbell, Roy Carroll, Jerry Fenwyck, the Cloverdale Country Club Ork, and many another recording group.

Even some real leaders, like Eddie Droesch and Mickey Alpert, got their names swiped for use on Ben's sessions. Alpert's real-life band was unfortunate to be playing Boston's Coconut Grove the night it burned down in 1942, with almost 500 lives lost. Mickey and some of the band made it out; some did not.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

blasting Ella Fitzgerald singing "Its Too Darn Hot" on the way home in the commute traffic, from her Verve recording of Ella Sings the Cole Porter Songbook CDs. Perfectly suited for this heat wave we're having!

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

Eartha Kitt, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes".

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

A bit of bosa nova

Does jazz get any better than Getz?

 

[Fletch]

The best music is a moment in time that never gets old. Getz' bossa period was such a moment.

My mom & dad were young married people in Washington, DC, when a local DJ broke the bossa craze - for the whole country! - in 1961-'62. Crazy tho it sounds, Getz, Byrd, Jobim and that crowd, plus Camelot and just being young, made Washington an unbelievably romantic city in those years. They still feel that way about it.

 

[Aristaeus]

As you can tell from my new Avatar I am on a Harry James kick right now.
Trumpet Blues The Best of Harry James.

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

The best music is a moment in time that never gets old. Getz' bossa period was such a moment.

My mom & dad were young married people in Washington, DC, when a local DJ broke the bossa craze - for the whole country! - in 1961-'62. Crazy tho it sounds, Getz, Byrd, Jobim and that crowd, plus Camelot and just being young, made Washington an unbelievably romantic city in those years. They still feel that way about it.

You got that right Fletch. This album is timeless. I didn't know that it all started in Washington, but isn't it so cool that it created a lasting romantic connection with DC for your parents.

And noone makes The Girl From Ipanema sound sexy like Astrud Gilberto on this album.

 

[analiebe]

ah sir, it seems it was a bossa-nova kind of day...

Does jazz get any better than Getz?

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to try to remember what I was thinking of by --

First up, a Canadian Bluebird from 1933 by Bill Scott and his Orchestra, with the rhumba from "Dancing Lady," "Orchids In The Moonlight." Lee Sullivan is a credible substitute for Art Jarret on the vocal.

Next, from 1934, a Royal Blue Columbia featuring Little Jack Little and his Orchestra, and a tune that should be better known than it is, "Like Two Little Flies On A Lump Of Sugar," written by Irving and Sammy for the Warners' comic strip adaptation "Harold Teen." Jack Himself enunciates the vocal.

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

ah sir, it seems it was a bossa-nova kind of day...

Indeed analiebe. Inspired choice.

 

[Shangas]

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "Mood Indigo" (Rec. 1930).

 

[Fletch]

First up, a Canadian Bluebird from 1933 by Bill Scott and his Orchestra, with the rhumba from "Dancing Lady," "Orchids In The Moonlight." Lee Sullivan is a credible substitute for Art Jarret on the vocal.

Just in case anyone's local Bluebird dealer can't find it, it's actually Bill Scotti. But you knew that.

Isn't that the one where they play the verse (minor) about 5 times and the chorus only twice?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Just in case anyone's local Bluebird dealer can't find it, it's actually Bill Scotti. But you knew that.

Isn't that the one where they play the verse (minor) about 5 times and the chorus only twice?

Yep, that's the one. Found it in "La Marche du Disque," the late lamented record store off Square St. Louis in Montreal. Also found a bunch of English Parlophones by Geraldo and his Orchestra, and if I'd had just a little more cash on me I could have owned the 20-inch Pathe they were using as a wall decoration.

 

[AR Banjo]

The Shadow knows....

The Shadow on XM Radio Classics. Love this channel!

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to get ready to go see the eye doctor by ---

Now playing, it's 1932 with Bob Causer and his Cornellians -- yet another pseudonym for the A. R. C. house band featuring whatever first-rate jazzmen were hanging around looking for work that day -- and a great Chick Bullock vocal on "Ev'ryone Says I Love You," the Kalmar-Ruby tune from the Marx Brothers film "Horse Feathers." Zeppo's one big chance to make a hit record, but he never did it.

Next up, one of the unavoidable tunes from 1933, as rendered by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, with the Lombardo Trio vocalizing "Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore." Never trust a guy in a checkered suit, a fancy vest, and polka-dot tie.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

What A Wonderful World


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIRtSQdlozg

 

[chanteuseCarey]

This morning, Disc II of the Ella sings the Cole Porter Songbook double CD set on in the car. Singing some of the songs aloud while lap walking in the outdoor swimming pool at the YMCA.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

Last night, I shared my The Crown Syncopators CD "Ragtime Dance Party" with my YMCA Pilates class. The teacher and all the other students really enjoyed it. Kinda fun doing "the 100", ab crunches, and leg raises to 100+yo music...

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

Maria Elena, by Tony Pastor, on my Pandora station inspired by "Fools Rush In", "Take the A Train", and Django Reinhardt.